Despite our city’s history of supporting affordable housing – while also having some of the highest rents in the country today – Palo Alto’s city council voted on June 1 to use a legally dubious procedure to allow as little housing as possible under the law. Their strategy cuts the housing that SB 79 would allow in half, using a provision meant to reward cities that have already planned for transit-oriented housing. Using this loophole indiscrim…
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