How do you lie in plain sight and make it seem real? You pretend you have a problem, put a LARGE number to it and then use the State government to control the process.
- “Amid a 4.5 million home housing shortage, California’s Little Hoover Commission, a non-partisan, state-funded body, unveiled major changes to the state’s landmark California Environmental Quality Act designed to improve housing construction times and costs. LHC found CEQA is heavily used for “non-environmental goals” and recommended, among other acts, exempting infill housing from CEQA review and requiring greater standing to indefinitely challenge new construction, as currently nearly anyone in the country can.”
If you believe we have a 4.5 million home shortage you have to believe either:
- We have 4.5 million FAMILIES living on the streets
- We have 4.5 million families living with other families
- Or we have 4.5 million illegal aliens Newsom wants to house.
Regardless of which it is or combination, this is a scam for developers and unions to make money at the cost of taxpayers. The Bay Area is looking to put a $20 billion bond on the November ballot—that is $40 billion including interest. We are told that San Fran, which is losing population MUST build 81,000 new housing units. Seriously, where could you put them, in the middle of the ocean?
Why isn’t the media questions these outlandish numbers? I thought COVID was a scam, between the social distancing, closing of schools and churches, worthless masks and dangerous untested vaccines—this is a long term scam. It will take 30 years to pay off these bonds—and we do not need them.
California state commission unveils major CEQA update proposal to expand housing
By Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square, 5/9/24 https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/article_6851b954-0d85-11ef-8d7d-0337497472f5.html?a?utm_source=thecentersquare.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletters%2Flists%2Ft2%2Fcalifornia%2F&utm_medium=email&utm_content=read%20more
- Center Square) – Amid a 4.5 million home housing shortage, California’s Little Hoover Commission, a non-partisan, state-funded body, unveiled major changes to the state’s landmark California Environmental Quality Act designed to improve housing construction times and costs. LHC found CEQA is heavily used for “non-environmental goals” and recommended, among other acts, exempting infill housing from CEQA review and requiring greater standing to indefinitely challenge new construction, as currently nearly anyone in the country can.
“Notably, the commission recommends requiring that groups filing CEQA lawsuits be able to show that their lawsuits are specifically related to environmental harms rather than economic ones. In addition, they recommended applying a blanket exemption to all infill housing without any additional conditions or qualifications,” said Joseph Cohen May, a California land use expert. “If enacted, these two policies would end the use of CEQA as an extortion tool by labor and NIMBY groups against housing development.
The Little Hoover Commission is a bipartisan, independent state oversight agency that submits its conclusions to the governor and legislature for consideration, which often results in adopted legislation. However, May says it appears there’s little chance LHC’s proposals would pass the legislature.
“I am doubtful that there is any chance these reforms will pass, as they run counter to the desires of some of the most powerful interest groups in the state,” May continued.
The LHC’s report details unintended abuses of CEQA: “It is an expensive and lengthy process that can add years to project timeframes. It can be used for purposes that have little relationship to environmental protection. Its strong bias toward the status quo means that it can be used to block projects that would help improve the environment.”
According to an analysis from the San Francisco Chronicle, it typically takes 626 days from a home builder to receive a construction permit in the city. Because interest costs are some of the largest costs developers pay — developers put up some money but borrow most of what they spend — these construction permitting delays from CEQA, or the threat thereof, significantly hampers housing construction in California by extending project completion times and thus development costs.
“Exempting infill housing from onerous CEQA requirements is the least California could to to ramp up needed housing production,” said Nolan Gray, research director for California YIMBY, to The Center Square. “States like Washington have already done this.”
