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"content": "\u003cp>A day after the Trump administration put California on notice that it would try to take back as much as $3.5 billion in federal funding for the state's high-speed rail project, just one thing is clear: The dispute is likely to take months to resolve and could well wind up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronald Batory, the head of the Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration, sent \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5745224/Batory-Letter-to-Kelly-Re-CAHSR-Termination-021919.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a letter\u003c/a> to the California High-Speed Rail Authority on Tuesday informing the agency it intended to revoke \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5745223/Executed-FY10-Amendment-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 2010 agreement\u003c/a> to provide $929 million for construction of the bullet train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter also said the FRA would try to recover another \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5745222/HSRFRA-CooperativeGrantAgreement-Amendment6.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$2.5 billion in funds\u003c/a> granted as part of the federal stimulus program in 2009 -- money that has already been spent on the high-speed rail program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Batory said the federal rail agency was acting after finding that the state had \"materially failed to comply\" with the terms of its grant agreements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's FRA letter came in the midst of a dispute between President Trump and Gov. 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Cow Palace CEO Lisa Marshall did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Than Just a Gun Show Ban\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time around, Wiener is going beyond proposing just a ban on gun sales at the Cow Palace. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His proposal, SB 281, also aims to strip control of the 68-acre site from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cowpalace.com/p/about-us/board\">Cow Palace Board of Directors\u003c/a> and transfer ownership to a local Joint Powers Authority comprised of Daly City, San Francisco and San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This would remove the site from state jurisdiction, which has stymied previous attempts to ban gun and ammunition shows. 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The goal, they say, is to place a regional tax measure on the November 2020 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>No shortage of critics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Critics of the plan question the very idea of a regional approach to the Bay Area’s formidable housing crisis and argue that key constituencies were excluded from the process of drafting the proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan Kirsch, founder of the group Livable California, which advocates for local control in planning, said the compact was created “without input from those communities that value and cherish the character and quality of life in their small communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that the majority of the cities were excluded, that’s unfair,” Kirsch added. “It’s a stacked deck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CASA compact received the endorsement of two regional planning agencies, the Metropolitan Transit Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG). Both votes, though \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719212/despite-strong-opposition-bay-area-officials-endorse-ambitious-regional-affordable-housing-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nonbinding, \u003c/a>were preceded by hours of fierce public debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At both hearings, representatives from the region’s smaller cities voiced concern over forfeiting any housing decisions to a regional entity. And speakers from Peninsula towns hinted at the political perils of ceding local control. In Mountain View, Palo Alto and Los Altos, mayors and council members were defeated in November by challengers advocating slower growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am in the growing wave of voter pushback against state mandates to remove local control,” Los Altos City Councilwoman Anita Enander told the MTC. “I defeated our mayor on a platform of listening to residents and keeping land-use decisions in the hands of local officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Delicate juggling act\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A key tenet of the compact is that all proposals advance in unison at the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our premise is, if you put them together, they have a better chance of passing,” said Michael Covarrubias, head of TMG Partners, a local developer, who co-chaired the CASA committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that commitment to policy unity is merely aspirational. There’s nothing stopping only certain pieces of the agreement from moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figuring out the appropriate protections for renters could be particularly difficult on the heels of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702293/early-results-show-rent-control-measure-trailing-at-polls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defeat of Proposition 10\u003c/a> in November, a measure that sought to expand rent control statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Our premise is, if you put them together, they have a better chance of passing.’\u003ccite>Michael Covarrubias, TMG Partners\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Tenant groups and the California Apartment Association, which represents landlords, both participated in the CASA process, but have distanced themselves from the final proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless the rent control and just-cause eviction elements are removed in their entirety, CAA cannot endorse the proposed CASA Compact and will oppose any related legislation aimed at implementing the rent control and just cause eviction elements,” wrote Joshua Howard, senior vice president of CAA, in a \u003ca href=\"https://caanet.org/app/uploads/2018/12/CASA-Dec-18-2018_MTC-Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December letter\u003c/a> to the MTC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement also proposes a regionwide rent cap that would be equal to the Consumer Price Index plus 5 percent. For a tenant paying $1,500 per month, the maximum allowable increase in monthly rent would be roughly $140.