Todays NYT: "As California’s legislative session drew to a close last month, lawmakers approved two major bills aimed at transforming malls, office buildings and parking lots into housing. Affordable housing advocates cheered the measures, which could result in millions more homes in the Golden State.
The last six years have played out this way in Sacramento, with each session ending with a flurry of new laws devised to increase housing. California’s housing crisis is dire — the state has some of the nation’s highest rents and more than 100,000 people living on the streets — and state leaders are increasingly trying to tackle the problem through legislation.
But new housing laws don’t always work exactly as lawmakers would hope.
Last year, after the Legislature passed a new law allowing duplexes across the state, dozens of cities adopted ordinances that discouraged such units by tacking on numerous standards. (Among the creative requirements: a covered porch, the signature of an archaeologist, the highest level of energy efficiency and an automatic garage door.)"
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