California lawmakers have passed new housing legislation to increase the housing supply and address the state's housing crisis. The legislation allows single-family homeowners to split their lots and build two homes on each lot.
In recent years, California lawmakers have approved a flurry of legislation aimed at increasing the housing supply and addressing the state’s decades-in-the-making housing crisis . Many of the changes are modest — rather than creating massive apartment towers or sprawling new subdivisions, they are meant to add moderate density in existing neighborhoods.
It’s the type of “missing middle” housing that advocates say will help the Bay Area Senate Bill 9, passed in 2021, is one such change: it allows single-family homeowners around the state to split their lots in two, and build two homes on each lot
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