Posted on 10/10/2025 5:37:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
On the campaign trail eight years ago, Gov. Newsom famously promised to support the construction of 3.5 million new homes in California by the end of this year. He’ll likely fall short by millions, but his latest move reaffirms the effort.
Newsom signed Senate Bill 79 into law on Friday. The historic bill, which looks to add density to transit hubs across California, is one of the most ambitious state-imposed housing efforts in recent memory.
“All Californians deserve an affordable place to live — close to jobs, schools, and opportunity. Housing near transit means shorter commutes, lower costs, and more time with family. When we invest in housing, we’re investing in people — their chance to build a future, raise a family, and be part of a community,” Newsom said in a statement.
The sweeping bill — which takes effect July 1, 2026 — upzones areas across California, overriding local zoning laws to allow taller, denser projects near transit hubs such as subway stops, light rail stops and bus stops with dedicated lanes.
Developers will be permitted to build up to nine-story residential buildings adjacent to subway stops, seven stories within a quarter-mile of them and six stories within a half-mile. The bill will also allow residential buildings that reach five to eight stories near light rail and dedicated bus lanes, depending on how close a piece of property is to a particular station or...
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ah yes. projects. the left’s form of concentration camp.
Building future gang fortresses.
The transit hubs won’t be anywhere near the cool people.
All conveniently located on properties democrats own I am sure. And next to transit hubs. Will the transit services be visiting Sonoma? Napa? Malibu? LaJolla?
Overrides local zoning laws. Lovely. You may not care since you don’t live near a transit hub but this establishes a precedent that the governor can wipe out zoning laws that keep your single family residential neighborhood just that. Anybody’s guess how much developers gave Hair Gel to make this happen.
who wants to sleep beside the train tracks and listen to trains all night....
Best to say housing for Democrats.
Everybody else is going to move
elsewhere.
I don’t read it that way. It sounds like a great opportunity for his rich contractors to make more money be creating high rises near mass transit stations, which are often the highest priced areas in a city.
These bills are being pushed across the country.
Good idea. Small places where people can get on the bus or train. Think night clubs and sports bars.
Ok so he wants us to be treated like cattle. There are places where us single folk can thrive and if it’s confined to 9 counties it’s just a matter of time before the other counties make it ok for 6 stories. Convenient.
oh yeah. they’ll get a lot of grant money. no question. that’s how the crony capitalist system works. maybe their near empty buses and lt rail will have some traffic for a change.
Most of that type of housing includes lots of “Affordable Housing” paid for by the rest of us.
The place will look like Haiti after the next big quake.
It won’t stay affordable. Banks put up the construction money and they take ownership 30 years down there road and rent/sell at market rates. Politicians can play Santa Claus that way-at least in the beginning. .
Free Range prisons, mental asylums, and voter education hubs. Subsidized housing, utilities, food stamps, health clinic, indoctrination schools and free daycare, and full time on site social workers. If you get uppity they will just replace you.
Other words for them: smart cities or 15-minute cities.
The globalists’ dream and part of the plan to remove the remaining people from the rest of the land.
Taking urban blight and spreading it throughout the state to each transit hub.
We are never short on ‘density’ in the state of California.
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