Few Californians took Gavin Newsom particularly seriously when he said during his 2018 run for governor that the state should plan to add 3.5 million homes over the next seven years. After all, California has never in its history reached that pace of construction for a single year — let alone done it seven years on the trot.
It turns out he might have meant it.
Firing a shot across the bows of California’s cities, counties and regions last week, his administration shocked Southern Californians…