California running out of safe places to build homes due to fires, rising seas

California running out of safe places to build homes due to fires, rising seas

By Eliyahu Kamisher | Bloomberg California, gripped by a housing shortage that is forcing families from the state, wants to build 2.5 million homes. But it’s running out of safe places to put them. Much of the land best suited for new housing — windswept, grassy hills surrounding the state’s major cities — now faces an extreme threat of wildfire, brutally illustrated by the Los Angeles-area blazes in January that killed 30 people and destroyed m…

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California is running out of safe places to build homes due to fires, rising Seas

(Bloomberg/Eliyahu Kamisher) — California, gripped by a housing shortage that is forcing families from the state, wants to build 2.5 million homes. But it’s running out of safe places to put them. Much of the land best suited for new housing — wind-swept, grassy hills surrounding the state’s major cities — now faces an extreme threat of wildfire, brutally illustrated by the Los Angeles-area blazes in January that killed 30 people and destroyed m…