Housing Demand Drives Sprawl
25 February 2003 - 9:00am
As the state tries to meet housing demand, suburban sprawl spreads across the California landscape.
"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."
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San Jose Mercury News, February 25, 2003
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