SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California cities will soon face more state scrutiny — and new penalties — for pushing back on housing and homeless shelter construction, according to a package of laws signed Thursday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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Newsom has been cracking down on what he sees as local resistance and defiance of state laws in the face of California’s desperate need for new housing. The crisis has prompted a surge in the homeless population in the nation’s most populous state.
California has ramped up enforcement of state housing laws the last few years. It sued at least two cities last year for rejecting affordable housing projects and homes for homeless people. At the bill signing ceremony at an affordable housing site in San Francisco, Newsom also blasted the Southern California city of Norwalk for extending its temporary ban on new homeless shelters and affordable housing.
“They didn’t even want to zone or support any supportive housing in their community,” Newsom said Thursday. “This is the original sin in this state, decades and decades in the making.”
Newsom signed a total of 32 housing proposals Thursday.
Supporters said the new laws are crucial for building more housing at all price levels and preventing local governments from skirting state laws.
Cities and counties will be required to plan for housing for very low-income people, streamline permitting processes and expand some renters’ protection. The attorney general will be allowed to pursue civil penalties upward of $50,000 a month against cities or counties for offenses such as failing to adopt a housing plan as required by the state.
“With this clarity, with this structure, we believe that all of our incredible, good-faith-acting cities following the law will help us get to where we need to go,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said Thursday.
Now here is a joke…”Newsom has been cracking down on what he sees as local resistance and defiance” who made SLICK Dictator of California.
When the USSC gave communities the right to clear out homeless encampments he said I now have the authority to stop this crap. HUH???? Slick is now saying he hates the local resistance???? WHAT ARE YOU SLICK DICTATOR OR DEFENDER OF CITIES AND COMMUNITIES?
Here is the truth of the matter. The Democrat Party has become the Socialist Party close to being Communist….. They want and are taking more and more centralized control of housing and zoning… ” new laws are crucial for building more housing at all price levels …..”
They were voted into power by you. You and your cities are being destroyed by who you voted into power. Getting it yet…..you gave the dictators control. Isn’t it time to stop it?
Can’t fix crazy. “This is the original sin in this state, decades and decades in the making.” Who has been in charge for decades? Who has been forcing Environmental Impact Studies for “decades and decades” which stopped housing construction projects for “decades and decades”?
Unbelievable, how the majority of voters have no critical thinking skills at all. None. They cannot put two and two together to save their own necks. No clue on cause and effect. The voters put themselves into poverty by voting repeatedly to increase taxes. Duh?? Really???