What is California doing about its sky-high housing prices? Just ask the state’s housing chiefs.
In this special edition of the California Housing Crisis Podcast, The Los Angeles Times’ Liam Dillon and CalMatters’ Manuela Tobias interview Lourdes Castro Ramírez, secretary of the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency; Gustavo Velasquez, director of the California Department of Housing & Community Development; and Tiena Johnson Hall, executive director of California’s Housing Finance Agency.
Citron Apartment Homes, the newest multi-family community in Riverside, is now pre-leasing. It is designed for the lifestyle residents want now with space to work, recreate, and gather. The apartment community offers modern living with sophisticated style to the Inland Empire, one of the fastest growing communities in the nation.
Housing. It’s an issue full of inequities that continue to impact minority and Black families in California.
Whether it was redlining in the 1930s, a discriminatory practice of denying financial services to residents of certain areas based on their race or ethnicity, or racist language embedded in property records, people of color have battled housing inequality for far too long.