Mayor Sam Liccardo on Reopening Schools, Housing and Red Tape, and Tech Exodus

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🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo spoke earlier this week at a state senate hearing in support of reforming the California Environmental Quality Act. He says changing these regulations will lead to more affordable housing, transit and jobs. We'll talk with Liccardo about CEQA reforms, San Jose's housing goals, the urgency of reopening schools, and removing regulatory barriers in order to create jobs. And we want to hear from you: which specific need of San Jose's should the Mayor prioritize? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.0	This is Forum. I'm Rachel Myro.
0:39.3	Lots of high-end jobs available, but little else.
0:43.2	Stratospheric housing costs, homelessness, many schools, digital only for the duration of the pandemic.
0:50.2	What is not to love about life in California today?
0:54.0	Silicon Valley in particular is flying high,
0:57.0	but major regional studies warn the region's housing crisis here in the Bay Area is making it less
1:03.0	attractive to tech workers, let alone the rest of us. It is not an easy time to be the mayor of one of the
1:10.0	state's biggest cities.
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