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, a regionwide just-cause eviction policy would require landlords to cite specific causes for eviction, and provide relocation assistance for tenants evicted through no fault of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some tenant groups have argued that these protections are too weak to help Bay Area renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paola Laverde, chair of the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board, said the plan was a great starting point, but called the rent cap a “laughable increase.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As written, these policies will not protect the most vulnerable that need protection,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nod from Newsom\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are some indications, though, that the plan could get a warmer reception among key leaders in Sacramento. During his budget press conference last week, Gov. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>An ambitious plan to tackle the Bay Area’s housing crisis is making its way to the state Capitol, where lawmakers could advance a wide-ranging set of compromises drafted by a coalition of often divergent local interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeking a nine-county solution to a seemingly intractable problem, a broad coalition of developers, tenant advocates, elected officials, business leaders and labor interests created a 10-point plan to address regional housing affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But making the proposal — known as the \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/sites/default/files/CASA_Compact.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CASA Compact\u003c/a> —a reality will require the approval and deft maneuvering of state lawmakers, who are already hearing opposition to various components of the agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A rising tide?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Supporters of CASA (which looks like an acronym but actually doesn’t stand for anything other than the Spanish word for “house”) argue that the plan is the rising tide that will lift all ships, and that collective action will allow stakeholders with less political clout (read: tenants) to achieve meaningful policy gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we need to have a regional approach,” said Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, the chair of the Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development. “We are an economic region, we are a social and a cultural region, and we are a region with the most intense manifestation of the housing crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CASA Compact includes proposals aimed at both spurring new housing construction and protecting existing tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers would be able to tap into streamlined approvals and tax incentives for more housing projects, and minimum zoning standards would be established around transit stops to increase density.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the plan, vulnerable tenants would be aided by a supply of emergency cash and legal assistance, as well as the establishment of a regionwide rent cap and protections against certain kinds of evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the plan’s less controversial proposals push for greater transparency around impact fees charged to developers and encourage the use of surplus public properties for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To raise money for the proposals, the compact suggests the creation of a new Bay Area housing agency, led by elected officials but also including developers and tenant activists, which would levy regional taxes and distribute funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101869236/major-housing-plan-gets-approval-from-mtc-association-of-bay-area-governments\">Forum: Major Housing Plan Gets Approval\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101869236/major-housing-plan-gets-approval-from-mtc-association-of-bay-area-governments\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2017/07/construction-job-1180x664.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Members of the Committee to House the Bay Area, which created the plan, suggest a variety of tax options, including a fee on developers, a tax on businesses, a regionwide sales tax or parcel tax increase, and regional revenue sharing. The goal, they say, is to place a regional tax measure on the November 2020 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>No shortage of critics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Critics of the plan question the very idea of a regional approach to the Bay Area’s formidable housing crisis and argue that key constituencies were excluded from the process of drafting the proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan Kirsch, founder of the group Livable California, which advocates for local control in planning, said the compact was created “without input from those communities that value and cherish the character and quality of life in their small communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that the majority of the cities were excluded, that’s unfair,” Kirsch added. “It’s a stacked deck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CASA compact received the endorsement of two regional planning agencies, the Metropolitan Transit Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG). Both votes, though \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719212/despite-strong-opposition-bay-area-officials-endorse-ambitious-regional-affordable-housing-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nonbinding, \u003c/a>were preceded by hours of fierce public debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At both hearings, representatives from the region’s smaller cities voiced concern over forfeiting any housing decisions to a regional entity. And speakers from Peninsula towns hinted at the political perils of ceding local control. In Mountain View, Palo Alto and Los Altos, mayors and council members were defeated in November by challengers advocating slower growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am in the growing wave of voter pushback against state mandates to remove local control,” Los Altos City Councilwoman Anita Enander told the MTC. “I defeated our mayor on a platform of listening to residents and keeping land-use decisions in the hands of local officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Delicate juggling act\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A key tenet of the compact is that all proposals advance in unison at the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our premise is, if you put them together, they have a better chance of passing,” said Michael Covarrubias, head of TMG Partners, a local developer, who co-chaired the CASA committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that commitment to policy unity is merely aspirational. There’s nothing stopping only certain pieces of the agreement from moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figuring out the appropriate protections for renters could be particularly difficult on the heels of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702293/early-results-show-rent-control-measure-trailing-at-polls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defeat of Proposition 10\u003c/a> in November, a measure that sought to expand rent control statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Our premise is, if you put them together, they have a better chance of passing.’