1/10/2024
Legislative Analyst Office confirms climate change policies and related costs disproportionately burden lower-income people.
3/2/2023
LA TIMES: Opinion: How California came to treat UC Berkeley students’ ‘noise’ as a dire environmental threat
BY JENNIFER HERNANDEZ, ROBERT APODACA
In an era of upheaval and protest at People’s Park and across the country, UC Berkeley admitted its first significant wave of Chicano students in response to student pressure in 1969. Even then, the university had a housing shortage, prompting a successful effort to acquire a house near campus for the Chicano student community in the early ’70s. Half a century later, Casa Joaquin Murrieta continues to provide affordable student housing for about 40 Berkeley students.
The California Environmental Quality Act, enacted soon after the house was founded, would have killed the project before it started, depriving thousands of college students of affordable, stable, proximate campus housing. We know because that’s what it’s doing today, most recently in the form of a court ruling blocking the university’s effort to build sorely needed housing in People’s Park.
12/14/2022
CARB LAWSUIT
CARB admits the economic impact in its final Scoping Plan shortly before approval: poor households (mostly POC) will be poorer and wealthier white households will be richer. Housing crisis gets worse and access to affordable car ownership (a civil right) is denied.