DAVIS, Calif. — A new report on the Davis Joint Unified School District’s future enrollment offers a warning the community cannot afford to ignore: absent meaningful changes, student numbers are projected to decline steadily over the next decade, while housing development could be one of the most significant local factors capable of slowing, stabilizing or even reversing those trends.
But if Davis is going to address enrollment decline honestly, we need to confront the problem at its root: the city’s failure to build enough housing over the last 25 years, driven in significant part by Measure J and the repeated rejection of projects that could have created the homes needed to attract and retain families.
That is the real issue…