\u003ccite>Michael Covarrubias, TMG Partners\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Tenant groups and the California Apartment Association, which represents landlords, both participated in the CASA process, but have distanced themselves from the final proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless the rent control and just-cause eviction elements are removed in their entirety, CAA cannot endorse the proposed CASA Compact and will oppose any related legislation aimed at implementing the rent control and just cause eviction elements,” wrote Joshua Howard, senior vice president of CAA, in a \u003ca href=\"https://caanet.org/app/uploads/2018/12/CASA-Dec-18-2018_MTC-Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December letter\u003c/a> to the MTC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement also proposes a regionwide rent cap that would be equal to the Consumer Price Index plus 5 percent. For a tenant paying $1,500 per month, the maximum allowable increase in monthly rent would be roughly $140.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, a regionwide just-cause eviction policy would require landlords to cite specific causes for eviction, and provide relocation assistance for tenants evicted through no fault of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some tenant groups have argued that these protections are too weak to help Bay Area renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paola Laverde, chair of the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board, said the plan was a great starting point, but called the rent cap a “laughable increase.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As written, these policies will not protect the most vulnerable that need protection,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nod from Newsom\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are some indications, though, that the plan could get a warmer reception among key leaders in Sacramento. During his budget press conference last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom praised the general idea of the plan, although he offered few specifics about what the next steps would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love the regional approach. The issues of homelessness and housing have to be looked at from a regional perspective,” he said. “That’s exactly the spirit of what they’re trying to advance. I haven’t looked into the details of any legislative package, but it’s certainly the spirit I’m embracing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chairs of the Legislature’s two housing committees, Chiu and state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, are both eager to advance the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CASA would have been unthinkable five or ten years ago,” Wiener said. “These recommendations are bold, aggressive and necessary, and the fact that we’ve achieved such broad regional buy-in shows how quickly the politics of housing has shifted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of the compact recommendations have \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">already been introduced in the Legislature\u003c/a>. Others proposals are expected to be hashed out and unveiled after the Legislature’s Bay Area caucus holds its retreat next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers will also have to figure out what form the recommended regional housing entity will take, or whether the new responsibilities (and the power of the purse) can be folded into an existing regional body like ABAG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Lawmakers in Sacramento kicked off the new legislative session this week with a handful of proposals to help low-income residents avoid homelessness, and help get the tens of thousands of Californians without shelter off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators and advocates are encouraged by the presence of an incoming governor focusing on homelessness and low-income renters, but acknowledge that shelters and supportive and low-income housing will have to compete for state dollars with other top priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the biggest thing is around the budget,” said Sharon Rapport, associate director of the Corporation for Supportive Housing. “We are hoping to get ongoing funding to address the affordable housing crisis and homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, a group of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677958/big-city-mayors-welcome-state-money-for-homeless-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">11 big-city mayors\u003c/a> rallied for the inclusion of $1.5 billion in the state budget for emergency housing and homeless services. The final budget included only a third of that amount, which would be sent to local governments and nonprofits on a one-time basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was much more directed towards those who are already homeless,” said state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the $500 million was a historic expenditure, advocates are hoping for longer-term funding this year that can help pay for the construction of low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they see promise in two ideas that incoming governor Gavin Newsom voiced support for on the campaign trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Bill 10, from Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, would increase the state’s Low-Income Housing Tax Credit by $500 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another bill from Chiu, Assembly Bill 11, would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11709680/state-lawmakers-eye-redevelopment-2-0-to-build-affordable-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bring back redevelopment, \u003c/a>a program formerly used by local governments to capture billions of dollars for low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown ended redevelopment when he took office in 2011, and vetoed a previous proposal