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Housing the Homeless

By James Fenkner, CFA

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Santa Barbara Current
May 15, 2025
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Behind California’s Housing and Homelessness Fiasco

At the 44th Annual UCSB Economic Forecast Project in Santa Barbara, UCLA economics professor Lee Ohanian delivered a searing critique of California’s housing affordability and homelessness situation, exposing them as policy failures that betray the state’s promise.

The Golden State, once synonymous with …

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