Gavin Newsom: “110,000 housing units were completed last year.”

“Looked at state excess land sites which has unlocked over 5,000 units, began a process of working with carrots and stick to move from NIMBYism to a YIMBYist mindset, which I think we have demonstrated in meaningful ways, in substantive ways. 110,000 housing units were completed last year. It's completely, completely underwhelming. And so we have more work to do. Why is it so hard? Because you've wanted to do this. You put a 3.5 million housing production goal.” (36:41–36:45)

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