Andrew Faber, Berliner Cohen Partner, spoke at the City Attorneys Department of the League of California Cities Meeting on September 5, 2014, in Los Angeles.
His presentation, “Inclusionary Housing Requirements: Still Possible?,” focused on the changes in the legal landscape affecting affordable housing, particularly due to recent and pending California Supreme Court cases (in one of which Andy is representing the City of San Jose in defense of its inclusionary housing ordinance): “A few years ago, it seemed that inclusionary housing was a concept that was straightforward in execution and pretty defensible. It had been the subject of a League City Attorneys paper every few years. About one-third of the cities in the State used some form of it to help produce affordable housing. But several events have altered the legal landscape…” Read more…