to expand the tax credits available for affordable housing developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are coming out of an eight-year period with Jerry Brown where it didn’t seem like he wanted to address this on the investment side,” said Tyrone Buckley, policy director for Housing California, which is sponsoring the tax credit expansion. “We want to take advantage of a new energy in the horseshoe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional investments in low-income and supportive housing are also on the way with the passage of Propositions 1 and 2 in November, which will launch billions of dollars in construction bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even before those developments get underway, Skinner said she wants to make it easier to build low-income housing. One idea she has is to suspend minimum parking requirements, which can often add costs and delays to a housing proposal. Another proposal from housing groups includes pushing to ease local energy-efficiency rules, like solar panel mandates, for low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because supportive and low-income housing construction can take years, some lawmakers are also focusing on prevention: making sure more Californians do not slip into homelessness to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the very important things for us to do is keep people from being displaced,” Skinner said. “The main reason individuals become homeless is they couldn’t pay rent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11289268\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/skht-STREET-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"One of the permanent supportive housing complexes in downtown Los Angeles, which rely in part on rental subsides for formerly homeless tenants.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11289268\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/skht-STREET-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/skht-STREET-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/skht-STREET-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/skht-STREET.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/skht-STREET-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/skht-STREET-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/skht-STREET-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/skht-STREET-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/skht-STREET-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the permanent supportive housing complexes in downtown Los Angeles, which rely in part on rental subsidies for formerly homeless tenants. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than half of California renters are \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californians-parts-state-pay-can-afford-housing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“rent-burdened,”\u003c/a> meaning they spend more than a third of their income on housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 18, introduced by Skinner, would use state funds to pay for rental and legal assistance for tenants facing eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s still unclear, however, if lawmakers will attempt to take on what is perhaps the most controversial form of eviction protection: rent control. Proposition 10, a statewide ballot measure to expand rent limits, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702293/early-results-show-rent-control-measure-trailing-at-polls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resoundingly defeated\u003c/a> in November, and efforts to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act failed in the Legislature last session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner said she thinks some conversation around eviction protection laws will still happen next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe they are not necessary statewide,” she added. “Maybe they are more targeted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, who authored last year’s failed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101863343/a-bill-to-repeal-longstanding-rent-control-limits-gets-a-public-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Costa-Hawkins repeal\u003c/a>, has introduced “intent” legislation, which would “stabilize rental prices and increase the availability of affordable rental housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for Bloom said it’s still being determined whether \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB36\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 36\u003c/a> would include proposals to change rent control law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Californians currently living on the street, an ambitious proposal is taking shape to mandate a “right to shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener, author of Senate Bill 48, acknowledges that the proposal is in its early stages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But establishing that right could be a way to expand shelters to areas of the state that currently don’t have them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important that we not have local communities opting out of providing support to homeless people,” Wiener said. “The state, of course, has to be part of that solution because there are many communities that don’t have the resources to do what they need to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener and supportive housing advocates caution that any proposal around a right to shelter must avoid what has happened in New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, a court-ordered shelter obligation has forced the city to continually appropriate millions toward temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is that if you have a right to shelter it means you are spending all your money on shelters,” said Rapport, from the Corporation for Supportive Housing. “We don’t have enough permanent housing, so are you going to prioritize shelters over permanent housing? People are still technically homeless when they are living in a shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposals for homeless and low-income Californians will also have to compete for oxygen with Wiener’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11709817/its-sb-827-take-2-wiener-introduces-revamped-bill-to-require-more-housing-near-transit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">much-discussed bill\u003c/a> to require denser development, as well as ongoing \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discussions about reforms\u003c/a> to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), which some blame for impeding construction of housing.