Welcome to a New Resource for Beverly Hills Residents
Welcome to Beverly Hills Community Briefing.
You are here because you live in Beverly Hills, grew up here, or have an affiliation with our community. Perhaps a friend has forwarded this to you because they thought it would be of interest. Whatever your connection, we hope you find this information helpful in understanding what’s happening in the Beverly Hills community. Unlike the weekly papers you find in your driveway, which receive substantial financial support from the City of Beverly Hills, we have no ads, no conflicts of interest, and will deliver directly to your inbox.
Posts on this site and newsletter will be written and researched by Beverly Hills residents who are paying attention to our local issues. We are a group of concerned citizens who believe the City and our elected officials must be held accountable for their actions and the use of our tax dollars.
Our goal with Beverly Hills Community Briefing is to inform and to effect positive change. We want to see the City better serve our entire community and its residents. We will advocate for:
- Greater transparency, so everyone in the City understands how our tax dollars are being used and what decisions our elected representatives are making on our behalf. In recent years, our City has failed in this regard by spending approximately three-quarters of a million dollars on Israeli flag displays and trying to push through the Cheval Blanc Hotel project on Rodeo Drive that was ultimately rejected when voted on by Beverly Hills residents.
- Greater financial responsibility, so the City stops wasting money on lawsuits and counterproductive projects that reflect poorly upon all of us. In recent years, our city has funded failed efforts to halt the development of low-income housing, instead forcing us into state-mandated Builders Remedy projects that could be far worse for our residents than the initial projects they opposed. They recently approved underwriting a $500,000 bond for One Beverly, a housing development for the ultra-wealthy being built by ultra-wealthy developers.
- Common sense priorities, so our elected officials focus on what matters most: improving our schools, ensuring public safety, and fostering an inclusive community that respects and welcomes everyone – including people across the entire political spectrum, the LGBTQ community, women, people of all religions, races, and socioeconomic levels - all of whom currently live in and are members of our community. In recent years, some of our City leaders have failed us by focusing on divisive culture wars, national issues, and international issues that have nothing to do with running an effective, transparent, and responsible local city government.
We encourage you to gather information and make your own decisions about the issues that you feel are important to you. We will have opinions on the topics covered, but aim to be fair in our reporting. When our representatives do something well, we will highlight that too.
You may not agree with everything we say here. But we hope you will use the information to effect positive change.
Topics we will be covering include:
- The City Council’s coercion of a landlord to shut down a legal abortion clinic at the behest of nine Christian Nationalists who live far outside our city, then ignoring the residents who pushed back on their actions, and the subsequent lawsuit that is still pending.
- Numerous lawsuits against the city run the gamut from land use to racial profiling, and the expectation that there are more to come based on the decisions made by the current City Council.
- Numerous lawsuits against the school system for not protecting children from racist attacks, sexual predators, and other things not aligned with historic Beverly Hills values. For more thorough coverage of the school system, we recommend you subscribe to the informative BHUSD Watch newsletter.
- The upcoming election for City Council and School Board is scheduled for November 2026.
If this sounds interesting to you, please sign up here: subscribe . We promise not to bombard you and hope to send this letter out once a month unless there is something urgent we feel you should know.
We the People starts at home.