California's Manmade Housing Crisis: A Legendary Land Use Attorney on a Broken System

West Coast Land Use and Environmental Group Leader Jennifer Hernandez was featured on an episode of the State of Gold podcast analyzing California's housing crisis. The lack of affordable housing options in the state has hurt the working class and low-income families, and Ms. Hernandez dissects the origins of this problem, from bureaucratic bloat to a seemingly endless line of litigation resulting from policies and procedures originally intended to protect Californians. She also spends time talking about the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), calling it a "hydra" that has become a tool to block housing development, as well as discusses not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) movements and state climate policies that have evolved into another method for stimying projects. The episode concludes with her take on solutions to the affordability crisis.

Duration: 38:30