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CONTINUED. • Guest Name: Julia Cartwright • Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow in Law and Economics at the American Institute for Economic Research • Summary: The conversation examines the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) as a major impediment

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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CONTINUED. • Guest Name: Julia Cartwright
• Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow in Law and Economics at the American Institute for Economic Research
• Summary: The conversation examines the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) as a major impediment to housing development, particularly for rebuilding after wildfires. Julia Cartwright details how CEQA, along with restrictive building and zoning codes, creates costly delays, making California the most expensive state for construction. This bureaucracy disproportionately impacts affordable housing and is exacerbated by entities like the California Coastal Commission.
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I'm John Batchel, visiting with Julia Cartwright, a senior research fellow in law and

0:28.2

economics at the American Institute for Economic Research, writing at Civitas Outlook for

0:33.1

Civitas Institute. We've defined the problem. Okay, big deal. Complain, complain. What is to be done?

0:39.2

There are guidelines. There are possibilities. Julia, you mentioned earlier. Governor Gavin Newsom

0:45.0

is recognizing this problem and moving on it. What is AB 130, AB 131? I'm unfamiliar with the

0:54.0

nomenclature.

0:55.7

Yes.

0:56.3

So it's a House and a Senate bill that Governor Gavin Newsom passed a few months ago.

1:01.3

And what it does is it unburdens many of these developers from the very costly environmental review.

1:07.9

So it makes it less costly and less time consuming for developers,

1:13.2

regardless of what particular building they're developing.

1:17.5

They're developing. Now we're going to divide the, we're going to branch. We've got affordable

1:23.4

housing, which means something less than a million dollars, and we've got luxury housing,

1:28.5

you lay out an argument that makes it very clear there's just no profit worth chasing

1:34.7

for affordable housing. How does that work? Yeah, great question, John. So if you have two

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