A new poll from the Public Policy Institute of California says more than 60% of adult Californians support ending single-family-only zoning near mass transit.
Single-family homes in the Granada Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. Such tracts have drawn the eye of housing advocates seeking to increase density.
A strong majority of Californians want the state to force local governments to allow apartments in single-family-home neighborhoods near transit and jobs, according to a new statewide poll.released Wednesday found that 62% of adults surveyed were in favor of requiring cities and counties to permit apartment construction in communities that now comprise only single-family homes if they’re near rail stations or clusters of jobs.
Mark Baldassare, the institute’s president and pollster, said he was surprised that residents were willing to support such radical changes to the state’s historical development patterns. Between half and three-quarters of developable land in much of the state is zoned for single-family housing only,“This really demonstrates that housing is truly a crisis today,” Baldassare said.
Allowing apartments in single-family neighborhoods attracted support in the survey from all regions of the state and among diverse interest groups, although support broke down along partisan lines. Every region of the state reported at least 60% approval. Nearly three-quarters of Democrats backed the idea — compared with 36% of Republicans. More than half of those 55 and older were in favor, as were 70% of those 18 to 34.
Perhaps most surprising, 51% of homeowners were in support. SB 50 failed in a legislative committee last month after
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