{"id":1555759,"date":"2022-07-15T07:30:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T11:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1555759"},"modified":"2022-07-15T07:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T11:34:25","slug":"liberal-california-has-the-nations-most-severe-housing-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-california-has-the-nations-most-severe-housing-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal California Has the Nation&#8217;s Most Severe Housing Deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fliberal-california-has-the-nations-most-severe-housing-deficit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1555759&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2022-07\/GettyImages-1241883161.jpg?h=199d8c1f&#038;itok=SibqaEaZ\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>California has the most severe housing underproduction in the nation, reaching a deficit of nearly 980,000 homes, according to a new report released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upforgrowth.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-07\/UFG_Underproduction_Report_Pages.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The study<\/a>, released by Up for Growth, found that 47 states, the District of Columbia and 169 out of 309 metropolitan areas have a housing deficit. Nationwide, the study found that housing underproduction has reached 3.79 million units \u2013 up from 1.65 million units in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>At the state level, California leads the nation in housing underproduction, with the report estimating the state has a deficit of 978,000 homes \u2013 an increase of 82% since 2012. The state with the second-highest deficit is Texas at 322,000 homes and Florida at 289,000 homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the nation 3.8 million homes short of meeting housing needs, the U.S. is in an extreme state of housing underproduction,\u201d Mike Kingsella, CEO of Up for Growth, said in a statement. \u201cHousing affordability is foundational for building and sustaining healthy local economies, and provides individuals and families with the stability necessary to invest in themselves and their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report notes that the reasons for housing deficits nationwide can be unique to certain locations. \u201cIn Detroit, underproduction is driven by uninhabitable units, while in Sacramento, a lack of housing is driving the shortage,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s crippling housing shortage and crisis has caught the attention of the Legislature, and several lawmakers have introduced bills in recent years to make it easier to build homes in the state.<\/p>\n<p>One such bill, <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 9<\/a>, took effect January 1 and makes it easier for homeowners to subdivide an existing lot. Under the law, up to four units can be built on a single-family zoned parcel.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers have also introduced several housing measures this year to address the state\u2019s shortage. One measure authored by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks would allow housing to be built in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/california\/california-bill-would-allow-affordable-housing-in-office-retail-parking-areas\/article_14d041f8-c019-11ec-8b08-631fcfebab5d.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cunderutilized commercial sites\u201d<\/a> \u2013 including areas zoned for office, retail and parking \u2013 while another measure by Assemblymember Laura Friedman would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/california\/new-california-homes-near-most-public-transit-wouldnt-need-parking-under-new-bill\/article_b2d78612-e38d-11ec-8dd9-df64cc4c157c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eliminate costly parking mandates<\/a> near major transit stops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalifornia\u2019s shortages of affordable housing and our growing homelessness challenges have become a humanitarian crisis, and we have to treat them with that sense of urgency,\u201d Wicks, D-Oakland, who serves as chair of the Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development, said in a statement in April.<\/p>\n<p>If California closed its housing gap, \u201chome prices and rents would grow 20% more slowly than if the status quo continued unchecked,\u201d the report estimates.<\/p>\n<p>To address housing underproduction, the report lays out a framework that prioritizes the creation of homes in areas with \u201chigh economic mobility, access to jobs and existing infrastructure.\u201d It also pinpoints the three main drivers of housing underproduction nationwide \u2013 insufficient availability, uninhabitable units and missing households, which refers to the increase of more unrelated people choosing to live together, preventing new households from forming.<\/p>\n<p>The study also identifies housing affordability as \u201can expanding national crisis\u201d that not only contributes to higher rates of cost-burdened renters but higher rates of homelessness as well. The report states that \u201cthe nation\u2019s highest rates of houselessness are in the Washington DC-Boston corridor, the West Coast, and Hawaii, all areas with high-priced, supply constrained housing markets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>California has the highest rate of homeless individuals in the nation, with over 161,500 experiencing homelessness on any given day, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usich.gov\/homelessness-statistics\/ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States Interagency Council on Homelessness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve long known one of the core drivers of our region\u2019s homelessness crisis is the lack of affordable housing,\u201d Maria Salinas of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce said in a statement. \u201cEliminating barriers which inhibit economic equity, especially with something as integral as housing, is crucial to our economic recovery and will ensure the dignity and well-being of all of L.A.\u2019s communities and communities around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California has the most severe housing underproduction in the nation, reaching a deficit of nearly 980,000 homes, according to a new report released Thursday.The study, released by Up for Growth,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1573797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1555759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1573797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}