Pandemic saps state effort to curb housing crisis

Somewhere in a parallel universe, 2020 is the year California finally took steps to tackle its housing crisis and end homelessness.
That’s how the year began. But in our universe, that’s not how things turned out.
When 2020 began, Gov. Gavin Newsom and top lawmakers vowed they were going to pass a “production package,” pulling together a collection of bills to build duplexes in single-family neighborhoods and streamlining high-density zoning for small projects and afforda