The governor and housing advocates maintain that CEQA, while well-intentioned at the time, puts up bureaucratic roadblocks.

CEQA, one of the country’s strictest state-level regulatory frameworks affecting housing projects and other development, was signed into law by Ronald Reagan.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is lagging far behind his campaign pledge to build millions more homes, was poised Monday evening to sign the most significant rollback in decades to California’s core environmental law that’s long been blamed for construction delays and soaring prices.