Posted on 02/14/2018 10:14:44 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Proposal aimed at keeping up with population growth would limit cities’ power over housing, handing more control to state.
The mayor of Berkeley, California, has called it “a declaration of war”. A neighborhood group in Los Angeles said it would be akin to forcing Native Americans from their land.
Amid a desperate housing crisis, legislators in the Golden State have prompted an outcry with new proposals that threaten to take the rulebook that governs American city planning and throw it out the window.
Their proposition: reducing cities’ power to decide what gets built and putting more control into state hands.
“We have a housing deficit in the millions and it grows every year,” said the state senator Scott Wiener, author of a bill at the center of the fight.
Liberals have found themselves pitted against liberals, with urban environmentalists who want to build “smart cities” with dense housing around transit lines facing off against minority groups fighting to protect inner-city neighborhoods and suburbanites wanting to slow growth. It has divided renting millennials from their homeowning parents and created a passionate breed of housing activists calling themselves Yimbys.
In an interview, meanwhile, Mayor Jesse Arreguin of Berkeley called the proposed rule change “extreme”.
“This will change the character of neighborhoods in the Bay Area and throughout the state.”
Others see Wiener’s plan in even starker terms, underlining the challenge that he and Yimby groups face.
A stakeholders’ coalition in the Crenshaw district, a Los Angeles neighborhood that has historically had a large African American community, charged that the bill would drive up prices.
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So, in other words, this is a “happy” story!
Those damn intransigent citizens who won’t provide housing and care for the entire nation of Mexico and most of Central America are just greedy and inconsiderate!
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‘Rat fight!!!
So, which is it?
I suspect that the outflow is based on taxpayer information, and the influx that creates the housing shortage is uncontrolled illegal aliens, because there are NO stories about a rush of Americans TO California.
-PJ
so.....all of a sudden Libs LOVE Federalism and local control.
My daughter and her husband moved out. That should free up some space.
Tax payers are leaving. Tax recipients are flooding in.
Sounds like fun - if you have CCW.
Whenever I think of southern california, I see a region desperately low in population. They need more people, and cars, and pollution, and to just use way more and more resources, for one they need to get rid of all that excess naturally occuring water somehow. They also need to more densly pack diverse groups into ever shrinking areas because human nature favors dissimilar groups forced to live as close together as possible.
Arm both sides.
First the whiners who live in those crappy neighborhoods complain about the fact that they live in a crappy neighborhood with crappy neighbors such as themselves. When the neighborhood improves and becomes livable again, the same people complain about gentrification.
BTW, a lot of those crappy California people are moving to Las Vegas where the crime rate is going through the roof.
“That should free up some space.”
Yeah but it will be destroyed in no time.
We wouldn’t have a housing crisis if the Bush Republicans and Obama Democrats hadn’t flooded California with half of the 3rd world
This must be the first time in The Guardian’s history that it has opposed moving authority to a higher level of government.
It is that same Californication legislature that’s very much to blame for creating the housing shortage there in the first place Just ask any builder or developer
California doesn’t have a housing shortage. They have a surplus of illegal foreign invaders.
Americans don’t go to Californication it’s mostly communist Chinese and other Asians buying most of the housing Largely illegals but many get brought in by the supposedly- American big electronics firms They hire foreigners innpreferrbce to Americans. Some of the leading USA universities’ graduates haven’t even been able to get interviews for years and years already. Which is the core reason why so many USA students avoid science- tech- engineering - math majors. Watch and see if djt Drs is this swamp. There’s a ton of money from the sillycon valley corporations flowing into wash dc to keep the flood of foreign workers coming in — and of course to keep any ins enforcement actions focused on the local 7-11 stores and NOT on apple, Hewlett Packard, Facebook, Adobe, google, etc
The Guardian is the most anti-American newspaper aside from the NYT and LAT. Heck, their editors even physically tried to “arrest” Dick Cheney on the street FYI
Wait until they run out of room and have to build public housing in Marin County...Mwaahahahahahaa
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