Editorial: Los Angeles will soon have a plan to start solving its housing crisis

It’s possible that 2021 will be the year that California begins to end the state’s housing crisis.

Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of bills that effectively eliminated single-family zoning in most of California, making it easier to build more housing in more neighborhoods. That was a big deal because restrictive zoning has been a major constraint on housing production for decades.

But there is an even more important change underway across the state. Every eight years, cities and counties have to produce a voluminous document, called a Housing Element, that demonstrates how they will plan