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California Is Running Out of Safe Places to Build Homes
- California faces a severe housing shortage intensified by years of traumatic wildfires and officials wary of building in high-risk areas.
- This shortage stems from underbuilding relative to demand and restrictive policies that stifle new developments, a pattern seen also in Hawaii and the wider West.
- Governor Gavin Newsom recently approved a bill that waives certain environmental regulations for numerous housing developments in an effort to speed up construction and help alleviate the state's cost-of-living challenges.
- California has a shortage of approximately 1.8 million homes, representing about 12.2 percent of its 14.7 million housing units, while the nationwide shortage nears 5 million units.
- This shortage drives residents to neighboring states, pushing up prices there and underscoring the urgency of boosting supply to prevent further economic and social strain.
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Letters: California should be building housing smarter, not faster
Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. State must build smarter rather than faster Re: “State bill pausing local building codes forfeits climate progress” (Page A6, July 1). The referenced article by David Cohen and Vicky Veenker is spot on. Dismissing building codes purely to speed rebuilding is a false economy. In this time of need for more housing, including the replacement of housing destroyed by wil…
San Bernardino Sun
San Gabriel Valley TribuneCalifornia running out of safe places to build homes due to fires, rising seas
By Eliyahu Kamisher | Bloomberg California, gripped by a housing shortage that is forcing families from the state, wants to build 2.5 million homes. But it’s running out of safe places to put them. Much of the land best suited for new housing — windswept, grassy hills surrounding the state’s major cities — now faces an extreme threat of wildfire, brutally illustrated by the Los Angeles-area blazes in January that killed 30 people and destroyed m…
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