The pressure to remake neighborhoods like Clairemont is due not to some sudden shift in what people want out of a home but rather to the sweeping social changes that have already played out inside them. As the Columbia University historian Kenneth Jackson wrote in “Crabgrass Frontier,” his seminal history of America’s suburbs: “No society can be fully understood apart from the residences of its members.” —
Applications for ADUs in San Diego have skyrocketed since 2018, part of a nationwide trend that is changing the way some cities are tackling the affordability crisis which has gotten out of hand as a direct result of antiquated housing policy that insisted on the type of single-family developments that, for some, forms the basis of the American Dream.
The state recently passed two laws effectively banning single-family zoning in an effort to create some of the anticipated 1.8 million units of housing needed by 2025 to match demands. San Diego recently surpassed Los Angeles on a list of least affordable metro areas in the United States. Home prices averaging north of $800,000 have far outpaced the city's median income. The New York Times has a look at some of the real faces of California’s housing crisis here.
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