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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

Thank goodness for some progress finally.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

New builds are edit incentived to be higher density

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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 11 months ago

Edited to change word mandated

[–] AncientFutureNow@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Thanks Biden. 😅

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

https://youtu.be/yZIOUPePHjc