SB 50 has died, and with it a chance for California to stop shoving homes into the hinterlands, forcing two-hour, freeway-clogging, greenhouse gas-emitting drives to work.
It’s fitting that major legislation to fight urban sprawl by forcing denser housing was killed by lawmakers from Los Angeles County, the nation’s sprawl capital.
But the status quo is unsustainable. We should be building at least 250,000 housing units a year and we’re producing fewer than 100,000. When demand exceeds supply, prices soar. Urban housing is increasingly unaffordable for middle-class families, let alone the working poor. One refreshing thing: This fight had nothing to do with partisan politics. It was all about geography and the protection of single-family living from the encroachment of higher-density complexes. Roughly 75% of L.A. city is zoned for single-family homes.
But it was counties and cities that long ago allowed untenable sprawl, ripping out fruit orchards and planting housing tracts, creating long commutes. Instead of building upward, they built sideways.
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