Environmental & Energy
Jun. 25, 2015
Housing case hints at chief justice's land use stance
Last week, the provided inclusionary housing advocates a major policy and legal victory by unanimously ruling that an affordable housing program is constitutional.
Richard M. Frank
Professor of Environmental Practice
UC Davis School of Law
Richard is director of the California Environmental Law & Policy Center at the UC Davis School of Law.
Last week, the California Supreme Court provided inclusionary housing advocates a major policy and legal victory. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in California Building Industry Association v. City of San Jose that affordable housing programs such as San Jose's are constitutional. The justices forcefully rejected the argument, advanced by California's building industry and the Pacific Legal Foundation, that such programs constitute an unconstitution...
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