California housing: New laws aim to make it easier to build

California will try to boost housing production by freezing local regulations and lowering the barriers to build backyard cottages and other secondary units on properties.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of legislation Wednesday that aims to jump-start construction rates and ease the state’s housing shortage.

“At the end of the day, the state vision of affordability will be realized at the local level,” Newsom said in a signing ceremony at a private home in Los Angeles — “local housing project by local housing project, in every single part of the state.”

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