we wrote a brief on California's housing element law to point out some of its flaws... and suggest an improvement (1/6) lewis.ucla.edu/2019/05/10/rh…

A Flawed Law: Reforming California’s Housing Element - UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

In recent years, the state legislature has passed bills seeking to reform California's Housing Element Law. This brief highlights a sometimes misunderstood feature of the law's core planning tool:...

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Replying to @elpaavo
Your proposal that affordable housing goal be % of housing stock sounds great. I'm more skeptical of uniform housing growth target: * to prefer infill over sprawl for the environment * there's more demand (stronger economy) in some areas * want to reverse historic segregation

May 14, 2019 · 4:12 PM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron
I agree that overall growth targets would be better if tied to infill as you say. We’ve just been doing the exact opposite for 40 years, so making it proportional would be a huge improvement!
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