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VIDEO. SHIFT Bay Area Seminar with Michael Gates, Three Term City Attorney for Huntington Beach: “Housing Community Development’s RHNA Housing Element Mandates are Out of Control”, Saturday, May 16th, 2026.
SHIFT Bay Area Charter: Sustainability in Housing, Infrastructure, Finance, and Transportation locally and regionally in the Bay Area. Hence, SHIFT.
Join our monthly informative talks and presentations on timely topics affecting our local governance, with invited speakers as part of the dialog.
Our group provides penta-partisan (Democrat, Republican, Independent, Libertarian, and Progressive) evidence-based analyses of regional governance performance and policies. We are an unpaid and unsponsored educational group.
All monthly SHIFT Seminars are on the 3rd Saturday of the month at 10am, via Zoom.
May 16th, 10:00am: “Housing Mandates are Out of Control”
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82697532708?pwd=X7scOmiBROVrEavR0AcjFKwHP3fiDF.1
Sacramento’s one-size-fits-all RHNA mandates are doing real harm – overriding local voters while forcing development into environmentally sensitive and fire-prone areas. The City of Los Angeles cited $1.6Billion in State-caused costs as part of their opposition to these housing mandates. The South Bay Cities Council of Governments considers RHNA replacement legislation their top priority. Our speaker, Michael Gates, was the 3 term City Attorney of Huntington Beach and will speak about why the City decided to sue the State over RHNA.
Speaker: Michael Gates
Michael began his legal career in private practice as a litigator. After establishing himself as an accomplished trial attorney, in 2014, Michael left a successful private practice to serve the public as the elected City Attorney of Huntington Beach, a position he held for ten years after winning citywide elections in 2014, 2018, and 2022. In 2025, Michael was appointed Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he oversaw approximately 100 attorneys across Employment, Voting and Elections, Housing and Civil Enforcement, and Criminal sections.
SHIFT Bay Area formulates and promotes effective, efficient, sustainable governance rooted in democratic values and principles. We focus on housing, infrastructure, finance, and transportation regionally and locally in the Bay Area, and on State and Federal issues which impact us here.
We formed as a non-partisan group because of an alarming lack of good governance, as further described in our History page (link). At a critical period in our history, we need clear focus on a cost-effective, sustainable civilization. This site explains how and where we can do better.
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