Steve Hilton
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3,771 appearances
18 recordings
14 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 Jun
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Gavin Newsom pitched these two pieces of legislation last year, AB 130, AB 131, as we're now solving the housing crisis.
We're going to have abundance with housing.
Fantastic.
We're going to build more housing.
And the centerpiece of it was exemptions from that environmental law I mentioned, CEQA, for housing.
Except you only get the exemptions if you use union labor.
So already you're adding back in a whole bunch of cost from that.
And the second thing is that because they've got part of the climate story is that they don't want sprawl, as they call it, because if you have sprawl and people drive more, that's bad for climate.
So they've got this mechanism, this regulatory mechanism called VMT.
Vehicle miles traveled.
It's a calculation that's put into permitting for projects.
If you want to build, this is in the new legislation that Newsom touted as the solution to the housing crisis.
They put in a VMT charge that's an actual cost that's paid.
It's basically a tax.
If you want to build a new single-family home,
the cost of the VMT that they will put in, the developer pays it, obviously then goes to the price, the purchase price, $325,000 over 20 years, just for this extra.
So like the climate stuff is just embedded in every, obviously in obvious ways like gas prices, and of course gas prices affect, and diesel affects business, you know, delivery costs, all of that.
That's why groceries are the highest in the country.
Electric bills, more than double the national average.
With gas prices, we're the highest in the country, higher than Hawaii in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, even though we have abundant oil reserves.
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