California’s efforts to house more people have fallen short
A fiasco at UC Berkeley is merely the latest evidence of deep troubles
CALIFORNIA’S NIMBY crowd scored a victory this month when the state’s Supreme Court declined to lift an enrolment freeze for the University of California, Berkeley. A local group, Save Berkeley’s Neighbourhoods, sued the university in 2019 to force it to redo an environmental-impact report which showed that admitting more students would have little effect. Thousands of students who would have been accepted to one of America’s finest public universities will now be turned away. The decision is a potent example of the cunning use of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) by anti-growth activists to limit development.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “No home runs”
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