(Here’s the sign-up, if you don’t already get California Today by email.) My colleague Conor Dougherty followed the protracted debate over one of the most closely watched and polarizing fixes for California’s housing crisis, which played out in Sacramento this week. Here’s his dispatch:Senate Bill 50 is dead. That question hovered over the California State Legislature the past two days while Senator Scott Wiener’s bill to allow mid-rise apartments and condominiums near transit stops made its way to a final floor vote. The bill was voted down Wednesday — only to be brought back for another unsuccessful vote on Thursday.

Source: New York Times January 31, 2020 13:52 UTC