Mandate affordable housing in all new development. Allow single-family homeowners to add a rental unit to their homes. It would add affordable living spaces in already existing neighborhoods. Form a regional planning agency with power to override suburban city fears of apartments and the poor working class. They range from statewide reform in how sales taxes are distributed to an overthrow of Proposition 218, which mandated a two-thirds vote to approve new taxes.
Local governments say both policies hurt their ability to have a good mix of businesses and housing.
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