California: Fund the Relocation of Oasis Mobile Home Park Residents
We write as Californians and residents of Oasis Mobile Home Park to ask you to include $30 million in the May Revise and in budget negotiations to resolve a crisis impacting our lives and the lives of our children.
Will California Bury or Save This Desert Community?
For the Oasis Mobile Home Park in the Eastern Coachella Valley, a direct solution to the problems facing residents rests on a decision at the California capital.
California counties hold the key to solving the housing crisis
Some alarming signs are emerging of the way some counties are failing to help fix the state’s affordable housing crisis.
SB403 would authorize CA State Water Board to consolidate water systems at risk of failure
Current law does not allow the State Water Board to act proactively to prevent water systems from failing.
‘You can feel it.’ Why CARB must vote to end ag burning in California
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.
Newsom plan to increase pesticide sale fees a monumental opportunity to protect rural communities
Counties with a majority Latinx population use 906% more pesticides per square mile than counties with fewer than 24% Latinx residents.
Chasing ‘home’ in Oasis
As elusive and unreliable as the basic resources have been at the Oasis Mobile Home Park, so has justice.
Don’t fall for fossil fuel propaganda
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.
The Struggle for Water Justice in California’s San Joaquin Valley: A Focus on Disadvantaged Unincorporated Communities
Overview In California, lack of access to clean, safe, and affordable water is a threat to public health and well-being, and violates the state’s newly codified Human Right to Water (HRTW). In low-income communities located outside city boundaries (otherwise known as disadvantaged unincorporated communities or DUCs), drinking water is often unsafe to drink. In many such […]
Smart Growth in Rural California, a Working Paper
California has embarked upon a new era of land use planning that looks to the smart growth principles of compact and transit oriented development to achieve economic and environmental sustainability while furthering public health and social equity. With the passage of the Sustainable Communities Strategy and Climate Protection Act in 2009 (SB 375) and local […]
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