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It takes effect July 1, 2026, in San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties, absent cities’ alternative plans for transit-oriented upzoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010450\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener speaks at a press event in front of the SFUSD offices in San Francisco on Oct. 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It will also allow transit agencies to set their own zoning rules on properties they own adjacent to transit-oriented development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents argue that a shortage of affordable housing has ensnared the state in an unaffordability crisis, exacerbated by “permitting, rezoning, and public funding barriers to build” affordable housing in the state, according to Wiener.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have [now] undone decades of housing prohibitions in our cities near the transit stations that we’ve all paid for, and we’ll start to see hopefully soon a [return] to the way California was envisioning its growth when we built these transit stations,” said Matt Lewis, a spokesperson for California YIMBY, a group that advocates for accelerating housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities must meet the housing targets outlined in the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101885996/california-cities-struggle-to-meet-new-housing-planning-guidelines\">Regional Housing Needs Assessment\u003c/a> to avoid lawsuits, losses in funding and other consequences, including what’s known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945744/california-building-boom-a-new-law-promised-big-but-has-yet-to-deliver-in-the-bay-area\">the “builder’s remedy,”\u003c/a> which allows developers to sidestep local zoning restrictions if the city is out of compliance with state housing law.[aside postID=news_12042670 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/008_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3485_qed-1020x680.jpg']Yet, how to achieve ambitious housing goals has caused controversy in a state where how and what to build is a touchy subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, city leaders are working on a plan to add more than 36,000 homes to the city’s west side and northern neighborhoods as part of\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/12057448/on-sfs-west-side-a-push-to-protect-historic-landmarks-amid-plans-for-more-housing\"> a new “family zoning” push\u003c/a> that would exempt these parts of the city from SB 79. If the Board of Supervisors doesn’t approve that plan by January, the state will start to impose fines and withhold critical funding for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are real consequences if we fail to pass family zoning,” San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said Friday in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DPo2PTUEoEc/?hl=en\">Instagram post\u003c/a> about the carveouts in SB 79. “The state is ready with what they call the builder’s remedy, which means unlimited height and density on every block and stripping the city of all decision-making power on new projects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In discussions in the Capitol, equity groups \u003ca href=\"https://wclp.org/sb79-oppose-unless-amended-to-protect-housing-input-affordability/\">argued\u003c/a> that the bill does not enshrine affordability requirements for new housing. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-sb-79-map-neighborhoods-address-housing-california-bill-bass-newsom\">urged Newsom to veto the bill\u003c/a>, saying that it would “erode local control, diminish community input on planning and zoning and disproportionately impact low-resource neighborhoods.” And homeowner groups have said they \u003ca href=\"https://archive.ph/MIOix#selection-3119.0-3134.0\">fear\u003c/a> the bill will \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/people-take-to-the-streets-of-south-park-to-protest-california-housing-bill/3897316/\">affect\u003c/a> the character of their neighborhoods and price out small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the bill cleared political hurdles and narrowly passed both houses of the Legislature after adding provisions for labor unions, and by exempting areas that are already covered by local housing policy that promotes transit. That allowed it to avoid the fate of Wiener’s previous three attempts in the last seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s decision was highly anticipated for weeks. His signing represents a significant step in California’s housing experiment, alongside several other housing bills signed Friday — including one to slash red tape around converting office buildings into residences and multiple bills meant to streamline the construction of accessory dwelling units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/abandlamudi\">\u003cem>Adhiti Bandlamudi\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Yet, how to achieve ambitious housing goals has caused controversy in a state where how and what to build is a touchy subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, city leaders are working on a plan to add more than 36,000 homes to the city’s west side and northern neighborhoods as part of\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/12057448/on-sfs-west-side-a-push-to-protect-historic-landmarks-amid-plans-for-more-housing\"> a new “family zoning” push\u003c/a> that would exempt these parts of the city from SB 79. If the Board of Supervisors doesn’t approve that plan by January, the state will start to impose fines and withhold critical funding for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are real consequences if we fail to pass family zoning,” San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said Friday in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DPo2PTUEoEc/?hl=en\">Instagram post\u003c/a> about the carveouts in SB 79. “The state is ready with what they call the builder’s remedy, which means unlimited height and density on every block and stripping the city of all decision-making power on new projects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In discussions in the Capitol, equity groups \u003ca href=\"https://wclp.org/sb79-oppose-unless-amended-to-protect-housing-input-affordability/\">argued\u003c/a> that the bill does not enshrine affordability requirements for new housing. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-sb-79-map-neighborhoods-address-housing-california-bill-bass-newsom\">urged Newsom to veto the bill\u003c/a>, saying that it would “erode local control, diminish community input on planning and zoning and disproportionately impact low-resource neighborhoods.” And homeowner groups have said they \u003ca href=\"https://archive.ph/MIOix#selection-3119.0-3134.0\">fear\u003c/a> the bill will \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/people-take-to-the-streets-of-south-park-to-protest-california-housing-bill/3897316/\">affect\u003c/a> the character of their neighborhoods and price out small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the bill cleared political hurdles and narrowly passed both houses of the Legislature after adding provisions for labor unions, and by exempting areas that are already covered by local housing policy that promotes transit. That allowed it to avoid the fate of Wiener’s previous three attempts in the last seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s decision was highly anticipated for weeks. His signing represents a significant step in California’s housing experiment, alongside several other housing bills signed Friday — including one to slash red tape around converting office buildings into residences and multiple bills meant to streamline the construction of accessory dwelling units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/abandlamudi\">\u003cem>Adhiti Bandlamudi\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday announced an ambitious effort for\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\"> California\u003c/a> to make up for billions of dollars the Trump administration is seeking to cut from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030313/uc-berkeley-scientists-protest-trump-administrations-cuts-to-research-funding\">scientific and medical research\u003c/a>, which critics say threatens American innovation and health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB607\">SB 607\u003c/a>, would ask state voters in November 2026 to authorize the issuance of bonds for $23 billion. That ballot measure would create and fund the California Foundation for Science and Health Research to continue developing cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and other diseases, as well as discoveries in climate science, wildfire prevention, pandemic preparedness and other fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government has historically been one of the biggest funders of scientific research in California and other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Trump administration has proposed slashing \u003ca href=\"https://www.aau.edu/key-issues/federal-research-cuts-threaten-us-innovation-and-leadership\">more than $27 billion in funds\u003c/a> to the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, NASA and the Department of Energy’s Office of Science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing now at the federal level is nothing short of horrifying. …. Science has been one of the pillars of American prosperity,” said state Sen. 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The Trump administration has already taken steps to freeze about $584 million of that funding at UCLA, though a judge \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2025/08/trump-ucla-research-grants/\">ordered the government\u003c/a> last month to restore some of the grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government has said that some of the research projects targeted for funding cuts are no longer priorities. At other times, the administration has used funding freezes to pressure universities to change their policies and practices on admissions, sports, transgender issues and other areas over allegations of antisemitism and civil rights violations — as in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050654/trump-is-freezing-hundreds-of-grants-to-ucla-over-suspected-antisemitism\">case of UCLA\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Trump administration has proposed slashing \u003ca href=\"https://www.aau.edu/key-issues/federal-research-cuts-threaten-us-innovation-and-leadership\">more than $27 billion in funds\u003c/a> to the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, NASA and the Department of Energy’s Office of Science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing now at the federal level is nothing short of horrifying. …. Science has been one of the pillars of American prosperity,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who introduced SB 607 with Assemblymember José Luis Solache Jr. (D-Lynwood).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996136\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996136\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021822-UCLA-Campus-File-RN-CM-45-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021822-UCLA-Campus-File-RN-CM-45-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021822-UCLA-Campus-File-RN-CM-45-copy-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021822-UCLA-Campus-File-RN-CM-45-copy-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021822-UCLA-Campus-File-RN-CM-45-copy-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021822-UCLA-Campus-File-RN-CM-45-copy-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/021822-UCLA-Campus-File-RN-CM-45-copy-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UCLA campus in Los Angeles on Feb. 