How do you create slums in California? You end single family zoning, you build high risers of “affordable” housing, you defund and smear law enforcement—and at the end of the day you look like Chicago on a weekend.
“Now a new era of blockbusting may be upon us, thanks to the landmark housing density laws passed last year, known as SB 9 and SB 10. SB 9 does away with almost all single family, or R-1, zoning by allowing all but a few residential lots to be split down the middle, with two new apartments or condominiums and an “additional dwelling unit” (grandma-style one-room structure) on each half.
So SB 9 essentially allows six housing units on virtually all lots where there now is only one, everywhere in California. Cities and counties cannot stop this. SB 10, aiming to radically densify housing near light rail transit stops or major bus routes, allows high-rise development on any lot within half a mile of those transportation features.
Neither bill requires developers to provide new parking, new water supplies, new school buildings, new parks, traffic mitigation or any other community amenity in exchange for the right to build.
In New York cars are double parked on the streets. In Chicago and New York, you know you will be a crime victim—and low cost housing is living in slum conditions. Thanks to the Democrats, those left in California will be the very rich and the very poor—forced to live in crime infected slums.
