Happily, some legislators understand the crisis. While SB-827 and SB-50 were drawing fire from the NIMBYs, other pro-housing bills passed into law, including SB-167 (sue more suburbs for denying housing permits), SB-828 (double the expected housing growth that cities are required to zone) and SB-330 (limit the number of hearings and the timeline for permits and prohibit downzoning for the next few years).

We need to elect and re-elect more pro-housing candidates, e.g., Scott Wiener from San Francisco, Shelly Masur from Redwood City, Dave Cortese from San Jose, Nancy Skinner from Berkeley, Marisol Rubio from San Ramon, Maria Cadenas from Santa Cruz.