Help End Exclusionary Zoning in Oakland!
Oakland City Council
Join the Housing Action Coalition (HAC) and YIMBY Action, East Bay in urging Oakland's City Council to support ending exclusionary zoning!
Single-family home zoning was established to maintain segregation in the Bay Area, and momentum is growing to undo this historical injustice through zoning reform. Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan introduced a resolution to study legalizing fourplexes across the city, especially in high resource areas, and to find options for protecting tenants from displacement. In doing so, Oakland joined Sacramento, Berkeley, South San Francisco, and San Jose in taking the first step toward ending exclusionary zoning.
Legalizing multi-family housing also represents a major step toward solving our severe housing shortage and affordability crisis, the impact of which falls disproportionately on communities of color, by allowing more affordable housing to be built more widely.
Oakland's policymakers have the opportunity to create equity in our land use policies and move toward solving our region's housing shortage. And we need you to urge them to do so!
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Oakland City Council
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[Your Name]
I strongly support putting an end to Oakland’s woefully outdated and exclusionary zoning laws and urge you to reform zoning laws to allow for building four-plex homes throughout the city. As you well know, single-family home only zoning was intentionally designed to perpetuate racial segregation. Today, it continues to deny communities of color equal access to housing, education, and employment opportunities, as well as public amenities. By changing these longstanding policies of exclusion, Oakland can begin to right these wrongs.
Legalizing multi-family housing will also go a long way toward solving our severe housing shortage and affordability crisis, the impact of which falls disproportionately on communities of color, by allowing more affordable housing to be built more widely.
Looking at all the ways outdated, exclusionary zoning laws perpetuate race and class discrimination, and exacerbate the housing shortage and affordability crisis, it’s clear to see why Oakland must do away with its antiquated and detrimental laws. I urge you to enact zoning reform without delay so Oakland can make good on its inclusive values.