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Sacramento s Elmhurst neighborhood is comprised of mostly single-family homes. The City Council has voted on a draft plan to allow fourplexes in all residential areas.
Real estate developer Kevin Khasigian stands in an empty lot near Sacramento s booming downtown. The sound of a jackhammer from a nearby construction site rattles behind him. We re not in any buildings, just an open field with grass and trash cans and parking, he says.
He points to the edges of a future, four-unit apartment building he has planned for the space. Hopefully someday this will provide the opportunity for people to live in an area where they want to and that s really being underutilized.
Facing Housing Crunch, California Cities Rethink Single-Family Neighborhoods
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SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing In America is a 5 part series reimagining what housing could be by examining California, the epicenter of the nationâs housing affordability crisis.
Last fall, KQED launched a new, five-part podcast about possible solutions to the housing crisis. It’s called SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America, hosted by housing reporters Erin Baldassari and Molly Solomon.
Since then, Erin and Molly have also received lots of questions and comments from listeners who are curious about what’s happened on the housing front since the podcast dropped.
Today, we wanted to pass it off to them. Whether you’ve listened to SOLD OUT or not, this is a timely conversation about a subject that affects all of us.
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