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“Every time we build new units and move people in, at least the same number of homeless people move into whatever cities do the building...With our climate and our policies, we are attracting homeless people from all over America.” Photo: Sam Catanzaro.
It turns out Gov. Gavin Newsom was deadly serious when he insisted as a candidate last year that California needs to build 3.5 million new housing units over the next ten years in order to solve its affordable housing crisis. That’s a total of 3.5 million, more than double what builders around the state have put up in any of the last few decades.