California Housing Update – March 2023
Multiple Rallies in University City Area Over Proposed Housing Units
10 News – ABC San Diego – March 11
Multiple rallies took place over proposed housing units coming to the University City neighborhood in San Diego Saturday. A group of more than 100 people gathered across four street corners in the neighborhood, holding signs outlining their disapproval of the idea. Meanwhile, another rally took place hosted by those in favor of more than 30,000 new housing units coming to the area.
How Bureaucracy Fuels S.F.’s Housing Crisis
San Francisco Chronicle – March 11
Each housing project Moss has developed in San Francisco has faced the same agonizing hurdles: months of preliminary coordination meetings followed by years of negotiations, paperwork and meetings to receive project approval — only to then be faced with an onslaught of permits before finally breaking ground.
Advocates Push for State Amendment to Make Housing a ‘Human Right’
San Jose Mercury – March 12
A coalition of anti-poverty advocates led by Matt Haney, a Democratic state assemblymember from San Francisco, is proposing an amendment to the state constitution that seeks to do just that. The amendment does not define a right to housing, and backers have offered few specifics about what it would mean in practice. But they say it could make it easier for state officials to sue local governments that resist adding signThe US housing market is short 6.5 million homesificantly more affordable housing. To pass, it needs a two-thirds majority in the state Legislature and then approval by voters.
The US Housing Market is Short 6.5 Million Homes
CNN – March 8, 2023
The United States is not building enough homes to account for the number of people setting up their own households. As a result, there is a sizable shortage of new homes after more than a decade of under-building relative to population growth, according to a new analysis from Realtor.com released Wednesday. The gap between single-family home constructions and household formations grew to 6.5 million homes between 2012 and 2022. However, this figure overstates the housing shortage, since new multi-family homes offer options both to buyers and renters. If multi-family construction is included — which is predominantly rental units — this gap is cut to 2.3 million homes.
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