Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to solicit bids from developers by the end of this year to build homes on at least three state-owned properties.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, center, discusses the homelessness problem facing California after a meeting in March with the mayors of some of the state's largest cities.
The proposal, announced Thursday, follows a January executive order to survey state lands to determine where housing could be constructed. State officials culled a list of nearly 45,000 state-owned parcels, finding 1,300 that could be viable for new homes.“My administration is using every tool at our disposal to combat the housing affordability crisis our families face,” Newsom said in a statement.
The effort takes aim at one of the major barriers to building low-income housing in the state: the rising cost of land.more than doubled in San Francisco and almost tripled in Los Angeles,
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