Another stereotypical California affordable housing ordeal: developer has spent 10 years battling NIMBYs to build a 71-unit low-density complex in Moss Beach, a small town near Half Moon Bay. State is paying tens of millions in subsidies. This is a region with tons of empty land.
The developer of a 240 unit Berkeley apartment building must pay $8.4 million in impact fees - $35k per unit (mostly studios & 1-beds). Plus, mandates from the widely panned 2023 HARD HATS ordnance cost an extra $5 million. And people wonder why we have a housing crisis …