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Raquel Natalicchio for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“California needs to lead, and we are already a leader on science,” Wiener said. “We should double and triple down on that leadership and make California the absolute global epicenter of scientific research and discovery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California estimates it could lose a significant portion of the roughly \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/letter-president-james-b-milliken-uc-community\">$5.7 billion\u003c/a> in federal research and program support dollars it receives annually. The Trump administration has already taken steps to freeze about $584 million of that funding at UCLA, though a judge \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2025/08/trump-ucla-research-grants/\">ordered the government\u003c/a> last month to restore some of the grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government has said that some of the research projects targeted for funding cuts are no longer priorities. At other times, the administration has used funding freezes to pressure universities to change their policies and practices on admissions, sports, transgender issues and other areas over allegations of antisemitism and civil rights violations — as in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050654/trump-is-freezing-hundreds-of-grants-to-ucla-over-suspected-antisemitism\">case of UCLA\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and Jesse Arreguín, D-Oakland, who have been negotiating the terms of a $750 million loan with the governor’s office, released a joint statement on Saturday responding to what they called the Department of Finance’s “decision to stop [the] Bay Area transit funding agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Governor’s Department of Finance informed lawmakers it will not be finalizing a critical bridge loan to prevent serious service cuts to BART, Muni, AC Transit and other Bay Area public transit operators next year,” the senators said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener clarified in a call to KQED that the department has not stopped the funding agreement entirely, but merely seeks to extend talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Department of Finance has indicated that they want to keep working on it over the fall, potentially for action next January,” Wiener said. “And that’s a problem because if our transit systems don’t have confidence that the money and financial support are coming, they’re going to have to start making cuts to service and that would be terrible for the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom’s Department of Finance pushed back on the idea that delaying the deal would lead to immediate service cuts, saying it was the department’s understanding that local transit agencies don’t need backfill funding until the middle of 2026 at the earliest. That, the department argued, still leaves time for the deal to be finalized next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and state lawmakers agreed to the loan earlier this summer and have been working ever since to finalize its terms. The legislature faces a Sept. 12 deadline to pass bills during this session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12043556 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20241204-BART-JY-003_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s essential that this loan happen,” Wiener and Arreguín wrote in the joint statement on Saturday. “The state needs to step up and ensure we don’t see debilitating service cuts at BART, Muni, Caltrain, AC Transit, and other operators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The senators have been working to put a regional funding ballot measure before voters during the November 2026 election. 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We could see stations closed,” BART board of directors member Edward Wright told KQED on Friday. “We could see a dramatic reduction in our service hours and a dramatic reduction in service frequency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener and Arreguín pointed to a systemwide BART outage on Friday morning as an example of what residents might expect from a future with reduced services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even on a Friday, when fewer people commute to the office, BART service shutting down meant our roads were choked with bumper-to-bumper traffic throughout the day, children and working people lost access to school and work, and our air got more polluted,” the senators said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART’s current financial troubles mirror those of other local agencies. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s essential that this loan happen,” Wiener and Arreguín wrote in the joint statement on Saturday. “The state needs to step up and ensure we don’t see debilitating service cuts at BART, Muni, Caltrain, AC Transit, and other operators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The senators have been working to put a regional funding ballot measure before voters during the November 2026 election. But even if approved, that funding would not begin until 2027 — the state loan was meant to help bridge that gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Saturday afternoon interview, Wiener declined to comment on the specifics of his conversations with state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a specific sticking point; this is about just having the will to get it done this coming week,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, a spokesperson for the Department of Finance said the department hasn’t had enough time to review the legislature’s latest proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although their need for financial assistance in the 2026–27 budget year has been known for months, the Administration only received an outline of proposed loan terms from the Legislature two days ago — still short of a legislative proposal that is necessary to resolve this issue,” the spokesperson wrote. “We’re committed to developing solutions that will support riders and transit agencies alike in a timely manner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART officials have warned of drastic cuts without the temporary funding, saying they face a $350 to $400 million annual deficit beginning in the 2027 fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Were we not able to secure the $750 million temporary loan, we could see two of BART’s five lines cancelled. We could see stations closed,” BART board of directors member Edward Wright told KQED on Friday. “We could see a dramatic reduction in our service hours and a dramatic reduction in service frequency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener and Arreguín pointed to a systemwide BART outage on Friday morning as an example of what residents might expect from a future with reduced services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even on a Friday, when fewer people commute to the office, BART service shutting down meant our roads were choked with bumper-to-bumper traffic throughout the day, children and working people lost access to school and work, and our air got more polluted,” the senators said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART’s current financial troubles mirror those of other local agencies. Officials say emergency funding implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic will run out next year, but ridership rates never fully recovered as many employers embraced remote work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some transit agency officials, the larger concern is not the immediate potential cuts, but rather the cascading impacts down the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The real fear is, aside from the degree to which that will provide an incredibly bad experience for people who rely on transit, it also could trigger what’s been referred to as a doom loop,” Wright said. “The worse our service becomes, the less people will want to ride it. The less people ride it, the less we’re gaining in fare revenue and the bigger our deficit grows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Clarification: This story has been updated to reflect new comments from state Sen. Scott Wiener clarifying that state finance officials have not fully ended talks over the bridge loan, but instead want to extend negotiations beyond this legislative session. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After weeks of tense negotiations with California lawmakers, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed legislation that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036917/bill-reform-controversial-environmental-law-faces-first-legislative-hurdle\">promises to make big changes\u003c/a> to the state’s landmark environmental law, calling it the “most consequential housing reform we’ve seen in modern history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two bills — AB 609 from Asm. Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, and SB 607, by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco — were folded into addendums to the state budget, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/06/27/budget/\">approved Friday\u003c/a>. They both take aim at the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/environment/ceqa\">1970 California Environmental Quality Act\u003c/a>, known as CEQA (pronounced “see-kwah” in state legislative parlance), which has been the ire of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/03/ceqa-infill-housing-wicks/\">housing\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/06/ceqa-environmental-law-reform/\">advocates\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://lhc.ca.gov/report/california-environmental-quality-act-ceqa/\">oversight agencies\u003c/a> for years. Critics claim its ever-broadening scope and lengthy review process have slowed development and made it too expensive to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This budget that is connected to [those reforms] is a budget that builds,” Newsom said Monday. “It’s not just a housing package, it’s also about infrastructure, it’s also about high speed rail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, however, reforming CEQA has been a divisive issue among state Democrats, due to its ardent support among labor, \u003ca href=\"https://ceja.org/what-we-do/green-zones/ceqa-case-studies/\">environmental\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ceqaworks.org/\">groups\u003c/a> and others, who have heralded it as one of the \u003ca href=\"https://w.ecovote.org/california-environmental-quality-act-the-myths-vs-the-facts/\">most important tools\u003c/a> to fight pollution and sprawl. And they often point to \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3956250\">studies \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cp-dr.com/articles/how-long-can-the-swiss-cheese-approach-ceqa-go/b24c31e081204b8eb4cbbf4f6313f2db\">calling into question\u003c/a> whether it truly stops development from moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Baker, state policy director for the Planning and Conservation League, an environmental advocacy group, said he was particularly concerned with the provisions in SB 607, which he called “the worst rollback of environmental and public health protections” the state has seen in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Side-stepping the legislative process in a fast-track budget deal that has had zero transparency for such significant changes to the one law that gives our communities voice in the planning decisions that affect them is just simply a disgrace to our democracy,” he said. “This is the way you do bad things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046617\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction is underway on an affordable housing apartment building at 2550 Irving Street in San Francisco’s Sunset District on May 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But as the state seeks to make housing more affordable and meet its energy goals, Wiener said it needs to be easier for projects to get approved and built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The high costs devastating our communities stem directly from our extreme shortage of housing, childcare, affordable healthcare, and so many of the other things families need to thrive,” he said in a statement shortly after the Legislature’s vote. “These bills get red tape and major process hurdles out of the way, allowing us to finally start addressing these shortages and securing an affordable California and a brighter future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, legislators have taken a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cp-dr.com/articles/how-long-can-the-swiss-cheese-approach-ceqa-go/b24c31e081204b8eb4cbbf4f6313f2db\">Swiss cheese\u003c/a>” approach to CEQA reform, bypassing the more onerous requirements by exempting \u003ca href=\"https://www.scag.