[dragonwriter]

> Cities are able to take this action because they know they have no intention of building anything ever again,

California cities don’t, since their choice now is between “approve enough new housing voluntarily” or “lose the ability to reject new housing entirely”.

Builder's remedy expansion under the Housing Crisis Act of 2019 has changed the landscape fundamentally.

[jeffbee]

Get back to me as soon as any "builder's remedy" project breaks ground.

[asveikau]

If the threat of using the builder's remedy successfully gets cities to change behavior, isn't that working correctly despite no "builder's remedy project breaking ground"?

I'd imagine also that these things take years. First for the law to take effect, since that can't be immediate, and then for any enforcement of it to go through the courts.