• Despite legislative changes at the state level to streamline housing developments, California still struggles to build.
• Changes at the state level are stymied by local governments, which disproportionately favor nimby interests.
• Parking requirements, environmental reviews, size guidelines, and historical designations, union labor requirements are all used to gum up development.
• California legislation struggles from the “everything bagel” problem, where a targeted bill to address a specific problem (housing) gets hampered with many conditions to address all sorts of problems that are at best tangentially related.
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**Article Summary:**
• Despite legislative changes at the state level to streamline housing developments, California still struggles to build.
• Changes at the state level are stymied by local governments, which disproportionately favor nimby interests.
• Parking requirements, environmental reviews, size guidelines, and historical designations, union labor requirements are all used to gum up development.
• California legislation struggles from the “everything bagel” problem, where a targeted bill to address a specific problem (housing) gets hampered with many conditions to address all sorts of problems that are at best tangentially related.