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49 organizations, individuals sign letter asking CA Senate, Assembly to fund mobile park relocation

OASIS — Forty-nine organizations and individuals sent a letter to the California Senate and Assembly Budget Committees to ask for funding to relocate residents of Oasis Mobile Home Park in the Eastern Coachella Valley to new quality affordable housing in…

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Eastern Coachella Valley: COVID questions answered + Salton Sea community meeting + Riverside County General Plan

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‘You can feel it.’ Why CARB must vote to end ag burning in California

February 23, 2021
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Agricultural companies and the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (Valley Air), which is in charge of regulating air pollution in the Valley, have known about the phase-out of agricultural burning for almost two decades.

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Newsom plan to increase pesticide sale fees a monumental opportunity to protect rural communities

February 23, 2021
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Counties with a majority Latinx population use 906% more pesticides per square mile than counties with fewer than 24% Latinx residents.

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City of Fresno: Remove light industrial zoning in the proposed Plan Amendment

February 19, 2021
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This proposed project has failed to engage with residents consistently and in good faith.

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How the City of Merced can increase affordable housing and help residents at once

February 11, 2021
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A little known policy could provide affordable housing for residents currently facing an affordability crisis in the City of Merced and beyond.

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Chasing ‘home’ in Oasis

As elusive and unreliable as the basic resources have been at the Oasis Mobile Home Park, so has justice.

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By giving tenants a legal right to counsel, Fresno can lower the number of people experiencing homelessness

As families barely scrape by, landlords can afford to hire legal representation in what is an unfair process in a courtroom which only exacerbates a tenant’s financial liability when the attorney collects additional fees and surcharges from tenants.

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Federal Court Prohibits Local Governments From Excluding Non-Citizens from Certain CARES-Funded Programs

December 29, 2020
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As a federal court decision, and as statute 8 U.S.C. § 1611(a) preempts state and local law, state and local law cannot exclude undocumented individuals from CARES funded programs.

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Don’t fall for fossil fuel propaganda

December 16, 2020
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By ramping up the production of renewable natural gas for use in buildings and in cars and trucks, California will expand unsustainable agricultural practices that continually pollute nearby communities.

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