I am somewhat optimistic about California figuring things out thanks to the raft of YIMBY legislation that came out in the last two years, but we'll have to see how things go as interest rates kill off easy money for development and a massive budget deficit takes some public options off the table.

How Houston Halved Homelessness—and What California Can Learn From It
Houston, like California, follows the Housing First model, but Texas’s most populous city has a vast supply of low-cost homes.
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