Wildfires Create Major Obstacle for California Housing Goals
The state is running out of safe places to build new homes.
Construction at the Silverwood development in Hesperia, California.
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California is desperate to build 2.5 million homes to stem an exodus of families squeezed out by a housing shortage. But it’s running out of safe places to put them.