Low housing supply
Never has it cost so much to buy a house in California.
The median price for a single-family home shot up to a staggering $758,990 in March a nearly 6% increase from the previous record of $717,930 set in December and a whopping 24% increase from March 2020, according to figures released Friday by the state Department of Finance. It’s at least the sixth time the Golden State’s housing market has broken its own record amid the pandemic it did so five times in 2020 alone, cracking the $700,000 median price mark for the first time in August.
Meanwhile, housing production has strayed farther and farther from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s campaign goal of building 500,000 units annually as the state’s homeless population swells to record levels. California approved permits for 102,800 new housing units in 2020 an 8.8% decrease from 2019, itself a 3.8% decrease from 2018. Lawmakers are currently considering a raft of bills to increase affordable housing producti
Resilient redwoods a beacon of hope
California state park recovering from blaze 8 months ago By MARTHA MENDOZA, Associated Press
Published: April 25, 2021, 6:09am
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3 Photos Fire burns Aug. 24 in the hollow of an old-growth redwood tree in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Calif. Eight months after a lightning siege ignited more than 650 wildfires in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, the state s oldest park, which was almost entirely ablaze, is doing what nature does best: recovering. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press) Photo Gallery
BIG BASIN REDWOODS STATE PARK, Calif. Eight months after a lightning siege ignited more than 650 wildfires in Northern California, the state’s oldest park which was almost entirely ablaze is doing what nature does best: recovering.
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Eight months after a lightning siege ignited more than 650 wildfires in Northern California, the state’s oldest park which was almost entirely ablaze is doing what nature does best: recovering.
Big Basin Redwoods State Park is closed, but during a backcountry guided tour earlier this week, clusters of chartreuse shoots were budding on blackened redwood branches and trunks. Bright yellow bush poppies, white violets and star lilies dotted the scorched landscape. Hillsides of purple California lilac shrubs were fixing nitrogen in the soil. And new Knobcone pine trees, which need temperatures above 350 degrees to pop open their cones and drop their seeds, were sprouting.