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Another proposal from housing groups includes pushing to ease local energy-efficiency rules, like solar panel mandates, for low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because supportive and low-income housing construction can take years, some lawmakers are also focusing on prevention: making sure more Californians do not slip into homelessness to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the very important things for us to do is keep people from being displaced,” Skinner said. “The main reason individuals become homeless is they couldn’t pay rent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11289268\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/skht-STREET-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"One of the permanent supportive housing complexes in downtown Los Angeles, which rely in part on rental subsides for formerly homeless tenants.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11289268\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/skht-STREET-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/skht-STREET-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/skht-STREET-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/skht-STREET.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/skht-STREET-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/skht-STREET-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/skht-STREET-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/skht-STREET-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/skht-STREET-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the permanent supportive housing complexes in downtown Los Angeles, which rely in part on rental subsidies for formerly homeless tenants. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than half of California renters are \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californians-parts-state-pay-can-afford-housing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“rent-burdened,”\u003c/a> meaning they spend more than a third of their income on housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 18, introduced by Skinner, would use state funds to pay for rental and legal assistance for tenants facing eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s still unclear, however, if lawmakers will attempt to take on what is perhaps the most controversial form of eviction protection: rent control. 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He says the legislation addresses affordability, sprawl and its impact on the state’s climate goals and the threat the housing crisis poses to the California economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wiener’s new \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB50\">SB 50\u003c/a> — like SB 827, it’s sponsored by the pro-development group California YIMBY — includes several new provisions that attempt to answer concerns that helped sink the earlier bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One new feature would mandate denser development in more affluent “job-rich” communities — even if they don’t have high-intensity commute transit service. That’s in response to complaints that SB 827 would have focused development on central-city communities and spared wealthier areas outside transit corridors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation would also allow cities that include “sensitive communities”– neighborhoods adjacent to transit that have a high risk of gentrification and displacement — extra time to develop alternative planning processes focused on development of affordable, multifamily housing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 50 also seeks to ensure that state-defined affordable housing is included in any developments approved under the bill. For instance, developers would need to comply with existing city ordinances that require the inclusion of affordable units in new developments. If cities don’t have such “inclusionary” housing ordinances on the books, builders would still be bound by state affordable development requirements to build units for a wide range of low-income tenants. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill specifies that rental properties that have housed tenants any time in the last seven years or where owners have evicted tenants under the state’s Ellis Act in the last 15 years will be ineligible to benefit under the proposal’s zoning waivers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Qualifying projects proposed for either the “job-rich” or “transit-rich” development zones would be exempt from local limits on housing density and requirements to build a certain number of parking spots per new unit. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those proposing developments in “transit-rich” neighborhoods would get added incentives if they include as yet unspecified percentages of affordable units in their projects. Such projects could get to a waiver from local height limits of less than 55 feet, for instance. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And through a grant of higher floor-area ratios — a measure of the usable floor area in a development in relation to the size of the lot its built on — the bill would allow developers to build more housing on a given parcel. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One central conflict that played a major part in opposition to SB 827 — cities’ jealous protection of their power to decide what gets built where — still looms as SB 50 begins its journey through the legislative process. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re at a point in California where we have to do things differently,” Wiener said in an interview Monday. “The way we’ve approached housing for many years, where we allow cities to do whatever they want with housing and adopt whatever zoning they want, no matter how restrictive or exclusionary — that time period has come to an end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who was elected to the state Senate after serving on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, said he believes in local control and that it “overwhelmingly produces better results — but not always.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to housing, I think the proof is in the pudding,” he said. “We have a terrible housing problem, and we have to set better and stronger state standards so that local communities are allowing enough housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he conceded that local government organizations like the League of California Cities will likely oppose SB 50, he pointed to early support expressed by several big city mayors, including London Breed of San Francisco, Libby Schaaf of Oakland and Darryl Steinberg of Sacramento. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A more tempered view came from Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who opposed SB 827. 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