California is invoking its Surplus Land Act to order a San Diego suburb to put 300 acres it set aside for a university campus and innovation district on the market for sale or lease to affordable housing developers.
The Surplus Land Act, originally enacted in 1968, mandates the prioritization of affordable housing development whenever local government land is designated as "no longer necessary for public use."
In 2019, the state legislature expanded the scope of the Act, widening the definition of what constitutes surplus land to include former redevelopment properties, and to apply it to economic development agencies.
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