Cities across Orange County are failing to build enough housing for low-income residents, with roughly 4,400 housing units classified as affordable – about 17% of the overall 25,000 new homes built over the past five years, far behind what state mandates call for.
In Orange County, a four-person household making less than $135,350 annually is considered low income.
County officials also announced a temporary pause on using chemical weedkillers in creek beds after a host of South OC residents began ringing alarm bells about herbicide use in San Juan Creek and Oso Creek…