Good morning. I'm Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, June 22, 2024. Here's what we've been doing in Opinion. Los Angeles needs more housing, and the statistics on homelessness make that abundantly clear. Problem is, more than three-quarters of residential land in the city's 469 square miles is zoned for single-family homes, putting the task of alleviating our housing shortage on a sliver of the city.
As the editorial board noted in a separate piece this week, extreme heat is already the deadliest weather phenomenon in the state, and by mid-century more than 11,000 Californians could die every year if we continue with current rates of greenhouse gas emissions. Affordable housing, then, is also an issue of climate justice.
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