25 Solutions From A Builder’s Perspective To Fix The California Housing Crisis: Difference between revisions

"[http://urbanize.la/post/25-solutions-builder’s-perspective-fix-california-housing-crisis 25 Solutions From A Builder’s Perspective To Fix The California Housing Crisis]" is an January 10, 2018 article by @housingforLA, pseudonym of a Los Angeles-based homebuilder. Published in ''Urbanize.la. ''

 

== Allow 100% Residential Development On Commercially Zoned Properties ==

 

== Stop Killing Housing By Delaying Approvals – Honor Mayor Ed Lee’s Executive Directive  ==

 

== Create New Zones For Missing Middle Housing ==

 

== We Need Uniform Statewide Zoning Rules for Properties Within ½ Mile Of a Rail Stop ==

 

== We Must Woo The Publicly Traded Homebuilders Back To California ==

 

== Legally Enforce That All Jurisdictions Take Senate Bill 35 Seriously ==

 

== Give Our Local Communities Appropriate New Housing Goals And Mandate They Meet Them ==

 

== Measure Progress By Certificates of Occupancy Minus Units Demolished ==

 

== Allow Housing Construction To Begin Immediately After Planning Approvals ==

 

== Be Very Careful Adding New Fees To Developments That Create New Housing ==

 

== Audit Planning Documents Regularly To See If They Are Creating Housing – Be Careful Not To Over Zone ==

 

== Incentivize and Remove Planning Approvals For As Much Affordable Housing As Possible ==

 

== Reform, don’t repeal The Costa Hawkins Act and The Ellis Act ==

 

There is room to reform Costa-Hawkins. Maybe rent control doesn’t start for 15, 20 or 25 years. Maybe older single-family homes should be rent controlled. Maybe annual rent increases at first can be more than the rate of inflation, but not unlimited. I would like to see an academic, not an activist, propose some solutions. 

 

 

== Publicly Funding Construction Of Below Market Rate Housing Is Important, But Should Not Be Our Primary Focus ==

 

== Make The Los Angeles Small Lot Subdivision Ordinance Statewide Law ==

 

== CalPERS Needs To Start Investing In California Homebuilding Again ==

 

== We Need To Look At Dodd-Frank Reform ==

 

== Fannie Mae Needs To Finance Construction Loans For Homebuilding ==

 

== Digitize and Open Source Zoning Information For All Property In California ==

 

== The Building Trades Need To Educate Builders on Prevailing Wage Requirements ==

 

== Give Our 120 California Legislators a Pay Raise ==

 

== Care About State Elections ==

 

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