Getting people off the street is a priority for Gov. Gavin Newsom. But even with massive funding and new data on who is homeless and why, the state is struggling to see change.
Getting people off the street is a priority for Gov. Gavin Newsom. But even with massive funding and new data on who is homeless and why, the state is struggling to see change.
The problem seems so bad I’m surprised they haven’t passed a law that just bypasses environmental regulations and other red tape along with telling the towns and cities to go fuck themselves when it comes to zoning.
Or even just having the government directly build houses.
Or just throwing tax credits and incentives ar builders to build “starter” or lower income housing.
Or anything. It just seems like they’re doing jack shit about it.
The neoliberals can’t blame this one on Republicans considering Democrats have control of the entire state.
It’s worse than that, environmental regs are routinely used to shut down housing plans in the bay area, chiefly through the use of CEQA. CEQA has also been exploited like crazy to fight the HSR and drive costs way up. It’s bad enough that Newsom was discussing possible CEQA reforms, though he was talking about it with housing in mind.