Residential single family homes under construction in the community of Valley Center on June 3, 2021. Photo by Mike Blake, ReutersA new research paper pinpoints how the California Environmental Quality Act collides with another state law to make housing construction more difficult than it should be., it was inevitable that conservative commentator Sean Hannity would bore in on California’s chronic housing shortage and homelessness crisis.“Because housing costs are too high,” Newsom replied.
Newsom’s synopsis of the issue is quite accurate. The state’s housing shortage stems from the over-regulation of development, largely driven by local opposition. It drives up costs to tenants and would-be homebuyers and pushes some into the streets.by a UC San Francisco research team. Having pinpointed the underlying causes of the crisis, one might think that Newsom would energetically attempt to address them.