SCOTUS asked to review Supreme Court affordable housing decision

Howard Mintz reports in today’s San Jose Mercury News that the California Building Industry Association has filed a certiorari petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the Association’s challenge to a San Jose ordinance that requires all new residential development projects of 20 or more units to sell at least 15 percent of the for-sale units at a price affordable to low or moderate income households.  In California Building Industry Association v. City of San Jose, the California Supreme Court three months ago held the enactment did not offend the takings clause of the federal and state constitutions.