San Diego 101: Why Is It so Hard to Build Housing?

San Diego 101: Why Is It so Hard to Build Housing?

As Californians, we live the housing crisis every day. It’s the force that empties our bank accounts at the end of the month, dominates our news headlines and populates our local sidewalks with tents. We call it a “crisis,” but it hardly snuck up on us. This shortage has been in the making for decades. Many factors play into our current housing shortage: population dynamics, restrictive zoning laws, anti-housing sentiment, complicated regulation…

San Diego 101: Why is it so hard to build housing?

San Diego’s housing crisis has been in the making for decades. Here’s how we got here, and how we may be able to get ourselves out.