Image by Dragon Claws. OPINION – Rising insurance costs and lack of coverage is a common headline in California and across the country these days, but the acute challenges for affordable housing—and the state’s most vulnerable residents who live there—have received far less attention.
A wood frame of a house under construction in rural California. (Photo: Joseph Sohm, via Shutterstock)
Wood frame of house under construction, Lone Pine, CAOPINION: When it comes to California’s housing crisis, policy makers have often taken the narrow approach of throwing money at efforts to boost supply of sub-market rate units, with comparatively little focus on the dynamics that are driving demand for low income housing.