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/ceqa_exemptions_for_housing_projects_-_project_eligibility_review_matrix.pdf\">certain kinds of development\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-27/california-lawmakers-ceqa-exemption-environmental-law-capitol-annex-renovation\">even\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959483/legislation-that-could-push-peoples-park-student-housing-project-forward-heads-to-newsom\">specific\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-stadium-bills-failures-20170411-story.html\">projects\u003c/a>. But the two bills included in this year’s budget aim to make bolder moves: AB 609 exempts all urban housing development from individually going through the review process, while SB 607 exempts another nine categories of projects from review under the law, if they meet certain criteria, and narrows its scope for a variety of projects by avoiding what Wiener described as “repetitive” studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-14/newsom-announces-support-for-ceqa-exemption-bills\">publicly supported these bills\u003c/a> when he included them in his revised budget in May, but his strongest endorsement came last week, when he \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB102\">required\u003c/a> the bills to be included in two “trailer bills” — AB 130 and SB 131 — and approved, or the budget would be repealed entirely.[aside postID=news_12046283 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240718-BerkeleyMissingMiddleHousing-24-BL_qed.jpg']“It was too urgent, too important to allow the process to unfold as it has for the last generation, invariably falling prey to all kinds of pratfall and I was too concerned that that would indeed occur again if we allowed this process to unfold in the traditional way,” Newsom said, addressing criticism that the bills were fast-tracked. “If we can’t address this issue, we’re going to lose trust, and that’s just the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Elmendorf, a land-use and housing law expert at the UC Davis School of Law, called the maneuver “pretty bold.” The governor typically remains on the sidelines during legislative battles, he said, especially those involving controversial housing bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He doesn’t really get involved in arm-twisting in the legislature, [but he] did the most intensive form of arm-twisting which is available to him,” Elmendorf said. “Because we need a budget. And in fact, if the budget isn’t passed on time, legislators don’t get paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That arm-twisting is partly what concerns environmental groups that wanted more public discussion about what these bills would do before they got signed into law. Asha Sharma, state policy manager for the Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability, said she wanted to see Newsom taking a stronger stance to uphold environmental protections in California, especially amidst \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-launches-biggest-deregulatory-action-us-history\">federal\u003c/a> rollbacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CEQA is really the only way that we have any type of voice or say in what these projects look like,” she said. “It is really concerning that that is where [Newsom’s] priorities are, especially in such a precarious moment at a federal level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1997px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046618\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1997\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed.jpg 1997w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1997px) 100vw, 1997px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mother and daughter watch the construction from the balcony of their new home, which they helped to build in the Central Commons development in Fremont, California, on June 17, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But housing advocates argue that protecting the environment is at the heart of the two bills featured in the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Language from Wick’s bill is included in trailer bill \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB130\">AB 130\u003c/a>, which exempts infill housing — homes built within an existing city — from lengthy CEQA reviews. If it’s easier for developers to build homes in denser areas, Wicks argues it could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by longer commutes to \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2014/01/06/suburban-sprawl-cancels-carbon-footprint-savings-of-dense-urban-cores/\">far-off\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://unu.edu/article/suburban-living-worst-carbon-emissions-new-research\">suburbs\u003c/a>. Apartments also tend to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=11731\">use less energy\u003c/a> than detached homes, according to the US Energy Information Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these places that are already urban, already developed, already have infrastructure … that type of housing development is by far the most environmentally beneficial,” said Matthew Lewis, spokesperson for the housing lobbying group, CA YIMBY. “What these bills do is they basically codify that by saying, we recognize that these types of homes are good for the environment and therefore do not have to go through these extensive environmental processes.”[aside postID=news_12011579 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-45-KQED.jpg']Trailer bill \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB131\">SB 131\u003c/a>, which includes Wiener’s bill, makes more technical changes to CEQA reviews, but ultimately tries to avoid redundancies in the process. Among other provisions, the bill includes a number of CEQA exemptions for certain categories of development, including high-speed rail, trails and wildfire mitigation projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also exempts advanced manufacturing facilities in industrial areas, a feature Wiener hopes will spur the production of electronics and semiconductors in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing a new kind of manufacturing that we’re trying to reshore into the US, whether it’s semiconductors, electronics, other kinds of advanced technology that we want to be produced here,” Wiener told KQED. “And the last thing we want is for California to get skipped over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But environmental groups say this exemption is precisely what concerns them about the bill. Semiconductor factories often require significant amounts of water to fabricate microchips and can release hazardous chemicals into the air and water supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers build at 750 Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco on June 18, 2025, during a groundbreaking ceremony marking the start of two affordable housing projects. One will deliver 75 units prioritized for SFUSD and City College educators, and the other at 850 Turk will add 92 family apartments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley garnered international esteem for its semiconductor and microprocessor facilities, but now has \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/superfund/search-superfund-sites-where-you-live\">23 toxic Superfund sites,\u003c/a> a designation the Environmental Protection Agency gives to the worst hazardous waste sites in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are examples across the state of how the communities surrounding these facilities have just really experienced a lot of health harm,” Raquel Mason, senior legislative manager with the California Environmental Justice Alliance, said at a press conference opposing the bill. “This is why CEQA [was created], so that we can have this review and make sure that there’s safety and health considerations for projects exactly like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to housing, however, some advocates argue those reviews can result in more process than progress. They have criticized \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002905/it-was-a-sleepy-year-for-housing-legislation-here-are-some-that-made-it-through\">recent legislation as being ineffective\u003c/a> because they made too many concessions to environmental groups and often fell into an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/opinion/democrats-liberalism.html\">everything bagel black hole\u003c/a> of qualifications — an idea central to the burgeoning \u003ca href=\"https://www.abundancenetwork.com/the-movement/\">Abundance\u003c/a> movement. That Newsom fought to get Wicks’ and Wiener’s bills passed so quickly is telling, Lewis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CEQA has been the third rail of California politics for decades, but Lewis argued the state no longer has the luxury to delay the housing it needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is just fundamentally irresponsible to be blocking homes in California cities in 2025 when we’re seeing the incredible heat waves across the country. We’re seeing wildfires, we’re seeing flooding, we’re seeing storms destroy entire communities, all because of the pollution caused from sprawl and traffic and other pollution,” he said. “It’s time to get over that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Baker, state policy director for the Planning and Conservation League, an environmental advocacy group, said he was particularly concerned with the provisions in SB 607, which he called “the worst rollback of environmental and public health protections” the state has seen in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Side-stepping the legislative process in a fast-track budget deal that has had zero transparency for such significant changes to the one law that gives our communities voice in the planning decisions that affect them is just simply a disgrace to our democracy,” he said. “This is the way you do bad things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046617\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction is underway on an affordable housing apartment building at 2550 Irving Street in San Francisco’s Sunset District on May 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But as the state seeks to make housing more affordable and meet its energy goals, Wiener said it needs to be easier for projects to get approved and built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The high costs devastating our communities stem directly from our extreme shortage of housing, childcare, affordable healthcare, and so many of the other things families need to thrive,” he said in a statement shortly after the Legislature’s vote. “These bills get red tape and major process hurdles out of the way, allowing us to finally start addressing these shortages and securing an affordable California and a brighter future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, legislators have taken a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cp-dr.com/articles/how-long-can-the-swiss-cheese-approach-ceqa-go/b24c31e081204b8eb4cbbf4f6313f2db\">Swiss cheese\u003c/a>” approach to CEQA reform, bypassing the more onerous requirements by exempting \u003ca href=\"https://www.scag.