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One Bay Area Neighborhood’s Fight For Historic Status Has Controversial Motivations

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California is facing a major housing shortage. The state has a goal to build two and a half million new homes over the next five years. That’s creating anxiety for some wealthy neighborhoods in particular that are trying to preserve their so-called local character. The state has been seeing a rise in the number of applications from these kinds of neighborhoods requesting historic status - and that would make it hard to pursue renovations and meet state housing requirements. One neighborhood in the Peninsula … called Baywood… has been in a deadlocked battle over this issue for years now. KQED’s Katie DeBenedetti looked into this.

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