California officials are suing a local government for not approving an apartment complex for people experiencing homelessness.
and accused its leaders of ignoring state housing laws requiring them to build 13,000 new homes over the next eight years.
Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen said the city did not reject the project for people currently without homes, it simply ruled it was not eligible to be fast-tracked under a 2017 California housing law. Karen Hallock, an attorney for the project's developers, disputes that, saying the city flatly denied the project.
The Elk Grove Planning Commission denied Excelerate's project last year because they said having residences on the first floor violated the city's standard for that part of town. Attorney General Bonta argues those standards are not objective, noting the city approved a separate project for the same neighborhood that included market-rate housing on the first floor.
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