The CASA Compact calls for new state laws to boost protections for tenants, increase apartment construction near transit and help raise more than $1 billion to build low-income housing, among other things. Bay Area legislators have introduced more than a dozen bills that align with the plan, nearly all of it affecting the entire state.
LeSar initially told The Times that her attorney had advised her that the second contract would be a potential conflict so she declined the work. But in later correspondence with The Times, she said that she had been mistaken. The attorney’s advice, LeSar said, was that the new contract wouldn’t pose a conflict, but she decided to forgo the work to avoid any appearance of a problem.from the beginning.
Some local government officials in the Bay Area’s smaller cities oppose the CASA Compact because they believe it takes away their power. Michael Barnes, a councilman in the city of Albany — a community that borders Berkeley — said LeSar’s extensive work with the MTC over the last 18 months adds to fears that lawmakers, out of deference to Atkins, will overlook local leaders’ concerns when evaluating the legislation.
Much of the contract work has come from the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, which is responsible for administering housing and planning efforts funded by the state’s cap-and-trade program, which taxes polluters. The state has provided roughly $400 million annually through Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities program, one of the largest budget allocations for low-income development and one that Atkins has said she “” in the Legislature to fund.
Great story on the total corruption of Senate Leader Toni Atkins. Stealing from the homeless. But you got one detail wrong. It is Senator Toni Atkins HERSELF who owns the bogus 'consulting company,' not her spouse!
She & her spouse may relocate to public housing if they were to be treated like Repubs who pulled this crap. You or I would be relocated to prison. (Public housing!!)
Let’s make sure to get rid of voter id and set up mail in voting to make it easier for them steal elections too. I don’t want them to exert themselves too much.
Jane_the_Deplor California powerful. Bread basket or a money pit?
California is corrupt to the core!
FBILosAngeles should be looking into potential corruption.
coincidence?
“Public Service”... California style.
That's how it works. Rich get richer.
Here’s an idea- congress should work on behalf of the PEOPLE and not on behalf of their wallets.
Cronyism happens on both sides of the aisle and needs to be stopped!
She’s corrupt AF
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Political corruption is what’s on the menu in California.
We have a state with a super majority democrats, literally the only powerful lawmakers in this state are Dems...does one party rule not frighten anyone else?