California continues to experience a chronic housing shortage, the root cause of an ever-increasing unhoused population. A glimmer of hope in tackling the issue is presented by the current deliberation over bill SB79, which would require California cities to allow the construction of dense, multi-family housing within short walking distances of major public transit infrastructure. Decades of long-term policy failure has led to an absence of infrastructural evolution needed in order to properly sustain California’s continued population growth. “The only real way to reduce housing inequity in California is to move away from our illusory notion of ‘local control’ over land use,” Nicholas Steinman CMC’28 writes. Steinman argues that constituent advocacy for the passage of SB79 is essential in order to finally address the housing crisis in California.
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OPINION: Save lives by keeping AB 988 alive
Assembly Bill 988 will save lives by providing funding for California’s mental health crisis response system, but we need to advocate for it now so it will pass, argues Porter Reyes PO ’25.