YIMBYs and environmentalists have been at odds on housing. Now they’re teaming up to fight sprawl
Much of the housing built in the state since the 1970s has been in sprawling subdivisions on the far outskirts of metro areas. While expedient, this development pattern has put thousands more Californians in the pathway of deadly wildfires and floods.
That problem at the intersection of two existential crises has long bedeviled legislators: How can the state confront its worsening housing shortage while also discouraging construction in wildland areas that are being pummeled by disasters made increasingly common and severe by a changing climate?