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/ceqa_exemptions_for_housing_projects_-_project_eligibility_review_matrix.pdf\">certain kinds of development\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-27/california-lawmakers-ceqa-exemption-environmental-law-capitol-annex-renovation\">even\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959483/legislation-that-could-push-peoples-park-student-housing-project-forward-heads-to-newsom\">specific\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-stadium-bills-failures-20170411-story.html\">projects\u003c/a>. But the two bills included in this year’s budget aim to make bolder moves: AB 609 exempts all urban housing development from individually going through the review process, while SB 607 exempts another nine categories of projects from review under the law, if they meet certain criteria, and narrows its scope for a variety of projects by avoiding what Wiener described as “repetitive” studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-14/newsom-announces-support-for-ceqa-exemption-bills\">publicly supported these bills\u003c/a> when he included them in his revised budget in May, but his strongest endorsement came last week, when he \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB102\">required\u003c/a> the bills to be included in two “trailer bills” — AB 130 and SB 131 — and approved, or the budget would be repealed entirely.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It was too urgent, too important to allow the process to unfold as it has for the last generation, invariably falling prey to all kinds of pratfall and I was too concerned that that would indeed occur again if we allowed this process to unfold in the traditional way,” Newsom said, addressing criticism that the bills were fast-tracked. “If we can’t address this issue, we’re going to lose trust, and that’s just the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Elmendorf, a land-use and housing law expert at the UC Davis School of Law, called the maneuver “pretty bold.” The governor typically remains on the sidelines during legislative battles, he said, especially those involving controversial housing bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He doesn’t really get involved in arm-twisting in the legislature, [but he] did the most intensive form of arm-twisting which is available to him,” Elmendorf said. “Because we need a budget. And in fact, if the budget isn’t passed on time, legislators don’t get paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That arm-twisting is partly what concerns environmental groups that wanted more public discussion about what these bills would do before they got signed into law. Asha Sharma, state policy manager for the Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability, said she wanted to see Newsom taking a stronger stance to uphold environmental protections in California, especially amidst \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-launches-biggest-deregulatory-action-us-history\">federal\u003c/a> rollbacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CEQA is really the only way that we have any type of voice or say in what these projects look like,” she said. “It is really concerning that that is where [Newsom’s] priorities are, especially in such a precarious moment at a federal level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1997px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046618\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1997\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed.jpg 1997w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1997px) 100vw, 1997px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mother and daughter watch the construction from the balcony of their new home, which they helped to build in the Central Commons development in Fremont, California, on June 17, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But housing advocates argue that protecting the environment is at the heart of the two bills featured in the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Language from Wick’s bill is included in trailer bill \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB130\">AB 130\u003c/a>, which exempts infill housing — homes built within an existing city — from lengthy CEQA reviews. If it’s easier for developers to build homes in denser areas, Wicks argues it could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by longer commutes to \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2014/01/06/suburban-sprawl-cancels-carbon-footprint-savings-of-dense-urban-cores/\">far-off\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://unu.edu/article/suburban-living-worst-carbon-emissions-new-research\">suburbs\u003c/a>. Apartments also tend to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=11731\">use less energy\u003c/a> than detached homes, according to the US Energy Information Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these places that are already urban, already developed, already have infrastructure … that type of housing development is by far the most environmentally beneficial,” said Matthew Lewis, spokesperson for the housing lobbying group, CA YIMBY. “What these bills do is they basically codify that by saying, we recognize that these types of homes are good for the environment and therefore do not have to go through these extensive environmental processes.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Trailer bill \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB131\">SB 131\u003c/a>, which includes Wiener’s bill, makes more technical changes to CEQA reviews, but ultimately tries to avoid redundancies in the process. Among other provisions, the bill includes a number of CEQA exemptions for certain categories of development, including high-speed rail, trails and wildfire mitigation projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also exempts advanced manufacturing facilities in industrial areas, a feature Wiener hopes will spur the production of electronics and semiconductors in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing a new kind of manufacturing that we’re trying to reshore into the US, whether it’s semiconductors, electronics, other kinds of advanced technology that we want to be produced here,” Wiener told KQED. “And the last thing we want is for California to get skipped over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But environmental groups say this exemption is precisely what concerns them about the bill. Semiconductor factories often require significant amounts of water to fabricate microchips and can release hazardous chemicals into the air and water supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers build at 750 Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco on June 18, 2025, during a groundbreaking ceremony marking the start of two affordable housing projects. One will deliver 75 units prioritized for SFUSD and City College educators, and the other at 850 Turk will add 92 family apartments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley garnered international esteem for its semiconductor and microprocessor facilities, but now has \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/superfund/search-superfund-sites-where-you-live\">23 toxic Superfund sites,\u003c/a> a designation the Environmental Protection Agency gives to the worst hazardous waste sites in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are examples across the state of how the communities surrounding these facilities have just really experienced a lot of health harm,” Raquel Mason, senior legislative manager with the California Environmental Justice Alliance, said at a press conference opposing the bill. “This is why CEQA [was created], so that we can have this review and make sure that there’s safety and health considerations for projects exactly like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to housing, however, some advocates argue those reviews can result in more process than progress. They have criticized \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002905/it-was-a-sleepy-year-for-housing-legislation-here-are-some-that-made-it-through\">recent legislation as being ineffective\u003c/a> because they made too many concessions to environmental groups and often fell into an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/opinion/democrats-liberalism.html\">everything bagel black hole\u003c/a> of qualifications — an idea central to the burgeoning \u003ca href=\"https://www.abundancenetwork.com/the-movement/\">Abundance\u003c/a> movement. That Newsom fought to get Wicks’ and Wiener’s bills passed so quickly is telling, Lewis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CEQA has been the third rail of California politics for decades, but Lewis argued the state no longer has the luxury to delay the housing it needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is just fundamentally irresponsible to be blocking homes in California cities in 2025 when we’re seeing the incredible heat waves across the country. We’re seeing wildfires, we’re seeing flooding, we’re seeing storms destroy entire communities, all because of the pollution caused from sprawl and traffic and other pollution,” he said. “It’s time to get over that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Masked federal officers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043596/protesters-swarm-sf-immigration-court-after-more-ice-arrests\">descending on workplaces and immigration courts\u003c/a> in dramatic scenes across the country, have drawn comparisons to secret police in authoritarian regimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under a new state bill from two Bay Area lawmakers, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers and others would have to identify themselves while working in California. The legislation introduced Monday by state Sens. Scott Wiener (D–San Francisco) and Jesse Arreguín (D–Berkeley) would prevent police at all levels from covering their faces with masks or balaclavas while working — and would require them to be identifiable via uniform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing more and more law enforcement officers, particularly at the federal level, be in our community covering their faces entirely, not identifying themselves at all,” Wiener said at a press conference at San Francisco City Hall. “You can’t tell — are these law enforcement officers or a vigilante militia?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 627, dubbed the No Secret Police Act, comes as tensions have escalated between the state and the Trump administration, which has vowed to carry out the \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114690267066155731\">largest deportation\u003c/a> campaign in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No specific federal law requires law enforcement to wear uniforms or show their faces during arrests. 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Jesse Arreguín speaks during a press conference with leaders from community groups throughout Alameda County in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland on Jan. 22, 2025, to discuss support for immigrant families in the Bay Area after President Donald Trump promised mass deportations. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Arreguín and Wiener say the masks allow officers to evade accountability for their actions, adding that more transparency is needed around who is conducting these immigration operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People covering their faces, impersonating police officers — it erodes trust in law enforcement and it undermines community safety,” Arreguín said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE declined to comment on the bill, saying that the agency does not comment on pending legislation. 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"content": "\u003cp>A controversial bill that would allow \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031302/wieners-controversial-bill-to-allow-housing-near-transit-is-back\">more apartments near public transit\u003c/a> stations throughout California narrowly squeaked through the state Senate on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB79\">SB 79\u003c/a>, needed 21 “yes” votes to pass, and it had none to spare, with senators voting 21–13 to advance it to the Assembly. Authored by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, SB 79 would enable the construction of buildings between four and nine stories tall near certain high-frequency bus stations, train and ferry stops. Wiener said the goals of the bill are twofold: to buoy beleaguered public transit agencies still recovering from \u003ca href=\"https://www.metro.net/about/la-metro-kicks-off-2025-with-continued-ridership-growth/#:~:text=January%20year%2Dover%2Dyear%20ridership,of%20its%20pre%2Dpandemic%20level.