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In addition to shortage and affordability issues, the term "housing crisis" has been used for overlapping concepts such as a "fair housing crisis," involving residential discrimination and effects of segregation; an "eviction crisis"; issues of gentrification and displacement; and environmental concerns.
California has long faced one of the largest housing deficits in the United States. In December 2022, CNN reported California had the largest deficit in the nation. A combination of inflation ...
The crisis reached new heights last week when leading insurer State Farm General announced that it wouldn’t renew 72,000 property owner policies statewide, joining Farmers, Allstate and other ...
In much of the world, incomes are too low to afford basic formal housing, [2] as housing expenses have increased faster than wages in many cities, especially since the global financial crisis of 2008. [3] In some places, this leads to informal settlement in slums or shantytowns, while in others such informal settlements are prohibited. [2]
Opinion: Why California's housing crisis has serious consequences for pets as well as people. ... May 31, 2024 at 3:00 AM. A dog at the Chesterfield Square Animal Services Center in Los Angeles.
In January 2024 at least 187,084 people were experiencing homelessness in California, according to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. [ 1 ] : 8 This is 0.48% of California's population, one of the highest per capita rates in the nation.
Fischel, who’s written several books on the topic, says it was more democracy, not less, that made “California start to look different from the rest of the country,” in the ’70s and ’80s.
The California Social Housing Act is a proposed California bill to establish an independent statewide housing authority, known as the California Housing Authority, to acquire land for, develop, own and maintain public housing. The bill is authored by Alex Lee and was first introduced to the 2021–2022 session of the California State Legislature.