Housing Demand Drives Sprawl

As the state tries to meet housing demand, suburban sprawl spreads across the California landscape.

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February 25, 2003, 9:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"As California grows more desperate for new housing, needing 220,000 new homes a year to catch up with demand, the solution of build, build, build is also a problem. Even as developers expect to produce only 170,000 houses and apartments across California in 2003, they are repeating a 50-year pattern that has swallowed farm towns, weakened older neighborhoods and triggered spectacular increases in driving and new waves of air pollution."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: Housing prices push sprawl across California landscape

Tuesday, February 25, 2003 in San Jose Mercury News

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