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A patchwork of bills is giving housing developers and local governments more options to reduce red tape for housing projects.
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California has severe income inequality, high living costs and a lack of affordable housing, and it now has more than 171,000 people who are homeless — 30 percent of the U.S. total. The new study found that they tend to be older than average and are disproportionately Black or Native American.
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