California residents are living through the fallout of these burdensome zoning restrictions and bad policy decisions. The solution: government needs to get out of the way.
A Measure HHH construction project on the five-story, 55-unit affordable housing complex at 10243 N. Topanga Canyon Boulevard on June 22, 2023. T about one of California’s longest-running residential building projects —17 years and counting to complete 49 “affordable” housing units that cost $32.4 million to build, not to mention the land the county gave to the developer.
California laws and policies, in conjunction with self-interested politicians and neighbors, have failed the very people that affordable housing projects purport to help — the increasing number of Californians in desperate need of a home. The irony of government impeding its own project with its own bureaucracy is heightened by the realities of government-subsidized housing — higher costs, larger burdens, and longer delays.
In California, as little as 50 years ago, homelessness was rare and housing options were greater. Less-restrictive zoning made cost-effective options like renting private rooms in buildings with shared amenities more common. But, as the Pew study notes, “in the decades since, zoning or building code restrictions in most cities prevented more of these units from being developed, and city governments encouraged their conversion into other uses.
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