California Says: Build More Homes

L.A. Weekly's John Sutter : Homeowners associations were NIMBY avant la lettre.

He says they often exercised veto power over any project that they thought might slow rise of their property values.

Sutter says California Environmental Quality Act gave them the right to challenge construction permits on a host of environmental grounds.

New law puts limits on CEQA 's applicability to most urban areas.

Los Angeles , San Jose , Long Beach , and San Diego have the highest ratio of median home price to median income.

California settled on its imperfect solution yesterday , but that's only half of what’s required to make California housing affordable again.

The other half constitutes the wage hikes that the state and its major cities have been fostering by raising the minimum wage.