Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is touting a new Stockton housing development as an example of how excess state-owned land can become affordable living units.
Several state officials attended a groundbreaking Thursday on the project slated to become a 94-unit community called La Passeggiata at 622 E. Lindsey St. in Stockton. The development is made possible by the donation of land by the state that it otherwise had no plans to use.
La Passeggiata will become one of nearly 50 projects around California that also are being built on land donated by the state to increase low-income housing…