{"id":748,"date":"2026-04-06T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/?p=748"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:00:00","slug":"california-must-change-housing-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/california-must-change-housing-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"California Must Change Housing Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/zee-maestre-361550\/california-housing-change\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>18% of CA households can afford a median-priced single-family home, per a state REALTOR\u00ae group.<br \/>\nNew homes approved in 2024 were near 102,000, about 10,000 fewer than the year prior.<br \/>\nFirst half of 2025 permitting was \u219316% vs the 37-year average pace.<br \/>\nAuthor says VMT rules add fees outside urban areas, pushing costly high-density housing and penalizing some buyers.<br \/>\nVMT could add hundreds of thousands per unit; author urges 2026 reforms with homebuilders to boost supply.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18% of CA households can afford a median-priced single-family home, per a state REALTOR\u00ae group. New homes approved in 2024 were near 102,000, about 10,000 fewer than the year prior. First half of 2025 permitting was \u219316% vs the 37-year average pace. Author says VMT rules add fees outside urban areas, pushing costly high-density housing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}