In the past decade, there has been an average of 80,000 homes a year built in California — 100,000 units below what's needed to keep pace with population growth through 2025, according to a recent report by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD).
"In the Bay Area, we've added more than 600,000 new jobs since 2010 but created only about 60,000 new housing units," Jim Wunderman, president and CEO of the Bay Area Council, a public-policy advocacy group, wrote in an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Census Bureau's most recent "American Community Survey" revealed that roughly half of total US renters in 2015 — about 20.4 million — were spending more than the recommended 30% of their income on housing costs.
Then, relief. California Sen. Bob Wieckowski wrote a bill that put the state in charge of ADUs. It passed in September 2016, revoking all ADU city-level ordinances — from parking restrictions to fire sprinkler requirements to cumbersome costs — and established a new, comparatively lenient, baseline criteria for approval.
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