By City News Service
Apr 20, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A USC study released today found that Californians have embraced telehealth and remote work during the coronavirus pandemic, and many expect to take far fewer work- and heath-related vehicle trips even after it ends.
“The hesitancy towards remote work, learning and telehealth was swept away by necessity during the pandemic, said Hernan Galperin, the study s lead researcher and an associate professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
“Now we re seeing a seismic shift in the way people want to work, learn and manage health visits among those who have broadband access, Galperin said. “Those changes give us a real opportunity to cut congestion and carbon emissions.
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The Long Beach City Council and the public got its first extended look at a housing policy that could determine where future density and affordable housing is located, sparking some early opposition to the fact that much of East Long Beach could be left untouched.
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Long Beach needs to make room for 26,502 units over the next eight years, according to the latest Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) approved by the Southern California Association of Governments in March. And nearly 60% of those units need to be affordable.
The city met just 17% of its affordable housing needs during the last RHNA allocation cycle.