In unveiling a new budget for California, the state’s newly inaugurated governor Gavin Newsom has emphasized $1.75 billion to address a severe affordable housing shortage.
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California’s Central Valley outpaces coastal areas on some economic measures
Job growth and population gains in California’s mostly rural Central Valley surpassed the same measures in the state’s more populous Bay Area and Southern region, which some analysts say could be encouraging trends for the coming year.
Low-income rural renters face worsening affordable housing crisis
Low-income residents renting homes in rural areas face an ever shrinking supply of affordable housing, which experts say will only worsen in the coming years.
California’s housing shortage worsened by wildfires
Before wildfires struck earlier this year in northern California, the state already was struggling to provide housing for a growing population. Now, following the Camp Fire in Butte County, as well as four others in the past 14 months, thousands of Californians who lost their homes can find nowhere to live.
California legislators focus on housing
California’s housing crisis took center stage during the first week of the state’s new legislative session. Two Northern California Democrats believe there is a need to incentivize rural and urban planners to approve new housing projects by establishing a replacement tool for redevelopment agencies.