After a decade of legal and political wrangling, the fight over an East Bay apartment project that jumpstarted a national pro-housing movement may finally be coming to a close.
After a decade of legal and political wrangling, the fight over a Lafayette apartment project that jumpstarted a national pro-housing movement may finally be coming to a close, marking a symbolic victory for advocates fed up with the Bay Area’s unhospitable housing market.
The ruling is the likely culmination of a series of protracted skirmishes that helped galvanize a growingcrack down on growth-averse cities“The folks who initially objected to this project, and have been fighting it ever since, poked a sleeping bear,” said Matt Regan, a housing policy expert with the Bay Area Council business association.
Up until that point, Trauss and her fellow millennial activists — most of whom had little background in housing policy but were united in feeling priced out of the region — had been gaining attention mainly for showing up to city meetings to voice loud support for proposed developments and square off with older homeowners bent on killing the projects.
“Even just the name Lafayette, even if you don’t know anything, it sounds like what it is,” said Trauss, who didn’t live in the city. “If it had been called Danville, it just wouldn’t have been as good.”
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