When: Wednesday, May 19, 2021,  12 noon to 1:30 pm
If you missed the event you can view a recording at Trespassers? Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia .

This event is part of SV@Home’s Affordable Housing Month 

About the Talk: Trespassers? Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia
The book, Trespasser? takes an intimate look at the everyday life and politics inside Silicon Valley against a backdrop of dramatic demographic shifts.  It follows one community over several decades as it transforms from a sleepy rural town to a global gateway and one of the nation’s largest Asian American-majority cities.  There, it highlights the passionate efforts of Asian Americans to make Silicon Valley their home by investing in local schools, neighborhoods, and shopping centers.  It also provides a textured tale of the tensions that emerge over this suburb’s changing environment.  With vivid storytelling, Trespassers? demonstrates that suburbia is an increasingly important place for immigrants and minorities to register their claims for equality and inclusion, while also raising questions about the rights of diverse populations to their own suburban American Dream.

About the Speaker:
Professor Willow Lung-Amam is an associate professor in the Urban Studies and Planning Program and director of community development at the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education at the University of Maryland, College Park. 

Recordings of Past Speaking Events: 

• Professor Willow Lung-Amam – Trespassers? Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia
• Professor Michael Lens – What Works in Making Housing More Affordable
  • More About Professor Lens
• Professor Jessica Trounstine discusses the themes of her awarding winning book, Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities 
  • More About Professor Trounstine
• Don Weden – Urbanism After the Pandemic, What futures should we be preparing for? 

Please join us!  There’s a lot happening in and around our city, including Mobile Home MOU update and Safe Parking in Mt.View & Sunnyvale; And 3 VOTES.

When: Wednesday, April 14, 2021,  6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Where: Click here to register for the Meeting link
Register in advance or register right before joining the meeting. 
After registering, Zoom will email you the link to join the meeting.

AGENDA

1. Announcements 
   • Moffett Park Land Use Alternative
     • Planning Commission meeting, April 26
     • City Council meeting, May 25
   • AB 1091 Board endorsement
   • Get your shot when it’s your turn!
   • Willow Lung Amam Talk 
   • Housing Element subcommittee
   • Call for volunteers to reach out to councilmembers
2. Apply for Boards and Commissions! Mayor Klein to speak briefly.
   • Arts Commission (2)
   • Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission (2)
   • Board of Building Code Appeals (2)
   • Board of Library Trustees (2)
   • Heritage Preservation Commission (2)
   • Housing and Human Services Commission (4)
   • Parks and Recreation Commission (2)
   • Personnel Board (1)
   • Planning Commission (1)
   • Sustainability Commission (2)
   • REDISTRICTING
3. SB 9/10, VOTE to have last year’s endorsements carry over
4. Pre-board election stuff 
   • Board election to be held in May — 3 open seats!
   • Give people opportunity to speak
5. Mobile Home MOU update. VOTE to support residents’ coalition (City Council meeting April 20)
6. Safe parking in Mountain View and Sunnyvale – Janet Werkman
   • Homeless housing at hotel 555 El Camino Real (VOTE TO ENDORSE)

Don Weden, Retired Principal Planner, County of Santa Clara, on
Urbanism After the Pandemic, What futures should we be preparing for?
When: Thursday, March 25, 2021,  6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Where: Click here to register for the Meeting link

Come join us for some very important topics:

1. Protecting the Juristac Sacred Grounds,

2. Hear how Sacramento legalized Fourplexes, followed by brainstorming in small groups on how we can achieve the same in Sunnyvale.  

When: Wednesday, February 3, 2021,  6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Where: Click here to register for the Meeting link
Register in advance or register right before joining the meeting. 
After registering, Zoom will email you the link to join the meeting.

AGENDA

1. Sunnyvale’s Study Issues Roundup – Richard
2. Protecting Juristac Sacred Grounds, a critical wildlife corridor in Gilroy and for thousands of years a sacred Native American landscape. Presentation + Q/A by Colleen Cabot of South Bay Indigenous Solidarity.   By learning and taking a stance, we may help influence the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors on this issue. VOTE.  Below are some related resources:
   • Protect Juristac Resource Guide
   • Recording of Talk by Valentin Lopez, Chair of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band at the Dec 2020 Sunnyvale Democratic Club meeting, on protecting sacred lands and specifically Juristac,
   • www.protectjuristac.org
3. Sacramento City Council approved Fourplexes – Ansel Lundberg from House Sacramento.  Here are three write up’s on this:
   • Sacramento Bee in-depth article
   • From the Terner Center
   • From Strong Towns
4. Small Groups discussion on Multi-Family Housing in Sunnyvale

Livable Sunnyvale is honored to host Professor Michael Lens for an insightful talk. 
Professor Lens studies housing affordability and segregation. Current projects concern the neighborhood context of eviction, evaluating California’s efforts to further fair housing, studying how housing vouchers impact economic, health, and justice outcomes in Sonoma County, and several projects (with Mike Manville and Paavo Monkkonen) concerning housing supply in California.  Lens is also working on a book project that examines fifty years of neighborhood change in Black neighborhoods following the 1968 Fair Housing Act. 

When: Wednesday, January 27,  6:30 PM to 8 PM
Where: Click here to register for the Meeting link   

Michael Lens is Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, and Associate Faculty Director of the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Professor Lens’s research and teaching explore the potential of public policy to address housing market inequities that lead to negative outcomes for low-income families and communities of color. This research involves housing interventions such as subsidies, tenant protections, and production. Professor Lens regularly publishes this work in leading academic journals and his research has won awards from the Journal of the American Planning Association and Housing Policy Debate.