Gov. Jerry Brown's sledgehammer fix to California's housing crisis

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[ChicagoConservative27]

Gov. Jerry Brown’s solution to California’s affordable housing crisis is to build, build, build, and not let local politics get in the way. Earlier this month, the governor introduced a bill under which proposed urban housing developments that meet local zoning requirements and reserve some portion of their units for low-income residents would be exempted from any additional environmental or local government review. The governor’s theory is that neighborhood opponents and other parochial interests have consistently blocked or downsized badly needed development projects, leading to a housing crisis in which California's major cities are increasingly unaffordable for most of its residents. As a result, the state, home to 12% of the nation’s population, has 21% of the nation’s homeless.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Or, can we say that liberalism has prevented badly needed housing from being built? Which has resulted in sky high housing prices in many parts of California????

[buwaya]

This is an interesting idea.
Anything that bypasses the overwhelming bureaucracy and patalyzing process, even at the cost of an implied tax (and not really much of a tax in truth) is worthwhile.

[SkyDancer]

Yeah, build a few more Cabrini-Green type projects.

[going hot]

As a result, the state, home to 12% of the nation’s population, has 21% of the nation’s homeless.

The homelessness is not due to the lack of homes.

It is due to the generous help they get, and the climate, both political and geographic.

Brown knows that. So, what is he really giving the green light to? development of land for housing tracts.

Who wins?

Guessers?

Any suspicions?

Cough Angelides cough

[bray]

California is the hardest state in the union to build in. Wonder if there is a connection?

Pray America wakes

[bubbacluck]

Where will the water come from for these new homes?

[AndyJackson]

A socialist finally falling back to something approaching a free market solution. Wonders will never cease.

[Cicero]

More affordable housing for muggers and drug dealers. No town is exempted.

[econjack]

Maybe try something like what they did in NJ. Get together with the trade unions and have them agree to take in new apprentice members to work on abandoned houses in a city. The city agrees to providing the house and materials costs and the union agrees to train unemployed workers in their trades. It's a win-win. The city gets the house back on the tax roles and can use the proceeds from the sale to fund new projects. The unions get new members at a time when union membership is on the skids. Finally, some unemployed workers learn a skill that can serve them for a lifetime.

The only problem I see is that the real estate market in CA is so outta whack that there might not be any foreclosed houses available. I don't know that market at all.

[stocksthatgoup]

Exempt from environmental rules? Guess it only matters when it suits you

[US_MilitaryRules]

Unicorn urine!

[realcleanguy]

Wow, the Green and the Liberals should be up in arms. But they will never protest their own for violating their beliefs

[goldstategop]

One of the few sane proposals from CA’s Moonbeam governor.

Unfortunately, its likely to die in the legislature caught between powerful unions and environmental extremists.

Common sense is a rarity in CA.

[randita]

The homelessness is not due to the lack of homes. It is due to the generous help they get, and the climate, both political and geographic.

Bingo! Among those who get generous help are a good many addicts and mentally ill persons, none of whom are able to get and keep a job..

[randita]

The problem could be solved in a day if all the bleeding heart liberals out there who claim to have so much compassion would open their homes and invite a homeless person in.

[bgill]

Deport the illegals and there won’t be a housing crisis. Won’t be a traffic problem or ER problem or educational problem or...

[vette6387]

“Where will the water come from for these new homes?”

You might want to take a look at this graph on one of our major reservoirs

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/resDetailOrig.action?resid=SHA

For the mostpart, all the others have similar stories. Water here isn’t a problem for people, it’s a problem for agriculture. for years our agribusinesses have pi$$ed away our water. Now they’re finally adopting serious changes to their water use.

[Sergio]

Maybe I’m just being cynical, but I foresee this program being green lighted for conservative counties and not applied for counties in the L.A., San Fran Metro areas.

[minnesota_bound]

Jerry Brown inherited a 2,514-acre family ranch in Colusa County, Calif.
Brown told the Sacramento Bee in 2013 that he and his family owned a controlling interest in the acreage near Williams and that he planned to put a house on the property.
http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-brown-state-research-oil-ranch-20151105-story.html

1 home. He should build 3 homes per acre. He does not need all that land.

He had the taxpayers pay to look for oil on his land.
He made $10 million so far selling/renting/ receiving tax credits various interests
https://shastalantern.net/2015/11/10000000-land-deal-discovered-on-governor-brown-colusa-ranch-property/