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Over 60 left-leaning groups, claiming to represent over 110,000 Californians, are calling for Dianne Feinstein to resign from her U.S. Senate seat.

The letter includes more than 100,000 Californians who have asked the female senator to step down and focus on her health which has prompted her absence.

More than 60 liberal groups in California have signed a letter asking the oldest living senator to resign on Friday

When I was speaking across the country promoting the housing policy changes urged in my book, Generation Priced Out, I did not foresee my hometown of Berkeley ending exclusionary zoning before Seattle, Denver and other cities. To the contrary, my book discusses how Berkeley’s 1973 “Neighborhood Preservation Ordinance” became a national model for using “neighborhood character” and “public input” to stop new apartments. Through most of 2020,  Berkeley refused to end exclusionary z...

A Model For Other Cities? When I was speaking across the country promoting the housing policy changes urged in Generation Priced Out, I did not foresee my hometown of Berkeley, California ending exclusionary zoning before Seattle, Denver and other cities. To the contrary, my book discusses how Berkeley’s 1973 “Neighborhood Preservation Ordinance” became a national model for using “neighborhood character” and “public input” to stop new apartments. Through most of 2020,  Berkeley r...