TLDR: Cities are allowing developers to re-zone retail units that go un-leased. They can then be converted into live-work studios so people can run businesses from home ie. an artist running a home studio, a massage therapist taking clients, a home daycare, etc. Seems this could really help with California’s chronic housing crisis.

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This feels like a step in the right direction, but many more changes are needed to turn housing around--primarily the fact that real-estate is more valuable as an investment than a home.

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