Headline : Shameful: Gov. Newsom decries Elk Groves opposition to homeless housing, announces legal settlement

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A Northern California city has agreed to plan for more low-income housing and pay the state’s legal fees to settle a fair housing lawsuit, Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state officials announced Wednesday.

The state sued Elk Grove last year, alleging that the city unlawfully denied a 67-unit homeless housing development in a historic neighborhood despite having recently approved a similar market-rate development in the same area. Wednesday’s settlement calls for the city to identify another site in a high-resource community for low-income housing, accept state reporting and monitoring requirements for compliance with housing laws and pay $150,000 in attorney fees and costs.

The suburban Sacramento community of 178,000 already had settled with the developer, Excelerate Housing Group, to allow for a separate low-income project at a different location.

“We can’t solve California’s homelessness crisis without creating new housing and supportive services,” Newsom said in a statement. “Elk Grove is not immune to this challenge, and the city’s decision to block these efforts — wasting valuable time and resources — is especially shameful. We expect Elk Grove to follow the law — continued refusal will not be tolerated.”

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