The Housing Chair who got rolled.

Appointed Senate Housing Chair. PHIMBY / social-housing faction, not YIMBY supply. [CalMatters]

SB 79 (Wiener): upzone around transit. Wahab called it a “sweetheart deal” and a “giveaway,” said skipping strict affordable set-asides “perpetuates socioeconomic segregation, which is de facto racial segregation.” [CalMatters][Reason]

She had consultants write a report that recommended “no” instead of amendments. Her own Democrats overrode the chair and sent the bill out. She later voted for a negotiated final version and talked like she had improved it. [CalMatters][Reason]

Signature bill SB 555: study path to 1.4 million “social housing” units — public or nonprofit, permanently off the market, rents capped at 30% of income. A study is not a unit. [BillTrack50][Eden Housing]

SB 466: attempted rolling-clock hole in Costa-Hawkins. Died. [CAA]

SB 522: if a rent-controlled building burns, the rebuild stays under the old cap. Industry and housing economists said it freezes disaster reconstruction. [KQED][APT News]