Will Rolling Back California’s Landmark Environmental Law Jumpstart Housing Construction?

Today marks the start of a new fiscal year in California, and the budget signed by Governor Gavin Newsom is going into effect now that the legislature met his demands for a major overhaul of California’s landmark environmental bill. Newsom and others have long seen the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, as a major impediment to building housing. Scott and Marisa are joined by Dustin Gardiner, the co-author of Politico’s California Playbook, to analyze the potential impact and political fallout of changes to CEQA.