SATT Note:  In the Senate’s Housing and Transportation Committee’s vote, the bill lost four votes to six. The only two yes votes from Democrats were from the bill’s authors. But for State Senator Scott Wiener, he stated the battle to increase California’s housing supply will continue.

See Town Hall on Housing Crisis, produced by Assembly Access (Video)

The Planning and Zoning Law requires, when an applicant proposes a housing development within the jurisdiction of a local government, that the city, county, or city and county provide the developer with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions for the production of lower income housing units or for the donation of land within the development if the developer, among other things, agrees to construct a specified percentage of units for very low, low-, or moderate-income households or qualifying residents.