Developers scrambling to rebuild homes in the coastal California community of Pacific Palisades won’t be forced by the state to build low-income apartments, officials announced July 30.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass each took executive action July 30 to suspend the state’s low-income housing mandates for the communities rebuilding from January’s Palisades and Eaton fires.
Newsom loosened the state’s grip with an executive order giving local governments the power to limit Senate Bill 9, a 2021 law that requires communities to develop dense, affordable projects and increase housing units on single-family lots. The regulation allows up to four units for each single-family home parcel….