We’re stronger together

United Neighbors is a coalition of neighborhood residential groups throughout California. Our common goal is to protect multi-family and single-family neighborhoods while supporting affordable and equitable housing for all. The rights of all residents and the rights of people needing affordable housing are bound together, and the solution to our affordable housing crisis requires thoughtful, effective, and rapid-acting legislation with community input. 

United Neighbors looks forward to working with elected officials so they can implement good housing policy with community inputs and ideas. We encourage everyone to counteract the false narrative that single-family zoning is the cause of our affordable housing shortage and instead collaboratively solve the real problem – the urgent need for effective funding strategies. 

The California Alliance of Local Electeds (CALE) is a network of mayors, councilmembers and other elected officials who advocate in Sacramento on significant issues that contribute to the betterment of California’s cities, including preservation of local control and support of forward-thinking legislation. 

https://www.caleelecteds.org

In 1965, a group of citizens stood up to the environmental destruction following uncontrolled development throughout the state. They formed the Planning and Conservation League (PCL) to prevent nonstop development from further devastating California’s air, lands, and waters, and to protect all those who call it home.

The PCL has remained at the forefront of California environmental policy. We are proud to have led the creation of some of the state’s most crucial environmental laws and policies, including the California Coastal Act, the Integrated Waste Management Act, and the California Environmental Quality Act. Learn more about PCL’s history.   

ONV is a grassroots nonprofit sponsoring a ballot initiative to restore local authority over housing. We’re your neighbors, colleagues, and local leaders. We’re fighting for local democracy and truly affordable housing. We’re fighting for you.

At the Center for Biological Diversity, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because diversity has intrinsic value, and because its loss impoverishes society, we work to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. We do so through science, law and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters and climate that species need to survive. 

We want those who come after us to inherit a world where the wild is still alive.

The Endangered Habitats League is dedicated to the protection of the diverse ecosystems of Southern California and to sensitive and sustainable land use for the benefit of all the region's inhabitants.

EHL is leading the way toward a better future for all of Southern California ’s inhabitants: 

A future in which our natural heritage is preserved for our enjoyment and enrichment, as a home for wildlife, and as a legacy for our children and the generations to come.  

Please join us in this vital work.

BECAUSE  STATE HOUSING POLICY 

FAVORS LUXURY OVER AFFORDABILITY, 

REPLACES PLANNING WITH PROFITS, 
IGNORES HAZARDS AND THE ENVIRONMENT,

AND SETS UP CITIES TO FAIL  

CITIZEN MARIN was the precursor to WAKE UP CALIFORNIA 

Information and resources are still stocked at this older site. Amy transitioned to WAKE UP when it became obvious that housing policy was a statewide issue, 

San Francisco has long been at the forefront of progressive policymaking nationally. 

These policies are progressive not just because they are rooted in equity and justice, but because they actually work. 

We hope you’ll find a community of like-minded individuals here at PROPEL who are interested in collaborating, uplifting and nerding out on progressive solutions to improve the city that we all love – so San Francisco can continue to be a beacon for other cities grappling with the same issues.

Citizen Portal exists to help people understand what's actually happening in government — clearly, transparently, and without spin. Our mission is to illuminate government action to amplify transparency, provide clarity, and fuel civic engagement.

After helping millions of people understand where they come from at Ancestry.com — a lifelong mission to use technology to uplift humanity, expand access to knowledge, and strengthen civic trust — I turned to a question just as fundamental: how do we help people understand the systems that govern their lives today?

This is the beginning of something important — not just for Citizen Portal, but for all of us who believe an informed public strengthens democracy.

— Paul AllenFounder, Citizen Portal · Co-founder, Ancestry.com

Don’t Let City Council Destroy Beloved Commercial Districts!

Berkeley City Council is advancing massive up-zoning of the Elmwood, North Shattuck, and Solano Ave. shopping districts that would allow developers to replace our small, independent, locally-owned shops that have served our communities for decades – with 7 to 14 story apartment buildings.

Change is afoot in the Sonoma Valley, and with change comes opportunity. Our purpose is to foster, educate, and advocate for development of public and/or private lands for natural and human purposes within the carrying capacity of the land and climate.

We are working to turn things around for the future of the Sonoma Developmental Center (SDC), provide truly affordable housing and save its historic buildings and its mature landscape at the center of our community.

We have a strategy at Sonoma Valley Next 100. It includes:

• Forming the Sonoma Mountain Community Services District as a democratic voice for the community and the path to keep SDC lands in public hands.
• Challenging the State – make them implement the promises of the Enabling Legislation, including those for public service uses; protection of the open space and the wildlife corridor; affordable housing; historic preservation and adaptive reuse; all at a rural scale.
• Designing within the services available – water, sewer, roads, and safe evacuation routes.
• Working for a lasting solution for the future of the SDC – one that keeps the land in public ownership long term, and gives the community in the Sonoma Valley a say in decisions long term.

We were formerly known as the SDC Next 100 and are now a 501c(3) non-profit.