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Has Laguna Beach Housing Affordability Become a Distant Dream?

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The lack of affordable housing in Laguna Beach and beyond has reached a tipping point, creating a groundswell of interest in finding solutions. That was the good news at Monday’s public workshop, “Affordable Housing – A Home, A Heart,” at Neighborhood Congregational Church that drew about 40 attendees…

 In California, it is $15 – still far from enough to afford the average asking rent in Orange County of $2,596 per month. Alarmingly, renters need to earn 3.3 times the minimum wage, or $49.92 per hour, to afford this average, according to the California Housing Partnership Orange County’s 2022 Affordable Housing Need Report.