The Steve Hilton Show

Steve chats with Jessica Millan Patterson, chairwoman of the California GOP to talk about the upcoming election season and how the Republican party is working to ensure election integrity.

Steve chats with Assemblyman Joe Patterson (AD05) to get some behind the scenes information on how the California Legislature works.

Steve chats with Sheriff Alex Villanueva about his run for the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors.

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Steve is joined by Susan Shelley (susanshelley.com) to talk about the end of the latest CA legislative session and the surprising vetoes from Governor Gavin Newsom.

Steve is joined by Jennifer Horn of the Morning Answer to discuss the tragic killing of a Sheriff in Palmdale.

Steve and Susan Shelley chat about what bills made it out of this year's California Legislature.

Rebecca is the founder of For Kids and Country, the author of Standing Up to Goliath: Battling State and National Teachers’ Unions for the Heart and Soul of our Kids and Country, and a 28-year public school teacher who was lead plaintiff in Friedrichs v. CTA.

Steve chats with Presidential candidate Larry Elder about why he was blindsided by being excluded from the first RNC debate and how he plans to be at the next one.

The California Homeownership Affordability Act will accomplish three objectives:
1. Restore CEQA: The biggest barrier to building the new homes we need is the abuse of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to file nuisance lawsuits on bogus environmental grounds. When it was passed, CEQA did not even cover housing, and yet California finds itself in a situation where just between 2019 and 2021, around one million new homes that had been approved for construction by state and local government were blocked by bogus CEQA lawsuits. 

This Initiative would eliminate CEQA abuse by ending the "private right of action" - only county DAs or the state Attorney General would be able to file CEQA lawsuits.
Why should anyone be able to sue to stop housing being built, if it has already been approved and complies with all existing environmental regulations?

2. Cap Impact Fees: One of the main drivers of astronomical housing costs is the explosion in so-called "Impact Fees" being charged on new housing construction. These are effectively a tax on house-building and create an incentive for only expensive homes to be built.

For example, the fees charged for building an apartment in San Francisco have been as high as $300,000 - even before the cost of land, labor, materials, etc.

This Initiative will cap fees at 3% of the combined construction and labor cost of a new home. The cap would not include fees for schools, or to connect to utilities. The 3% cap would comprise state agency compliance fees capped at 1% and local fees at 2%.

This would dramatically reduce the cost of new housing and incentivize the building of genuinely affordable homes through the market.

 3. Construction Worker Housing Fund: To address the shortage of construction workers, which also contributes to rising costs, our proposal includes a new fund, financed by a small portion of Impact Fees, to create a down payment assistance program to help construction workers buy their own home if they commit to staying in the industry in California.

Steve welcomes candidate for Los Angeles District Attorney, Nathan Hochman, to talk about his multi-tiered plan to fix Los Angeles' crime issues.