CALIFORNIA POPULATION SWIFTLY OUTPACING ITS HOUSING SUPPLY.Byline: Jennifer Coleman Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. California's population in the 1990s has grown nearly 3-1/2 times as fast as the state's number of homes, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a U.S. Census Bureau Noun 1. Census Bureau - the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States Bureau of the Census report released Wednesday. The number of houses in California has increased 7.6 percent since 1990, adding 854,667 homes. During the same period - April 1, 1990 through July 1, 1998 - the state's population grew 10 percent, translating to 2.9 million more residents. ``For those who said there is no housing crisis in California, this has reaffirmed that there is a crisis that is putting California at risk of losing businesses and people,'' said state Sen. Richard Alarcon, D-Van Nuys, chairman of the Senate Housing and Community Development Committee. The crunch is worse in specific regions, namely San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , said Ted Gibson, the state's chief economist for the state Department of Finance. ``The housing numbers are growing very, very, very slowly,'' Gibson said. ``There are those of us who remember when California was building 250,000 houses a year.'' While the state's year-to-year increases in the number of houses of less than 1 percent look small, California is such a large state that those increases are actually substantial, said Mary Perry, a U.S. Census demographer. |
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