Main finding
California's SB 35 created a faster and more certain approval path for qualifying projects, with especially visible use by affordable-housing developers.
156 approved or pending projects proposed more than 18,000 homes from 2018–2021
Streamlining Multifamily Housing Production in California
Manji & Finnigan
Most important limitation
Proposed units are not completed homes, users of the program are selected, and the report does not estimate a statewide causal effect.
From the publication
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Figure 2 · Proposed SB 35 projects by year and approval status
Most reported SB 35 applications had received entitlements by the report's cutoff.
How this study is used
Claims this evidence supports
Reference
Manji & Finnigan (2023). “Streamlining Multifamily Housing Production in California.”