The state Department of Finance (DOF) has reported, in its official population estimates, that California continued to lose population during calendar year 2022 read more »
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Los Angeles Slips Below 2010 Population: New State of California Estimates
California Growth and Domestic Migration: Changing Trends
For nearly all the 20th century, California was the national growth leader. In every census from 1930 to 2000, California added more residents than any other state. read more »
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California Has a Population Problem – At a Minimum
There’s not much reason to expect more than a churn of mediocrity from the Los Angeles Times these days. read more »
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California Jobs: A Multi-Dimensional Problem
“From the Beginning, California promised much. While yet barely a name on the map, it entered American awareness as a symbol of renewal. It was a final frontier: of geography and of expectation.”
— Kevin Starr, “Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915” (1973) read more »
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California 2022: 400,000 Leave, Yolo County Grows the Most
California continues to lose population, according to the latest State Department of Finance estimates for the year ended July 2022. read more »
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California: Most Urban and Densest Urban State
The 2020 Census reveals California to have both the highest urban population density and the highest urbanization share of total population among the states. read more »
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How the California Dream Became a Nighmare
For Americans, California once looked like the future. It was a state defined by risk-taking and utopian dreaming. Yet for most Californians today, the upward mobility so central to the state’s ethos is rapidly disappearing. read more »
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Friends of the Urban Forest
Cities are better when there’s a generous tree canopy. Vegetation keeps the city cooler in summer, trees help clean the air, absorb noise, and beautify the landscape. Properties on tree lined streets are often more desirable and statistically more valuable than those in barren neighborhoods. read more »
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West Coast Blues
Few regions have been more consistently Democratic than the West Coast. Even compared with the Northeast, where Republicans occasionally win governors’ offices, the appropriately named “left coast” has been adamantine in its progressivism. Republicans haven’t won statewide office in California in years; in Oregon, it’s decades. Washington has elected a Republican secretary of state, but she now serves in the Biden administration. And the region’s major cities are overwhelmingly blue. read more »
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Housing Affordability in California: Part 2 — Urban Land Markets
Harvard’s William Alonso showed that the value of residential land tends to increase from the rural uses on the urban fringe1 to centers of economic activity, such as central business districts.2 read more »
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