Chase Hunter is the Alameda County reporter for the Bay Area News Group. Hunter grew up in the West Valley of Phoenix and moved to Sonoma County in 2021 where he reported for the Sonoma Index-Tribune and the Santa Rosa Press Democrat on wildfires, crime, city government, agriculture, and the environment.
Assembly District 14 Rep. Buffy Wicks defeated her challenger Margot Smith in a race to define what it means to be a progressive in California housing policy.She campaigned to build on the housing policy she’s already passed in the California legislature, promising to address the high cost of housing by cutting red tape and regulations for housing developers.
Wicks won a second term serving Assembly District 14, which encompasses much of the East Bay from Hercules to Piedmont, with numerous metro areas caught in the state’s ongoing housing crisis. Wicks pointed to her bills that would streamline housing development through objective standards and empower developers with what is known as the “builder’s remedy,” a mechanism that makes it easier for them to build by restricting regulations.
“Here in the East Bay, Wicks’ ‘affordable’ housing is for those making less than $100,000 a year,” Smith told Bay Area News Group last month. “We need publicly funded housing for workers, families, teachers, veterans, elders who make much less.”
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