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She said that as material costs rise, the cost of new housing development will increase, too, which could in turn prompt developers to rethink low-margin affordable housing projects.

In July, Newsom signed into law a rollback of a stringent environmental statute that opponents of new development have used in recent decades to tie up proposed housing projects in litigation, often for years.

These are housing projects intended to help people with histories of substance abuse stay clean.

In a new book, “The Projects: A New History of Public Housing,” Mr. Husock explains that while we no longer build housing projects, the ones that remain continue to thwart the socioeconomic progress of residents.

In July, the governor’s office and the California Department of Housing and Community Development announced the state was providing $101 million to fund affordable multifamily rental housing projects that were ready to start building immediately.