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Sweeping solutions, not half measures, needed to fix California’s housing crisis
February 13, 2020
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“A chorus of experts agrees with Wiener that we need to build up, not out, and that housing needs to be built near jobs and housing needs to be built near jobs and public transportation. Today, too much of the new housing being approved in the Golden State is low-density sprawl. Fifty years ago, it was reasonable to expect that single-family homes on large lots could dominate the state’s housing stock. But California’s booming economy has pushed our state to a population of nearly 40 million people, and single-family detached homes cannot reasonably accommodate all of us.”
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