The leading Democratic candidates for governor in California want to see housing production scaled up dramatically, but that’s hardly a new concept — so did Gavin Newsom.
Campaigning for the office in 2018, Newsom laid out a goal of building 3.5 million new homes across two terms in Sacramento. As his final year as governor winds down, most projections show the state will fall drastically short of that goal despite Newsom signing hundreds of housing laws and other measures designed to spur new construction and free up existing projects to be completed.
