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Just remove zoning laws in cities. Houston does not have zoning and housing is affordable since builders do not have to pay off city hall! A good model for California which will never be implemented because limousine libruls do not want unwashed masses in their neighborhoods.
As part of his proposal, Bloomberg is promising to ramp up pressure on cities and municipalities to loosen zoning laws, increase funding for affordable housing and housing assistance, and help cities get homeless people off the streets and into homes, not shelters.
Housing policy experts widely agree that restrictive zoning laws are a big reason why housing supply has not kept up with demand nationally.
That’s particularly true in California.
“Most of California’s most populous cities and most affluent suburbs are just not building up housing,” Brookings Institute Fellow Jenny Schuetz told McClatchy earlier this year. “They’ve been under-building housing for about 30 years now.”
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