Newsom admits he stretched housing truth about a 3.5 million-unit shortfall

Gov. Gavin Newsom has recanted his repeated and insistent suggestion that the state’s housing challenges require 3.5 million homes to be swiftly built.
He recently described this target — based on a flawed and outdated consultant’s study — as a “stretch goal,” whatever that means. Plus, he says he’s tossed that math and is having new construction goals formulated. Sadly, the governor’s very public stretching of the housing-shortage truth only furth