Silvestri: The Big Con that led to housing mandates for Marin

 

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local governments for state mandates. “Unfunded mandates,” which are orders that induce “responsibility, action, procedure or anything else that is imposed by constitutional, administrative, executive, or judicial action” for state and local governments and/or the private sector, are not allowed, or at the very least are not enforceable without compensation.
If this is true, how did we end up in a situation where the State of California is sucking more and more of our tax dollars up to Sacramento while making more and more demands on local county and city governments about educational requirements, health and safety requirements, and particularly on local planning and things like affordable housing Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) quotas without providing any funding to accomplish them?

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