The Terner Center for Housing Innovation published their 2025 California Housing Supply and Land Use Legislative Round-Up. The article provides an overview of key California bills focused on land use reforms and high-impact housing supply passed by the legislature and signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom. Many of the bills focused on refinements and expansions of laws that have been passed in the last 10 years.
The legislature passed additional bills addressing other aspects of housing—finance, for example—but they are not covered in this commentary. This commentary also covers only bills that were passed by the legislature, not bills that are still pending and might move forward next year.
