California is cracking down on NIMBY cities. But when will it build housing in its own backyard?
Faced with a statewide housing crisis, California has increasingly moved to muscle NIMBY local governments into building against their will. The st...
Faced with a statewide housing crisis, California has increasingly moved to muscle NIMBY local governments into building against their will. The state announced Monday that it's suing the Sacramento County city of Elk Grove for denying a proposed 66-unit affordable housing complex. And it recently strong-armed San Francisco into approving three contentious projects, including a notorious 495-unit tower on a Nordstrom valet parking lot. But when it comes to building desperately needed housing, California's government isn't just the arbiter of state laws — it's also a vast landholder.