Newsom Signs Historic Housing Bill to Bring Density to Transit Hubs
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California Governor Newsom has signed a historic housing bill aimed at increasing density around transit hubs, sparking discussion on its potential impact on housing availability and urban development.
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CEQA made sense at the time, and probably still is a good thing to control certain kinds of development, but blocking infill density-increasing multi-family housing does not really compute for me.
Most of my neighborhood, a non-city city of 100,000 people or more, has over the years decided to ignore the zoning, and build out makeshift garage conversions and single story housing structures. This indicates how hungry the market is for housing.