The process cost adds to that. If it takes three, four, five, seven years to get something approved instead of like three to six months, which some of the laws that we've been able to pass that streamline permits say that if you have to, the city has to give the permit within 3 to 6 months depending on the size of the project. So for example, bridge housing, which is the largest nonprofit affordable housing building in California, told us that after a particular law that I authored was signed into law, SB 35, once that happened, there were average time to get a permit to build dropped from an average of seven years to an average of four months.

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