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Tuesday, Jul 23, 2019Posted in: Affordable Housing, California, Elizabeth Zach, Featured News
Northern California rural communities losing affordable housing
California’s chronic housing shortage is not only an urban problem. As more residents flee the cities in search of affordable housing, rising housing prices and stagnant wages follow them.
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Friday, Jul 19, 2019Posted in: Affordable Housing, California, Elizabeth Zach, Featured News
California’s Kern County lags in affordable housing
California lawmakers say that Kern County, in the rural Central Valley, is failing to build enough housing. The lawmakers base their conclusion on a California Department of Housing and Community Development report, which cites that all of Kern’s 11 cities and the county itself, are failing to meet state housing construction requirements.
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Thursday, Jul 18, 2019Posted in: California, Elizabeth Zach, Featured News
Cap-and-trade revenue in California could help fight Central Valley’s contaminated water
Although California’s Legislature is required to spend cap-and-trade money on carbon emission reduction projects, some experts say that helping rural water districts—namely in the state’s Central Valley—would go a long way toward easing climate change effects.
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