By Elizabeth Zach, RCAC staff writer

California’s new governor, Gavin Newsom, has made housing one of the cornerstones of his agenda, but an academic report says that limited zoned land will make that goal hard to achieve.

Newsom’s plan is to build 3.5 million new homes in California, but there isn’t nearly enough land zoned for housing development, according to the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California at Los Angeles. Newsom’s budget plan allocates more than $1 billion to cities and counties to approve new housing and homelessness services.

The report “shows pretty clearly that it’s going to be a hard slog to actually get 3.5 million housing units built,” Paavo Monkkonen, an associate professor of urban planning and public publicity at UCLA told the Los Angeles Times.

The rate at which the homes would have to be built, noted Monkkonen, would more than quadruple the state’s current annual production.

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