The SF Chronicle published an editorial Saturday criticizing California Democrats for repeatedly putting their tired ideology over what actually works in a number of areas.
For instance, if you listen to Gov. Newsom, the state needs to build more homes. He recently admitted the state isn’t anywhere close to meeting it’s stated goals for home construction and then offered a bunch of excuses why that was the case. But when two bills were recently put forward to allow for more multi-family homes, the bills were killed by one powerful state democrat.
The bills’ primary assailant was state Sen. Aisha Wahab, D-Fremont, chair of the Senate Housing Committee, who has leaned on the tired refrain that efforts to streamline new housing production are “giveaways for developers,” partly because they reduce the ability of local governments to weigh in on…