Nate is an East Bay community papers editor for the Bay Area News Group and East Bay Times. He edits the Hills weekly Alameda Journal, Berkeley Voice, El Cerrito Journal, Montclarion and Piedmonter newspapers; Central Costa County's weekly Concord Transcript and Walnut Creek Journal papers; and East Contra Costa's weekly East County News.
Rarely has California seen so concerted and unified a campaign by its elected officials as the drive for housing density conducted by Gov. Gavin Newsom and allied state legislators over the past five years.
The more folks who migrate out of California, presumably vacating their previous homes, the more homeless numbers rise. Also, the greater the housing supply, as is becoming apparent, the more using it will cost. The latest official count showed California with about 170,000 homeless individuals on any given night, while the state’s Housing and Community Development Department now estimates the housing shortage at 2.5 million units. Those government estimates of housing need have varied over the last five years between 1.8 and 3.5 million units, but fewer than 10% of any of those amounts have been built in any one year.
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