\">pandemic-era\u003c/a> ridership dips and to boost housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see that we do have [transit] systems in California that don’t have a lot of housing around it, and they have low ridership as a result,” Wiener said on the Senate floor on Tuesday. “And so the purpose of this bill is to say, ‘Let’s focus more housing around the highest-quality public transportation, where we have made significant public investments of tax dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previous attempts to pass similar measures — most recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798945/__trashed-4\">SB 50 in 2020\u003c/a> and its predecessor, SB 857, which was first introduced in 2018 — died in the legislature before making it to the governor’s desk. The latest iteration comes as the state’s Democratic legislature, reeling from the results of the 2024 national election, has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/02/california-affordability-housing-costs-legislation/#:~:text=At%20least%20250%20of%20the,improve%20services%2C%E2%80%9D%20Miller%20said.\">vowed to take on the issue of affordability\u003c/a>, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031302/wieners-controversial-bill-to-allow-housing-near-transit-is-back\">without a clear consensus\u003c/a> on just how to achieve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Senate floor on Tuesday, those differences were on display, with opponents of the bill claiming it lacks clear affordability requirements and supporters pointing to the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/new-housing-fails-to-make-up-for-decades-of-undersupply/\">housing shortage\u003c/a> as the primary driver of \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/793\">rising home costs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042698\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Housing_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Housing_5.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Housing_5-800x517.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Housing_5-1020x659.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Housing_5-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Housing_5-1536x992.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under SB 79, transit stops would be separated into “tiers” based on the frequency of the service and location. Heavy rail lines, such as BART and Caltrain, could see taller apartments, and lower-frequency commuter lines, such as SMART Rail and ferry stops, would see less intensive development. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Darren Tu/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sen. Lola Smallwood Cuevas, D-Los Angeles, agreed with the bill’s basic premise to prioritize new housing around transit, but worried that without stronger anti-displacement measures, it would allow new development to push out lower-income residents, who are also most likely to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/05/la-gentrification-public-transit/\">ride public transportation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I don’t see enough opportunity in this bill to stop the massive displacement,” she said before ultimately abstaining from a vote. “There is no mention of community benefits. There’s no mention in terms of — how do we ensure that our most vulnerable communities, that are at the most risk of being displaced, how do we ensure that they have an opportunity to fully participate?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill requires developers to abide by local inclusionary housing mandates and allows them to take advantage of existing \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB423\">permit streamlining\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=65915&lawCode=GOV\">density bonus\u003c/a> laws, which would trigger built-in affordability requirements, Wiener noted. If developers opt out, they would have to go through the same public process they undergo now. But he added, the bill’s premise — to allow apartments in areas where they wouldn’t otherwise be permitted — also makes affordable housing easier to build.[aside postID=news_12031302 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-1020x680.jpg']“Low-density housing means no affordable housing because you’re not going to have affordable housing unless you have a certain level of multi-unit density,” he said, noting that the Nonprofit Housing Association of Northern California, which had earlier been opposed to the bill, was now in \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB79\">support\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also faced bipartisan opposition from senators who said it would override cities’ ability to plan for housing in their communities by allowing transit agencies to have more control over what gets built near stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bill also allows transit agencies to become de facto land developers,” Sen. Kelly Seyarto, R-Murrieta, said. “And the need to make land use decisions based on agency fiscal needs will taint the need to act in the best interest of the public and the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://cayimby.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/SB-79-Wiener-Fact-Sheet-5.14.25.pdf\">the proposed legislation\u003c/a>, apartment buildings would be the tallest directly adjacent to a transit stop, stepping down with a quarter-mile and again within a half-mile. The transit systems would be further separated into “tiers” based on the type of system, frequency of service and where the transit agencies are located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heavy rail and high-frequency commuter trains — such as BART, Caltrain and LA Metro’s B and D lines — would have the most intensive housing development near stations and ferry stops or commuter rail, such as the SMART Rail, having the least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042675\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apartment buildings under construction near Macarthur BART station in Oakland, on Feb. 21, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Transit stops located in counties with fewer than 15 rail stations would be subject to the least intensive development standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Josh Becker, D-Menlo Park, who ultimately voted in support of the measure, said he was concerned that cities are already required to demonstrate to the state how they plan to accommodate new housing in their communities through a process called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/regional-housing-needs-allocation\">Regional Housing Needs Allocation\u003c/a>, and this bill undermines it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many cities only recently completed those [plans], where we told them, ‘Hey, you pick where you zone,’” he said. “And then, here, we’re coming along and saying, ‘Hey, and by the way, we’re gonna choose for you in these areas.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent amendment to the bill allows jurisdictions to present their own proposals to the state’s housing department to increase density around transit stops. That could mean allowing more housing near one station within a city and less around another, or building taller apartments on one side of a station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is very important to me to give cities additional flexibility to say, ‘We understand what you’re trying to do. We want to do it in a somewhat different way,’” Wiener said, adding that flexibility is already written into the bill. “I know we can make it even better, and I’m committed to doing that work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previous attempts to pass similar measures — most recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798945/__trashed-4\">SB 50 in 2020\u003c/a> and its predecessor, SB 857, which was first introduced in 2018 — died in the legislature before making it to the governor’s desk. The latest iteration comes as the state’s Democratic legislature, reeling from the results of the 2024 national election, has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/02/california-affordability-housing-costs-legislation/#:~:text=At%20least%20250%20of%20the,improve%20services%2C%E2%80%9D%20Miller%20said.\">vowed to take on the issue of affordability\u003c/a>, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031302/wieners-controversial-bill-to-allow-housing-near-transit-is-back\">without a clear consensus\u003c/a> on just how to achieve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Senate floor on Tuesday, those differences were on display, with opponents of the bill claiming it lacks clear affordability requirements and supporters pointing to the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/new-housing-fails-to-make-up-for-decades-of-undersupply/\">housing shortage\u003c/a> as the primary driver of \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/793\">rising home costs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042698\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Housing_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Housing_5.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Housing_5-800x517.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Housing_5-1020x659.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Housing_5-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Housing_5-1536x992.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under SB 79, transit stops would be separated into “tiers” based on the frequency of the service and location. Heavy rail lines, such as BART and Caltrain, could see taller apartments, and lower-frequency commuter lines, such as SMART Rail and ferry stops, would see less intensive development. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Darren Tu/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sen. Lola Smallwood Cuevas, D-Los Angeles, agreed with the bill’s basic premise to prioritize new housing around transit, but worried that without stronger anti-displacement measures, it would allow new development to push out lower-income residents, who are also most likely to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/05/la-gentrification-public-transit/\">ride public transportation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I don’t see enough opportunity in this bill to stop the massive displacement,” she said before ultimately abstaining from a vote. “There is no mention of community benefits. There’s no mention in terms of — how do we ensure that our most vulnerable communities, that are at the most risk of being displaced, how do we ensure that they have an opportunity to fully participate?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill requires developers to abide by local inclusionary housing mandates and allows them to take advantage of existing \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB423\">permit streamlining\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=65915&lawCode=GOV\">density bonus\u003c/a> laws, which would trigger built-in affordability requirements, Wiener noted. If developers opt out, they would have to go through the same public process they undergo now. But he added, the bill’s premise — to allow apartments in areas where they wouldn’t otherwise be permitted — also makes affordable housing easier to build.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Low-density housing means no affordable housing because you’re not going to have affordable housing unless you have a certain level of multi-unit density,” he said, noting that the Nonprofit Housing Association of Northern California, which had earlier been opposed to the bill, was now in \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB79\">support\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also faced bipartisan opposition from senators who said it would override cities’ ability to plan for housing in their communities by allowing transit agencies to have more control over what gets built near stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bill also allows transit agencies to become de facto land developers,” Sen. Kelly Seyarto, R-Murrieta, said. “And the need to make land use decisions based on agency fiscal needs will taint the need to act in the best interest of the public and the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://cayimby.