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Gavin Newsom: “It's really about getting rid of those regulatory thickets.”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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Governor Newsom cuts red tape, helping build more affordable housing

Published | Video Starts at 42:29

Federal government, states have limited roles and responsibility when it comes to these things. Localism is determinative on all this housing and homelessness. It's a bottom up construct. So It's really about getting rid of those regulatory thickets. It's really about creating, creating flexibility and doing what you can to support localism. And I think what they did, what we've done, is going to feed very nicely into … (42:29–42:32)

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Asserts that removing regulatory barriers is important for addressing housing and homelessness.

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