Charles and Karen Rosin are longtime Venice residents and directors of the Coalition for Safe Coastal Development, a nonprofit created to fight the Venice Dell Community housing project. Their group presents itself as protecting the coast from overdevelopment and flood risk but functions primarily as an opposition campaign against the city’s plans for affordable housing on the Venice parking lots. The Rosins have led public comment drives, organized lawsuits, and promoted messaging that reframes a housing development for low-income and formerly unhoused residents as a threat to “coastal safety.”