California school districts own 75,000 acres of developable land, enough to create an estimated 2.3 million new housing units throughout the state, according to department officials.
The state Department of Education is poised to get into the housing business, to pitch in to ease the chronic shortage of housing, which has become California’s top economic, social and political issue.
Following Tuesday’s press conference, Thurmond will convene a panel of housing experts at a housing summit on Aug. 14 to identify policy recommendations that can to boost housing development throughout the state, including housing that meets the needs of families in lower-income brackets. “We know that families across our state are impacted, from the homelessness crisis facing our urban areas, to the long commute times impacting families priced out of once-affordable neighborhoods, to the staffing crisis in schools whose educators can’t afford to live where they work,” he added. “I believe that California has enough resources and ingenuity to solve this, and the data shows that California’s schools have the land to make this happen.
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