As California faces soaring numbers of unhoused residents, building affordable housing must remain atop the state’s homelessness-prevention plan. More than 187,000 Californians experienced homelessness in 2024 — a stunning 24 percent of the entire nation’s homeless population. The state is at risk of adding even more families to this alarming figure. Among those at risk are working families, often holding one or two jobs, who are just one setback — such as a job loss, major illness, natural disaster, domestic violence incident or childcare crisis — away from housing instability. …
