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“If we are building less housing, then the city is going to become even more unaffordable,” said co-author Shane Phillips, the housing initiative project manager with UCLA’s Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies.

Many economists argue that a decade of protectionist policies has undercut Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Make in India initiative, which focused on capital and technology-intensive sectors while sidelining labour-intensive industries like textiles.

DeMaio believes the initiative will have widespread support in California, too, calling it “shameful” for his colleagues to kill the bill.

The order also takes aim at California’s cap-and-trade program — a first-of-its-kind initiative that sets limits on companies’ greenhouse gas emissions and allows them to sell “credits” for unused emissions to other companies.

Elisa Pabon said she was Colombian American and had received funding via NIH initiatives meant to promote diversity and aid scholars from underrepresented communities — programs that she said have been eliminated by Trump.