In this episode of News Too Real, producer host, Julia Dudley Najieb reviews part 2 from Ethnic Media Services (EMS) briefing this month: California housing crisis continues as Gov. Newsom signs several bills this month to begin to combat the calamity

Speakers featured in the EMS briefing took a look at the implications of COVID-19 on housing equality and community development, how opportunity and restrictive zoning laws are closely connected, and policies and legislation to increase affordable housing stock.
This episode featured experts Ned Resnikoff, policy manager for the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative at University of California San Francisco, and Matthew Lewis, Communications Director at California Yimby, is a YIMBY homeowner who believes there’s plenty of room on his block for more neighbors.