The fight to build faster in California

In this episode, I'm joined by two of California's leading
housing champions, Assemblymember Buffy Wicks and Senator Scott
Wiener, to discuss their bills to reform the state's notorious
environmental review law, CEQA. We explore how a well-intentioned
1970s environmental protection has become a tool for NIMBYs,
unions, and even oil companies to delay or kill housing projects
— and why the politics have finally shifted enough to make
progress possible.


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