Senator Wiener’s Statement on Laborers’ Support of SB 423

SACRAMENTO – Today, the Northern California District Council of Laborers released a letter in support of SB 423, which extends and expands SB 35 (Wiener, 2017), landmark legislation that accelerates housing permits in areas that underperform their housing targets. The Laborers join the California Conference of Carpenters in support of the legislation, and together the two unions represent hundreds of thousands of skilled construction workers.

“I’m thrilled to add the Laborers to the growing chorus of support for extending and strengthening one of our state’s most effective tools for building affordable housing,” said Senator Wiener. “SB 423 is a worker-led bill, extending new wage and health care requirements to hundreds of thousands of workers. Workers are essential to tackling our state’s housing shortage, and SB 423 is a big step forward.”

SB 423 is sponsored by the California Housing Consortium, California Conference of Carpenters, the Inner City Law Center, the Local Initiative Support Corporation, and California YIMBY.

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