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  2. California housing shortage - Wikipedia

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    The state had the 37th lowest permitting rate in the country, with some states (Idaho and Utah) permitting at more than double California's rate. [127] While California's permitting rate has been increasing, with the rate having increased 20% for the five years 2018–2022 compared to the previous five years, the state's rate still lags the ...

  3. 1978 California Proposition 13 - Wikipedia

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    California has the highest marginal income and capital gains tax rate and is in the top ten highest corporate tax and sales tax rates nationally. In 2016, California had the 17th-highest per-capita (per-person) property tax revenue in the country at $1,559, up from 31st in 1996. [ 30 ]

  4. 2000s United States housing market correction - Wikipedia

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    House in Salinas, California under foreclosure, following the bursting of the U.S. real estate bubble. The 30-year mortgage rates increased by more than a half a percentage point to 6.74 percent during May–June 2007, [78] affecting borrowers with the best credit just as a crackdown in subprime lending standards limits the pool of qualified ...

  5. Timeline of the 2000s United States housing bubble - Wikipedia

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    2004–2005: Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii, and Nevada record price increases in excess of 25% per year. [citation needed] 2004-2006: The Federal Reserve hiked interest rates in 17 consecutive quarterly meetings from 1% to 6.25% to slow the economy and forestall inflation. This greatly increased the cost of lending, especially for loans ...

  6. 2000s United States housing bubble - Wikipedia

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    The 2000s United States housing bubble or house price boom or 2000s housing cycle [2] was a sharp run up and subsequent collapse of house asset prices affecting over half of the U.S. states. In many regions a real estate bubble , it was the impetus for the subprime mortgage crisis .

  7. History of California - Wikipedia

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    The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...

  8. History of California (1900–present) - Wikipedia

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    The death toll from the earthquake and resulting fire is the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude (M w) or Richter magnitude (M L) of 7.8; [7] however, other values have been proposed, from 7.7 to as high as 8.25. [8]

  9. Bibliography of California history - Wikipedia

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    Kevin Starr, former professor of History and California State Librarian has written many highly regarded books [1] on the history of California including the multi-volume Americans & the California Dream Series which contain a significant amount of history about Los Angeles and the surrounding area. California: A History. New York: Modern Library.