Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed major housing reform legislation that significantly rolls back California's environmental review requirements for urban apartment developments. This development marks a pivotal change in addressing housing shortages and reflects the Carpenters' growing influence in Sacramento. Their support offers Democratic lawmakers a way to tackle the housing crisis while managing traditional labor concerns expressed by the State Building and Construction Trades Council. Over the last decade, the Carpenters and the Trades have invested significant resources in legislative campaigns, indicating the importance of union backing in housing policy reforms.
The new law rolls back California's landmark environmental review law to exempt urban apartment developments, an idea once considered a legislative third rail.
The Carpenters' involvement has given some Democratic lawmakers the opportunity to address the housing crisis with the blessing of a construction union.
Over the past 10 years, the Trades' statewide and regional councils have donated more than $6.7 million to legislative candidates.
The Carpenters, with its northern and southern councils, spend a formidable amount themselves: nearly $6 million on legislative races in the past decade.
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