{"id":81,"date":"2026-10-07T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2026-10-07T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:00:00","slug":"californias-11-3b-housing-bond-heads-to-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/07\/californias-11-3b-housing-bond-heads-to-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s $11.3B Housing Bond Heads to Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/joanna-lopez\/what-does-24-billion-buy-in-the-california-housing-market-remotion-videos-e377\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>California estimates it needs ~180K new homes yearly to meet demand, yet actual construction remains a little less than half that pace.<br \/>\nEven with ~$24B in state housing subsidies, California&#039;s median house price is pushing $1M, underscoring how affordability efforts have not closed the supply gap.<br \/>\nIn Orange County, one new development was approved recently after ~50 yr in review, illustrating how long entitlement timelines can stall new supply.<br \/>\nFor an avg. new home, approvals can add ~$40K, while multiple agencies can block projects even when no single decision-maker can say yes.<br \/>\nState leaders backed an $11.25B bond measure headed to the Early-Q4 2026 ballot, partly to fund tens of thousands of approved affordable units statewide.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California estimates it needs ~180K new homes yearly to meet demand, yet actual construction remains a little less than half that pace. Even with ~$24B in state housing subsidies, California&#039;s median house price is pushing $1M, underscoring how affordability efforts have not closed the supply gap. In Orange County, one new development was approved recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","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\/81","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=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}