Senate Bill 79 will legalize more housing near transit across California

Every day, millions of Angelenos participate in a grueling ritual: Medical workers in the San Gabriel Valley rise at 4 a.m. for gridlocked commutes to Santa Monica hospitals. Restaurant employees in East LA leave before their children wake to make breakfast for studio executives in Valley Village.

These hard-working Angelenos drive past Metro stations – funded by the taxpayers of Los Angeles County – in neighborhoods where local residents have made it all but illegal to build more homes.