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/SB-79-Wiener-Fact-Sheet-5.14.25.pdf\">the proposed legislation\u003c/a>, apartment buildings would be the tallest directly adjacent to a transit stop, stepping down with a quarter-mile and again within a half-mile. The transit systems would be further separated into “tiers” based on the type of system, frequency of service and where the transit agencies are located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heavy rail and high-frequency commuter trains — such as BART, Caltrain and LA Metro’s B and D lines — would have the most intensive housing development near stations and ferry stops or commuter rail, such as the SMART Rail, having the least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042675\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apartment buildings under construction near Macarthur BART station in Oakland, on Feb. 21, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Transit stops located in counties with fewer than 15 rail stations would be subject to the least intensive development standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Josh Becker, D-Menlo Park, who ultimately voted in support of the measure, said he was concerned that cities are already required to demonstrate to the state how they plan to accommodate new housing in their communities through a process called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/regional-housing-needs-allocation\">Regional Housing Needs Allocation\u003c/a>, and this bill undermines it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many cities only recently completed those [plans], where we told them, ‘Hey, you pick where you zone,’” he said. “And then, here, we’re coming along and saying, ‘Hey, and by the way, we’re gonna choose for you in these areas.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent amendment to the bill allows jurisdictions to present their own proposals to the state’s housing department to increase density around transit stops. That could mean allowing more housing near one station within a city and less around another, or building taller apartments on one side of a station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is very important to me to give cities additional flexibility to say, ‘We understand what you’re trying to do. We want to do it in a somewhat different way,’” Wiener said, adding that flexibility is already written into the bill. “I know we can make it even better, and I’m committed to doing that work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Afternoon rush hour brought the sounds of hundreds, if not thousands, of people \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997857/barts-new-evasion-resistant-gates-arrive-in-san-francisco-for-the-first-time\">tagging their Clipper cards\u003c/a> and pushing their way through turnstiles on a recent Thursday at Embarcadero station in downtown San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the crowds was Anna Kondolf, from the town of Fairfax in Marin County, who was on her way to a dinner date in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I thought, why don’t we do this more? Because it was just so great to take the ferry here and then take BART,” Kondolf said. “It all kind of works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It works, for now, but that interconnected network of transit could soon be severely reduced. Transit agencies across the Bay Area are forecasting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021178/sf-muni-reducing-bus-light-rail-service-amid-fiscal-crisis-more-cuts-loom\">drastic service cuts\u003c/a> if nothing is done to alleviate multimillion-dollar budget deficits set to begin in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sens. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and Jesse Arreguín, D-Berkeley, earlier this year \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032607/first-look-at-2026-tax-proposal-to-keep-bay-area-transit-running\">introduced a bill\u003c/a>, set to be heard Monday in the state Senate Appropriations Committee, that would put a sales tax on the ballot in some Bay Area counties next year in order to help fund these agencies and save the region’s public transit network as we know it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all need to work together and lock arms and understand that if our transit systems collapse, if we see catastrophic service cuts at Muni, BART, AC Transit and Caltrain, that’s terrible for the entire region,” Wiener told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A slimmed-down tax proposal\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As it is currently written, Wiener and Arreguín’s \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB63\">SB 63\u003c/a> would put a measure on the November 2026 ballot to impose a 0.5% sales tax in Alameda and Contra counties, and a 0.5% to 1% sales tax in San Francisco County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revenue from the tax would primarily go toward funding San Francisco’s Muni, BART, AC Transit and Caltrain. Smaller transit agencies in the East Bay would also be eligible to receive funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11254007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11254007\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-e1483581327477.jpg\" alt=\"The side of a Caltrain train as it enters a station.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrain cars at San José’s Diridon Station, December 2016. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An analysis by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission found that the tax could generate between roughly $440 million and $550 million a year, depending on the tax rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener pulled a similar but farther-reaching bill from consideration last year in the face of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988365/a-bill-to-save-bay-area-transit-from-fiscal-disaster-is-dead-at-least-for-now\">widespread opposition\u003c/a>. That effort would have covered all nine Bay Area counties and aimed to raise $1.5 billion for a wide variety of transit, street and highway improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the bill was narrowed down to just three counties, though it also includes a provision for San Mateo and Santa Clara counties to opt in by a July 31 deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I’m cautiously optimistic about the bill’s prospects, but it ain’t over until it’s over,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Service cuts with deep implications\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Of all the Bay Area’s main transit agencies, BART has the biggest deficit and is forecasting the most severe cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in fiscal year 2026, BART said its budget deficit will balloon to around $385 million. If SB 63 fails, the agency is considering cost-saving scenarios, including cutting two lines entirely, closing on weekends and shutting down the system at 9 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1976px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12039661 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/bart-strike20130804_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1976\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/bart-strike20130804_qed.jpg 1976w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/bart-strike20130804_qed-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/bart-strike20130804_qed-1020x688.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/bart-strike20130804_qed-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/bart-strike20130804_qed-1536x1036.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/bart-strike20130804_qed-1920x1295.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1976px) 100vw, 1976px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train sits idle at the Millbrae station on July 3, 2013, in Millbrae, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re not talking about their ability to continue to sustain the service that they have today by any stretch,” said Rebecca Long, director of legislation and public affairs at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effects of those cuts would not only be isolated to people who take public transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If BART runs out of funding, drivers will sit in traffic for an extra 12 or more hours per week on average,” Laura Tolkoff, transportation policy director at the planning and urban research nonprofit SPUR, said at a media briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shades of that were seen Friday morning when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039472/bart-shuts-down-entire-train-service-due-to-computer-networking-problem\">computer networking problem\u003c/a> completely shut down BART for hours. Traffic on roads and bridges was snarled, with hundreds more Bay Bridge crossings recorded than the Friday before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of activists who support SB 63 took it as an opportunity to remind drivers what’s at stake if transit funding dries up, gathering at the backed-up Interstate 80 westbound off-ramp on Fremont Street in San Francisco with signs in support of BART and Muni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without sufficient funding, these kinds of problems are going to get worse,” transportation activist Cyrus Hall said. “BART’s been running on a shoestring for years, and we need to fix that now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1695px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039665\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MUNI-with-GBUS.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1695\" height=\"1158\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MUNI-with-GBUS.png 1695w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MUNI-with-GBUS-800x547.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MUNI-with-GBUS-1020x697.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MUNI-with-GBUS-160x109.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MUNI-with-GBUS-1536x1049.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1695px) 100vw, 1695px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Area lawmakers are pushing for a regional sales tax measure to stave off drastic transit service cuts, as agencies across the region face mounting budget shortfalls starting in 2026. \u003ccite>(Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Muni, which is facing a deficit of around $320 million beginning July 2026, has discussed the need to cut up to 20 bus lines and reduce service on up to 28 bus and train routes if SB 63 fails, according to a Senate analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AC Transit and Caltrain have smaller deficits (around $30 million and $80 million, respectively) but are still forecasting service cuts without help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, the four agencies represent around 80% of all Bay Area public transit trips, according to Long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most transit agencies, but BART and Caltrain in particular, have historically relied on fares to fund operations, these agencies saw ridership plummet by 70% to 98% due to the pandemic, Long said. And although ridership is \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2025/news20250421#:~:text=Larger%20systems%20also%20saw%20significant,while%20Muni%20increased%20by%204%25.