Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand joins TPR to discuss his efforts to ensure local land use decisions remain at the local level, and describes his criticisms with SB 827.
Holland & Knight partner and land use expert Jennifer Hernandez explains how implementing SB 35 (authored by Sen. Scott Wiener in 2017) is leading to increased affordable housing at a project in Berkeley.
To unpack the impacts of SB 827 on housing affordability and transit goals, TPR turned to Denny Zane of Move LA and Cynthia Strathmann of Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE).
Professor Michael Storper of UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs outlines why the broad-brush of SB 827 will likely led to increased displacement and contradictory effects.
Co-director of LA-Más Helen Leung explains how Los Angeles is working to increase ADUs through its Highland Park pilot project, as well as improving financing instruments for ADU construction.
Bay Area State Senator Bob Wieckowski's SB 831 aims to eliminate impact fees for ADUs and create an amnesty program to bring the 200,000 unpermitted units in California into compliance.
Speaking at a recent town hall event in Los Angeles, Sen. Wiener (San Francisco) explained the rationale for SB 827 as he prepares to advance the bill in the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee in April.
