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Real Estate/Development

Jul. 25, 2024

The false narrative around CEQA and the California housing crisis

The real causes of the affordable housing crisis are market forces and lack of housing subsidies, not CEQA, which has been amended multiple times to streamline environmental review for infill housing projects.

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It’s no secret that homelessness has become a national crisis, as communities nationwide are struggling to provide sufficient affordable housing. To solve this growing problem, we must focus on the real causes of the crisis, and the realistic policy solutions that will lift us out of it. Cynically, some real estate developers are taking advantage of the crisis to attempt to escape environmental regulations. This effort to short circuit environmental review would incre...

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