Aiming to speed up the construction of affordable housing and homeless shelters in California, new legislation would make all new low-income housing projects exempt from a key environmental law that has been used to restrict development. “We have to push hard to get affordable housing done, emergency shelters and permanent supportive housing. AdvertisementAB 1907 builds off a law Santiago authored last year that eliminated CEQA requirements for homeless housing projects and shelters in the city of Los Angeles. The new bill is one of the most significant efforts in recent memory from a Democratic lawmaker to change the environmental law. But he said he believes that lawmakers need to debate anything slowing the production of affordable and homeless housing.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 09, 2020 02:48 UTC