{"id":11,"date":"2026-09-06T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/joannalopez-com\/2026\/09\/06\/californias-housing-progress-understanding-paths-to-growth\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:00:00","slug":"californias-housing-progress-understanding-paths-to-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/06\/californias-housing-progress-understanding-paths-to-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s Housing Progress: Understanding Paths to Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>California cities and counties are falling short of state-mandated housing goals, especially for affordable units. Less than a third meet market-rate targets, and only 6% meet very-low-income housing goals. Despite laws to speed approvals, annual construction remains around 100,000 homes, far below the needed 312,000. Affordable housing struggles due to funding shortages, while moderate-income projects lack subsidies. Streamlining laws help but haven&#039;t sparked a major building surge.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/hsjchronicle.com\/california-housing-falls-short-of-state-targets-almost-everywhere-heres-why\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California cities and counties are falling short of state-mandated housing goals, especially for affordable units. Less than a third meet market-rate targets, and only 6% meet very-low-income housing goals. Despite laws to speed approvals, annual construction remains around 100,000 homes, far below the needed 312,000. Affordable housing struggles due to funding shortages, while moderate-income projects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}