More states are discovering that bypassing local zoning officials to facilitate the building of new affordable and middle-income housing is a sure-fire way to generate pushback from the NIMBY crowd.
California's builder's remedy, the break-glass-in-case-of-emergency loophole the state housing agency is enforcing to force cities to meet its new housing mandates has generated a series of legal challenges that are making their way through the courts in the Golden State.
In the Empire State, Gov. Kathy Hochul's ambitious plan to build 800,000 new housing units by forcing municipalities to increase housing density died in the state legislature last year without a vote due to fierce opposition from suburban districts.
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