\">slowly recovering\u003c/a>, it still hasn’t returned to pre-pandemic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially, we need to rebuild the business model for transit,” Long said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Different needs, different desires’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he is focused on “trying to build as much regional support as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ It’s complicated because all the different counties have different needs, different desires,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transit agencies’ boards have been meeting in recent weeks to discuss whether to back the measure. The Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board, which oversees Caltrain, voted May 1 to endorse it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Scott Wiener speaks during a press conference in Union Square, San Francisco, on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The board that oversees the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, or VTA, is still weighing whether to endorse Santa Clara County joining the regional sales tax measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a May 1 board meeting, some members expressed concern that Santa Clara County will not get a fair amount of revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, polling commissioned by AC Transit showed that 54% of voters surveyed support a possible future parcel tax, separate from SB 63, to fund operations in the East Bay agency’s district alone.[aside postID=news_12039472 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250509-BARTOUTAGE-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']The bill must be approved by the Senate by June 6 to make it to the Assembly floor. If it survives the Legislature and makes it onto the November 2026 ballot, it would need a simple majority from voters to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/news/new-poll-indicates-majority-support-transit-revenue-and-reform-measure\">poll of voters\u003c/a> in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco and San Mateo counties, commissioned by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and released in February, found that 54% of voters would vote yes on a half-cent sales tax to avoid major transit cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he is working with other lawmakers on a budget request worth $2 billion to fund public transit statewide in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the regional measure is successful, the cash will start coming in in 2027,” Wiener said, “The idea is to make sure that we don’t have to have service cuts before then.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates are stressing the importance of public transit for the overall health of the Bay Area economy, as the region continues to struggle to recover from the economic devastation wrought by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the scaffolding for our economy,” said Tolkoff of SPUR. “When we think of how many organizations are trying to mandate people coming back into the office four or five days a week, we’re hearing that just won’t be possible if people can’t get to work on transit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and Jesse Arreguín, D-Berkeley, earlier this year \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032607/first-look-at-2026-tax-proposal-to-keep-bay-area-transit-running\">introduced a bill\u003c/a>, set to be heard Monday in the state Senate Appropriations Committee, that would put a sales tax on the ballot in some Bay Area counties next year in order to help fund these agencies and save the region’s public transit network as we know it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all need to work together and lock arms and understand that if our transit systems collapse, if we see catastrophic service cuts at Muni, BART, AC Transit and Caltrain, that’s terrible for the entire region,” Wiener told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A slimmed-down tax proposal\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As it is currently written, Wiener and Arreguín’s \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB63\">SB 63\u003c/a> would put a measure on the November 2026 ballot to impose a 0.5% sales tax in Alameda and Contra counties, and a 0.5% to 1% sales tax in San Francisco County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revenue from the tax would primarily go toward funding San Francisco’s Muni, BART, AC Transit and Caltrain. Smaller transit agencies in the East Bay would also be eligible to receive funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11254007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11254007\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-e1483581327477.jpg\" alt=\"The side of a Caltrain train as it enters a station.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrain cars at San José’s Diridon Station, December 2016. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An analysis by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission found that the tax could generate between roughly $440 million and $550 million a year, depending on the tax rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener pulled a similar but farther-reaching bill from consideration last year in the face of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988365/a-bill-to-save-bay-area-transit-from-fiscal-disaster-is-dead-at-least-for-now\">widespread opposition\u003c/a>. That effort would have covered all nine Bay Area counties and aimed to raise $1.5 billion for a wide variety of transit, street and highway improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the bill was narrowed down to just three counties, though it also includes a provision for San Mateo and Santa Clara counties to opt in by a July 31 deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I’m cautiously optimistic about the bill’s prospects, but it ain’t over until it’s over,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Service cuts with deep implications\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Of all the Bay Area’s main transit agencies, BART has the biggest deficit and is forecasting the most severe cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in fiscal year 2026, BART said its budget deficit will balloon to around $385 million. 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And although ridership is \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2025/news20250421#:~:text=Larger%20systems%20also%20saw%20significant,while%20Muni%20increased%20by%204%25.\">slowly recovering\u003c/a>, it still hasn’t returned to pre-pandemic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially, we need to rebuild the business model for transit,” Long said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Different needs, different desires’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he is focused on “trying to build as much regional support as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ It’s complicated because all the different counties have different needs, different desires,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transit agencies’ boards have been meeting in recent weeks to discuss whether to back the measure. The Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board, which oversees Caltrain, voted May 1 to endorse it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California \u003c/a>leaders are pushing for the creation of a state agency for scientific research and vaccine accessibility as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">the Trump administration\u003c/a> continues implementing sweeping cuts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026447/judge-blocks-trump-plan-cut-research-funding-after-california-other-states-sue\">federal funding\u003c/a> for public health research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, introduced by state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/scott-wiener\">Scott Wiener, \u003c/a>D-San Francisco, on Thursday, would create the California Institute for Scientific Research, a new state agency funding grants and loans to organizations that have traditionally relied on the National Institutes of Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal also seeks to bolster the state’s vaccine infrastructure amid a climate of vaccine skepticism promoted by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others in government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and Elon Musk’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029281/musks-costly-cuts-x-will-doge-trump-face-similar-fallout\">Department of Government Efficiency\u003c/a> “are taking a wrecking ball to federal scientific research, and they’re taking a wrecking ball to American leadership,” Wiener told KQED. “If the federal government is going to step back from science leadership, let’s make sure that California is the world leader.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s plans to drastically reduce NIH funding for scientific research after a lawsuit was filed by a coalition of more than two dozen states. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030313/uc-berkeley-scientists-protest-trump-administrations-cuts-to-research-funding\">preliminary injunction was extended\u003c/a> earlier this month after Rhode Island U.S. District Court Judge John McConnell declared the cuts unsupported by any constitutional authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027568\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-20-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-20-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-20-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-20-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-20-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-20-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-20-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Scott Wiener speaks during a press conference in Union Square, San Francisco, on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the judge’s order, some research funding freezes have continued unobstructed through the Trump administration’s use of procedural loopholes prohibiting health officials from giving public notice of grant review meetings, a required step before funding can be disbursed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the NIH — the largest research funding institution in the world — allocated over $30 billion in grants to research projects. The University of California system said it received roughly $2.6 billion in NIH research funding. Wiener said cuts, including those to research that touches on diversity, equity and inclusion, would be a major setback for scientific development.[aside postID=news_12032892 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“In California, we should be supporting scientific research around diverse communities,” said Wiener, who is widely thought to be a contender for Sen. Nancy Pelosi’s House seat in the midterms. “But to be clear, what Trump and Musk are doing is way broader than that. They’re upending all scientific research, DEI and otherwise, and so we need to do what we can to enhance our science research capacity here in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Institute of Scientific Research would fill the void caused by federal funding cuts, Wiener said. The agency would support state institutions and researchers conducting studies in areas including, but not limited to, biomedicine, climate, coastal and marine ecosystems and disease prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would also direct CalRX, a state program that produces and distributes prescription drugs such as generic insulin, to partner with other agencies to improve vaccine accessibility for Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s local public health departments are already reckoning with a measles outbreak, with over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033049/san-mateo-county-measles-case-highlights-risk-for-unvaccinated-expert-sayshttps:/www.kqed.org/news/12033049/san-mateo-county-measles-case-highlights-risk-for-unvaccinated-expert-says\">300 confirmed measles cases\u003c/a> this year. Many experts are attributing the rise in infections to lower vaccination rates in school-age children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy and other health officials have already begun proposing alternatives to traditional vaccinations when it comes to dealing with diseases such as measles. While Kennedy has said the measles vaccine is effective at protecting children from the disease, he also suggested in an op-ed for Fox News that improved nutrition and vitamin intake is the “best defense” against infectious illnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033385\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A syringe is filled with a dose of the Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site inside Reuther Hall at Forty Acres on March 13, 2021, in Delano, California. