Having more or less completed work on the state budget, legislators abandoned the Capitol last week for their annual summer vacation.
They will return in mid-August, presumably, tanned, rested and ready to vigorously tackle other pending matters in the final month of the 2021 session.
High on the agenda is the single most important issue facing California â an ever-growing housing shortage, particularly for low- and moderate-income families, that is the prime factor in our highest-in-the-nation poverty rate and a major barrier to expanding employment.
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