• 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
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 5 September 2025
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• 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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| 0:30.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:36.4 | The California fires in Los Angeles, the Pacific Palisades and other neighborhoods swept by wildfire. What is to be |
| 0:39.7 | done? I welcome Julia Cartwright, a senior research fellow in law and economics at the American |
| 0:46.2 | Institute for Economic Research, writing for Civitas Outlook at the Civitas Institute, University of |
| 0:52.5 | Texas at Austin, most recently, about how they got |
| 0:55.8 | into this fix that as a complete outsider observing and reporting on the wildfires of California, |
| 1:03.2 | I puzzled why the news is the permitting process, why the news is nothing is happening, why the |
| 1:10.1 | news is a neighborhood such as the Pacific |
| 1:12.3 | Palisades right on the Pacific Ocean. Luxury homes. I've seen a video of what it looked |
| 1:17.7 | like before the fire. It's a gorgeous place. Why it sits there as a challenge to all of us |
| 1:26.1 | who like things cleaned up. |
| 1:28.5 | Julia, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:30.2 | Thank you. |
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