Opinion: California housing and the environment are often at odds. They don’t have to be

California’s housing shortage and climate crisis are often treated as if they are unrelated to each other. In fact, they are deeply interconnected.

We need to address not only how much housing we build but also where we build it. That’s the idea and the promise behind new legislation backed by a novel coalition of housing and environmental advocates.

Read the full op-ed co-authored by The Nature Conservancy and California YIMBY here.

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