These California Bills Could Improve
The Housing Crisis
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California's housing crisis is impacting just about every demographic from students to seniors. To address the challenges Californians are facing, the state legislature has been working on several bills to help ease regulatory burdens that have stalled many developments or provide new rules to increase housing production.
“It's starting to sink in that California has a devastating housing crisis,” Bay Area Council President and CEO Jim Wunderman said in a statement. “While this represents a good step forward in addressing a problem that is hurting millions of Californians and threatening our economy, we really need a big leap forward to remove the myriad regulatory and other barriers that are a huge obstacle to building the millions of new housing units we need. We're not done, yet.”
Check out some of the bills that may have a significant impact below:
SB 1227 (Student Housing)
SB 1227 would allow student housing projects to receive a 35% density bonus as long as all of the units were dedicated to students and 20% were dedicated to very-low-income students and students experiencing homelessness as a priority.
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Beyond The Bio: 16 Questions With Lendlease Americas General Manager Of Development Nicholas Iselin
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Lendlease Americas General Manager of Development Nicholas Iselin joined the company in 2014 as it continued to expand its U.S. development pipeline. The developer has provided construction management services for a variety of high-profile projects, including the Time Warner Center in New York City and Hines' 33 Tehama residential tower in San Francisco. The company is now pursuing its own developments in U.S. gateway cities. Lendlease today has a $15.7B urban regeneration development pipeline, including the projects Iselin oversees.
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