The state employs what it considers necessary tools for California’s housing affordability crisis. The “Builder’s Remedy” allows developers to bypass local zoning when cities lack compliant housing elements—meant to ensure housing production, but feeling like a sledgehammer where a precision scalpel might work better.

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