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State health officials also announced Wednesday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to curtail federal funding for COVID-19 vaccinations and surveillance, further alarming health advocates who are pushing for improved public health initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This COVID-19 rollback of funding at the federal level is just another example of how…we don’t have that kind of support at the federal level, to continue doing important innovative research that will benefit the public and the health of the public,” said Mar Velez, director of policy at the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California. “We’re happy to see that legislators in California are doing their job and setting up infrastructure that will continue to support the health of Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding for the bill is likely to be an obstacle moving forward. If Trump is successful in pushing forth sweeping cuts to critical state programs such as MediCaid, California could face a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032878/gop-cuts-to-medicaid-snap-would-shrink-californias-economy-by-17-billion-and-kill-nearly-140000-jobs-new-study-finds\">severe budget deficit\u003c/a>, Wiener said, adding that state leaders are looking for ways to prepare for the worst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Scientific research is a crucial pillar of California’s economy and of our success, and we should never lose sight of that,” he said. “We’re all nervous. We are all scared…It’s paralyzing the level of harm that [the Trump administration] is doing. We need to all take a deep breath and focus on what we as individuals or as leaders can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/skennedy\">\u003cem>Samantha Kennedy\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“In California, we should be supporting scientific research around diverse communities,” said Wiener, who is widely thought to be a contender for Sen. Nancy Pelosi’s House seat in the midterms. “But to be clear, what Trump and Musk are doing is way broader than that. They’re upending all scientific research, DEI and otherwise, and so we need to do what we can to enhance our science research capacity here in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Institute of Scientific Research would fill the void caused by federal funding cuts, Wiener said. The agency would support state institutions and researchers conducting studies in areas including, but not limited to, biomedicine, climate, coastal and marine ecosystems and disease prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would also direct CalRX, a state program that produces and distributes prescription drugs such as generic insulin, to partner with other agencies to improve vaccine accessibility for Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s local public health departments are already reckoning with a measles outbreak, with over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033049/san-mateo-county-measles-case-highlights-risk-for-unvaccinated-expert-sayshttps:/www.kqed.org/news/12033049/san-mateo-county-measles-case-highlights-risk-for-unvaccinated-expert-says\">300 confirmed measles cases\u003c/a> this year. Many experts are attributing the rise in infections to lower vaccination rates in school-age children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy and other health officials have already begun proposing alternatives to traditional vaccinations when it comes to dealing with diseases such as measles. While Kennedy has said the measles vaccine is effective at protecting children from the disease, he also suggested in an op-ed for Fox News that improved nutrition and vitamin intake is the “best defense” against infectious illnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033385\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A syringe is filled with a dose of the Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site inside Reuther Hall at Forty Acres on March 13, 2021, in Delano, California. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. 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Allowable building heights would decrease farther from the train station or bus rapid transit stop, dropping to as low as four stories within a half-mile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Friday press conference outside the Daly City BART station, Wiener said the bill is aimed at boosting both housing and public transportation agencies across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will offer more housing overall, and it will support our public transportation systems with increased revenue and increased ridership,” Wiener said. “We really need more housing, more and better transit, and the two truly go hand in hand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill echoes the ethos — if not all the myriad provisions — of SB 50, which failed to advance in early 2020 after an earlier iteration of the bill was held in committee the year prior. That bill built off SB 857, which was first introduced in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final version of SB 50 would have not only allowed four- and five-story apartment buildings near train stations, along major bus lines and in job-rich neighborhoods, but also duplexes and fourplexes in many single-family neighborhoods throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said the new bill is much more focused. It only applies to areas around train and ferry stations, along with stops for bus-rapid-transit, a type of bus that has dedicated travel lanes. Height limits scale down depending on the type of transit, so heavy rail and frequent commuter trains — such as BART, LA Metro subway, CalTrain and Burbank Metrolink — would have the tallest limits. The areas around ferries and less frequent commuter-rail services, such as Capitol Corridor, would have the lowest limits.[aside postID=news_11798945 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS25468_20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-1020x680.jpg']“So it’s really focusing on our highest-quality transit,” Wiener said. “And I hope that in the future we have more of that highest-quality transit.” SB 50 faced major backlash from \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-sb50-failure-single-family-homes-suburbs-20190522-story.html\">suburban homeowners\u003c/a> worried about neighborhood change and advocates who were concerned that \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-housing-bill-failure-equity-groups-20180502-story.html\">lower-income residents would be evicted\u003c/a> as a result of increased development, among others. The California League of Cities took an “oppose unless amended” position because of provisions in the bill they said were too ambiguous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Lewis, a spokesperson for the pro-housing lobbying group, CA YIMBY, said the latest iteration of the proposal is more straightforward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The main way to describe this that’s different from those that came before is that it’s a clean upzoning,” Lewis said. “It’s seven stories, and there’s no other conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he said, other new laws, adopted in the intervening years, have since overridden or addressed other concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 9, by former state Sen. Toni Atkins, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980785/these-california-companies-want-to-buy-your-backyard-and-build-a-house\">signed into law in 2021\u003c/a>. It allows homeowners to subdivide their lots and add up to two duplexes in most single-family neighborhoods. Another law, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB330\">SB 330\u003c/a> by former state Sen. Nancy Skinner requires developers offer tenants the right of first refusal in new apartments if they are displaced by development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lens is different now because the legislative landscape is different than it was,” Lewis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanti Singh, however, with advocacy group Tenants Together, said she isn’t convinced. Her organization opposed SB 50 over concerns that it would accelerate displacement of lower-income tenants. Although she hadn’t seen a draft of SB 79 when she spoke to KQED, she said the same concerns very likely still apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have any objection to going after exclusionary communities or making housing easier to build. And we’re certainly not against the idea of buildings being tall,” Singh said. “It’s when you pick a fight with our communities, who desperately need affordable housing, who are facing eviction and displacement, that’s when we get involved.”[aside postID=news_11980785 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SanJose-KSM-6_qut-1020x680.jpg']While the Legislature has, over nearly a decade, passed dozens of laws aimed at cutting regulatory red tape and boosting new construction, the bills largely \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/02/california-yimby-laws-assessment-report/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Are%20CA%20s%20housing%20laws%20building%20more%20homes%3F&utm_campaign=WhatMatters\">haven’t translated into meaningful increases\u003c/a> in new homes, Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What will make a difference, she said, is investing more money into building affordable housing. A $10 billion bond to do that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993185/why-a-10-billion-california-housing-bond-wont-be-on-novembers-ballot\">failed to make it to the November ballot\u003c/a> last year, after facing competition from competing bonds. Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Berkeley) \u003ca href=\"https://a14.asmdc.org/press-releases/20250218-asm-wicks-and-sen-cabaldon-move-forward-tackle-crushing-housing-costs#:~:text=This%20year's%20bond%20proposals%20are,San%20Diego%20Mayor%20Todd%20Gloria.\">reintroduced the bond measure\u003c/a> in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The issue is money,” Singh said. “We just want to keep hammering that point home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other bills have sought to streamline housing near transit. AB 2923, signed into law in 2018, provided some minimum standards for housing near BART stations in Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco counties. While that bill has helped the agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/about/business/tod\">develop housing\u003c/a> on land it owns, BART Director Edward Wright said it’s still too difficult to get new apartments approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It lets BART do our own zoning for more homes, for more businesses,” Wright said. “And it lets us do it quickly, simply, and effectively. Not with months to process, but with a clear purpose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, perhaps even more critically, Wright said, SB 79 could help boost ridership that \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/about/financials/crisis#:~:text=Ridership%20Trends,%25%20of%20pre%2Dpandemic%20expectations.&text=BART%20served%2050.7%20million%20trips,2.6%20million%20trips%20in%202024.\">hasn’t recovered\u003c/a> from the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It supports more homes near our stations, and that means more people taking our trains,” he said, “instead of clogging up our streets and our bridges with more cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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