Gov. Gavin Newsom continues Jerry Brown’s position that reforming CEQA is “the Lord’s work,” but not doing it.
Former Gov. Jerry Brown, left, was unwilling to reform California’s environmental laws to speed up housing construction and his successor, Gavin Newsom, has done no better.When California Gov. Gavin Newsom made an unusual appearance on Fox News, it was inevitable that conservative commentator Sean Hannity would bore in on California’s chronic housing shortage and homelessness crisis.
That cause-and-effect relationship was confirmed in a recent in-depth study of homelessness by a UC San Francisco research team. Indirectly, therefore, Newsom told Californians that while he says it should be done, he’s not willing to take on the heavy lifting to lessen CEQA misuse on housing. His posture continues predecessor Jerry Brown’s position of declaring CEQA reform to be “the Lord’s work,” but being unwilling to do it.
They demonstrate through case studies that, while the latter attempts to streamline housing construction, the former is used to slow or even kill housing projects by local interests and labor unions. “The ostensible ‘super-ness’ of the two statutes creates a predicament for courts and other actors because CEQA and the HAA could not be more different in their basic institutional and normative principles,” the authors write.
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