{"id":26,"date":"2026-09-28T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/kathysantifer-com\/2026\/09\/28\/california-law-could-add-700000-homes\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:00:00","slug":"california-law-could-add-700000-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathysantifer.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/28\/california-law-could-add-700000-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"California Law Could Add 700,000 Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/katherine-irene-santifer-769431\/california-has-passed-hundreds-of-housing-laws-why-arent-they-working-news-article-remotion-videos-d094\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>California\u2019s housing plan calls for &gt;300K new homes yearly, yet approvals have stayed far lower, underscoring why effective, buildable reforms remain essential statewide.<br \/>\nSeveral headline housing laws have delivered limited results, from a lot-split measure to a church-land measure with just 94 permitted units statewide.<br \/>\nA key obstacle has been labor rules and below-market unit mandates, which can make projects harder to finance; labor provisions add ~$100K per home.<br \/>\nCalifornia\u2019s strongest gains have come from simpler approaches: accessory dwelling unit permits now top 20K yearly, making up nearly a quarter of statewide approvals.<br \/>\nDensity bonuses remain even stronger: yearly approvals sit just under 50K units, and cover nearly half of new multifamily housing in California.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California\u2019s housing plan calls for &gt;300K new homes yearly, yet approvals have stayed far lower, underscoring why effective, buildable reforms remain essential statewide. Several headline housing laws have delivered limited results, from a lot-split measure to a church-land measure with just 94 permitted units statewide. A key obstacle has been labor rules and below-market unit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathysantifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathysantifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathysantifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathysantifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathysantifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathysantifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathysantifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathysantifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathysantifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}