Fixing California’s housing crisis: What candidates for governor would do

California’s housing shortage is a crisis that the next governor will have to fix, the six leading candidates for the job say.

. . . California has added fewer than 80,000 homes each year over the past decade, while the need has been closer to 180,000, according to the state Department of Housing and Community Development. That lack of supply has driven up the cost of housing, the agency noted in a recent report, resulting in California’s lowest home-ownership rates since the 1940s.