Opinion: Developing the hills won’t solve the West’s housing crisis
California’s housing crisis, with its soaring real estate prices and 160,000 unhoused people, threatens these hills. It also threatens the remaining marshes and wetlands, coastal bluffs and mountain meadows. Any open space not yet protected by park or preserve is at risk. … Building farther out from population centers also strains other public resources. As demand expands for energy, emergency services and water, so must the infrastructure to provide them.
-Written by Nicholas Crane Moore, a writer and public-interest environmental attorney in Anchorage, Alaska, and a former California land-use attorney.