While our League has recently established a policy to discourage face-to-face meetings in an attempt to help contain the escalating coronavirus outbreak, the Social Justice Housing Subcommittee is continuing to study another urgent issue in our area and our nation: the need for affordable housing.

The definition of an understatement - Housing is a complex issue. The respected New York Times used Lafayette’s controversial The Terraces/Deer Hill development, opposed by the citizen group "Save Lafayette, as a poster child to ask – how does a community do its part to address California’s housing need and can it or should it strive to maintain the character of its community?