“We should be rewarding the cities that are doing good work [with affordable housing], not saying to those cities, ‘We’re going to take all your land-use authority,’” Portantino said about a week after it came to light that he decided to kill the bill for the year, thereby catapulting him into the center of a debate over how to best solve the state’s housing crisis.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 25, 2019 00:44 UTC