Beverly Hills lacks an adequate plan to do its part in addressing California’s affordable housing crisis. That was the opinion of a Nov. 28 letter by the state’s Department for Housing and Community Development, or HCD, which for the second time rejected the city of Beverly Hills’ state-mandated housing element.
Once a sleepy document broadly chronicling a city’s next eight years of housing policy, “A paper-pushing exercise,” said UC Davis Land Use Law Professor Chris Elmendorf, the housing element has become vitally important to Beverly Hills’ near-term future.
