Newsom’s Top Housing Adviser Says ‘Start With Yes’
Jason Elliott, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s adviser on housing and homelessness, said that while the state can build housing for homeless people and the very poor, the private sector is essential to easing the statewide housing shortage. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, Calmatters.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom has repeatedly made housing affordability a top priority of his administration. But getting a good read on his thinking can be difficult.
During a panel discussion hosted by Capitol Weekly on Wednesday, Jason Elliott, Newsom’s top advisor on housing and homelessness, provided a glimpse. The big takeaway: California is millions of housing units short, and cities hold the key.
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California home construction hits 13-year high. It s not enough to slow skyrocketing prices
Sacramento Bee 2 hrs ago Tony Bizjak and Phillip Reese, The Sacramento Bee
May 12 Housing construction in California jumped last year to the highest level since the Great Recession, topping 100,000 new units despite the COVID-19 pandemic and a historic state population decline.
But economists and housing analysts say the Golden State remains mired in a housing crisis, still unable to produce enough homes and apartments to adequately house working families and to break the cycle of escalating real estate costs.
Some 103,000 new housing units were built in 2020, an 8% jump from the previous year, according to data from the state Department of Finance demographics unit. Slightly more than half were single-family homes, slightly less than half were apartments.