Coronado and Imperial Beach Haven’t Produced a Single Affordable Home in Years

Coronado and Imperial Beach Haven’t Produced a Single Affordable Home in Years

Coronado and Imperial Beach are about as opposite as two California beach communities can be. One exclusive, wealthy, Republican leaning. The other working class, Democratic, not-so-long-ago affordable and not too high on most vacation lists. But they do share one key fact: Neither permitted a single unit of affordable housing between 2018 and the end of last year, according to an analysis by Voice of San Diego and KPBS. Even Del Mar, which is m…

Coronado and Imperial Beach haven’t produced a single affordable home in years

A tale of two San Diego County coastal communities: One affluent and resistant to change, the other working-class and eager for development, yet both failing to deliver on much-needed affordable homes.