By David M. Greenwald
Executive Editor
We have been warning all week – now the Los Angeles Times has come out with an editorial on it as well – “NIMBY cities, watch out. California is cracking down on jurisdictions that make it too hard to build much-needed housing, and the Newsom administration’s latest target is San Francisco — the liberal city that may be the NIMBYist of them all.”
The Times cites last week’s decision by HCD which announced for the first time it is launching a “housing policy and practice review” which aims to “analyze why it’s so hard to build homes in San Francisco.”
San Francisco is an interestingly high profile target. A large, high profile city that has become a poster child for the high cost of housing,…