LAGUNA HILLS, Calif.—A nonprofit housing group sponsored by the California Association of Realtors filed lawsuits against the City of Laguna Hills and five other Southern California cities that failed to meet state housing planning requirements.
Californians for Homeownership, a nonprofit organization calling for public interest groups to “fight local anti-housing policies,” according to its website. The nonprofit filed the lawsuits, as an effort to “address California’s housing crisis,” on April 19 in Los Angeles County and Orange County superior courts.
“The goal of these lawsuits is to fundamentally change the way that California’s cities and counties approach their housing planning obligations,” Otto Catrina, president of the California Association of Realtors, said in a statement. “For far too long, cities have treated compliance with these laws as optional, and we hope to put an end to that approach.”
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