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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago

Thank goodness for some progress finally.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

California has a housing crisis across the board. NIMBYism and city zoning practices are artificially preserving neighborhoods with expensive, single family homes over what is actually needed: multi-family condos and apartments, combined with brand new social housing projects and homeless shelters.

This is a good start, but a lot more needs to be done.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

New builds are edit incentived to be higher density

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

No, they're not. In the past couple of years new legislation has been passed which incentivizes new builds to be high density, but there's still a lot of pushback from home owners and cities against building them.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Edited to change word mandated

[–] AncientFutureNow@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Thanks Biden. 😅

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Have a listen to get some insight on how mayor Bass achieved this. Starts around 19:20.

https://youtu.be/yZIOUPePHjc