Gov. Gavin Newsom signs new bills aimed to fix California's housing crisis

Governor Gavin Newsom signed authorities connected Monday aimed astatine improving the state's lodging crisis.

The laws volition beryllium enacted arsenic portion of the state's budget, signed conscionable hours earlier the fiscal year, which began connected July 1.

The lodging and infrastructure measures are designed to trim improvement barriers portion creating caller tools to velocity up accumulation and trim costs.

Republicans criticized the timing of the legislation, including last-minute changes and deficiency of transparency.

The laws, however, could jeopardize the state's California Environmental Quality Act, which requires governments to survey the biology impacts of caller lodging and infrastructure projects they approve.