LOS ANGELES, CA—California developers will feel extra pressure to include affordable housing in their projects, in light of a California Supreme Court decision issued Monday. In the exclusive column below, Edgar Khalatian and Spencer B. Kallick of Mayer Brown LLP discuss the implications of this new decision.

The views expressed in this column below are the author's own.

If they have not already, California developers are about to feel extra pressure to either include affordable housing in their projects or be required to pay an in lieu fee. And they have a recent California Supreme Court decision to thank. On Monday, the court issued a decision that allows California cities and counties to require developers to include below-market rate affordable housing as a condition to the issuance of a building permit. The decision makes it easier for cities with housing shortages to require property owners to pay an in-lieu fee or build affordable housing.

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