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Administrative/Regulatory

Jan. 2, 2025

SB 1037: The housing hammer that could hit cities with steep penalties

MaryBeth Heydt

Senior Counsel Husch Blackwell LLP

MaryBeth Heydt is Senior Counsel with the Los Angeles office of national law firm Husch Blackwell. She holds a Master of Planning degree and has more than 25 years of experience handling commercial real estate transactional matters.

In September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 1037, which contains major new enforcement powers for the state's attorney general in connection with the state's housing laws. The slow and cumbersome litigation process associated with the enforcement of housing laws against the state's municipalities has been replaced in part via SB 1037. No longer must the AG wait for a judicial determination that a municipality is noncompliant with state law to impose civil moneta...

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