The price of setting up low-income housing in California is the very best within the nation, with some condominium buildings totaling greater than $1 million per unit to construct.
One of many causes? It’s costly to put aside land for parking tons and construct underground garages. On this episode of “Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Disaster Podcast,” we discuss a forthcoming state regulation, Meeting Invoice 2097, that eliminates minimal parking necessities for brand new housing close to mass transit. The hope, supporters of the regulation say, is that the coverage will spur extra growth at decrease price whereas additionally serving to California meet its local weather change objectives.
Our visitor is Donald Shoup, an city planning professor at UCLA and writer of the e-book, “The Excessive Price of Free Parking.” Shoup is taken into account the preeminent scholar on parking in the USA and his work laid the inspiration for the brand new regulation.
“Gimme Shelter,” a biweekly podcast that appears at why it’s so costly to dwell in California and what the state can do about it, options Liam Dillon, who covers housing affordability points for the Los Angeles Occasions, and Manuela Tobías, housing reporter for CalMatters.
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