(The Center Square) — A new report from California YIMBY has found California must build 3.5 million homes by 2025 to address its housing shortage, and that governor Gavin Newsom’s housing production efforts have failed to sufficiently increase housing production, which in 2022 was just 116,000 new units of housing.

“This shortage has resulted in rising rents and prices, closed access to homeownership for many families, and forced many Californians to leave the state altogether,” the report said.