The Washington Post, April 19, 2023, California Needs More Homes. So Why Are These Sitting Vacant?
The empty houses belong to the state’shighway authority, which bought them decades ago to make way for an extension of Interstate 710 that never got built. Now, what began as failed transportation policy has become failed housing policy, exacerbated by the kind of litigation and infighting that can make even the simplest issues in California tremendously hard to solve.
