Column: The White House says the answer to the housing crisis is a lot more homes
This federal funding could help Long Beach cover the cost of updating codes and regulations to allow more construction.
I’ve written extensively about the housing crisis here in Long Beach and in California at large.
I wrote about how Long Beach needs tens of thousands of new homes to address our shortage. I wrote about how San Diego and other cities are already doing exactly that. And then I talked about how the way to get there isn’t with more regulation, it’s by removing the red tape around housing construction.
I even wrote about how the location of that new housing would have a big impact on its liveability and could perpetuate racist, segregation-era patterns of housing discrimination.
On Tuesday morning, the White House released a statement announcing plans to build more than 2 million new homes to address a nationwide housing crisis.
