Plain English with Derek Thompson How Abundance Won in California (Season 4, Episode 42)
Podcast Episode | 61 min | Talk-Show

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Plain English with Derek Thompson

How Abundance Won in California (Season 4, Episode 42)

Podcast Episode | 61 min | Talk-Show

The California housing crisis is a disaster and an emergency. Housing construction per capita has steadily fallen in the last few decades, while home prices, rent, and homeless rates have all soared. By some estimates, the state is three ...See moreThe California housing crisis is a disaster and an emergency. Housing construction per capita has steadily fallen in the last few decades, while home prices, rent, and homeless rates have all soared. By some estimates, the state is three million units short of housing demand-the equivalent of seven San Franciscos. One of the major barriers to building more housing has for decades been provisions in the California Environmental Quality Act. Signed by Gov. Ronald Reagan in the 1970s, the CEQA has been called "the law that ate California." It essentially allows anybody with a lawyer to stop any project they don't like, for any reason. But this week, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills to defang the CEQA. Housing reform advocates are calling it one of the most important legislative breakthroughs in modern state history. It could make it easier to build downtown housing and other urban development projects such as health clinics and childcare facilities. As Newsom wrote, "I just enacted the most game-changing housing reforms in recent California history. We're urgently embracing an abundance agenda by tearing down the barriers that have delayed new affordable housing and infrastructure for decades." Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks wrote the bill to encourage more high-density housing projects, while State Senator Scott Wiener wrote the bill to exempt several types of projects from environmental review. Wicks and Wiener are today's guests. We talk about the long road to breakthrough, the art of political persuasion, and the future of abundance in California. See less

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Derek Thompson Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	WeWork: or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn (2021)
Buffy Wicks Self - California State Assemblywoman Self - California State Assemblywoman See fewer	Plain English with Derek Thompson (2021)
Scott Wiener Self - California State Senator Self - California State Senator See fewer	Uprooted: California's Complicated Road to Cannabis Legalization (2020)

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