California considers converting abandoned malls to residential uses

As the far-reaching impacts of the COVID-19 crisis continue to reverberate nationwide, California lawmakers are attempting to reorient the state's housing policies in an effort to continue making progress in addressing the housing crisis gripping the region. Previously on Archinect: "California's stealthy approach to abolishing single-family zoning pays off." Image courtesy of Flickr user Kent Kanouse.Lawmakers have introduced a slew of bills in recent weeks aimed at furthering housing production goals, Cal Matters reports. Until now, the state has focused on a two-pronged approach of reducing zoning and regulatory hurdles for new housing developments while also infusing nonprofit housing developers and state agencies with vigorous financing to build new units. With the increasingly dire financial situation being left in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, however, plans have had to change in order to keep up and state authorities will not likely lean on private businesses to produce a...