Proudly engaged in a legal battle with the Trump administration over its phony border emergency, California has a real crisis that it has rarely treated as such. It’s the housing shortage, which has given the state the nation’s highest poverty rate and nearly a quarter of its homeless population.
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Citing the increasing cost of housing across California, a Bay Area lawmaker wants to sweep away a host of local restrictions on development in an effort to spur new homebuilding.
Nancy Skinner, a Berkeley resident and member of the California State Senate, has taken on the police union and fought for prison sentencing reform. She fought to require companies like Amazon to pay sales taxes in California, something internet retailers previously avoided.