Red Tape, Real Costs

California has long been synonymous with housing impossibility — sky-high costs, entrenched red tape, and years-long permitting nightmares. But something is changing. In this episode, Sean Faries sits down with Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, District 14, one of Sacramento's most active housing reformers, to break down the policy shifts reshaping the California construction landscape. Assembly member Wicks authored AB 2011, helped eliminate CEQA for infill housing, and is now championing a package of bills to unlock factory-built and modular construction at scale. If you finance construction in California — or you're watching this market to understand where the regulatory tide is turning — this conversation belongs in your queue.