Posted by: Zelda Bronstein – January 14, 2025 – 10:12 AM PST
https://marinpost.org/blog/2025/1/14/malibu-fires-and-the-mandate-for-endless-growth
“California will force Malibu and other towns to add housing. Here’s why that’s not nearly enough.”
So reads the headline on an op-ed published by the Los Angeles Times on May 5, 2024. The authors are Paavo Monkkonen, a professor of urban planning and public policy at UCLA, and Aaron Barrall, a housing data analyst at the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. Monkkonen is one of the most vocal advocates of the Yimby build-baby-build agenda.
The op-ed touted the state’s recent “unprecedented action to spur housing production in recent years”:
“Since 2017 the Legislature has passed nearly a hundred new laws to facilitate construction, including requiring cities to update local housing plans with more ambitious production targets. The executive branch has pursued a carrot-and-stick strategy to reward cities committed to addressing the housing crisis and penalize those that are not. And the attorney general scored recent high-profile victories in legal conflicts to advance plans for housing in the wealthy cities of Malibu, Huntington Beach and La Cañada Flintridge.”