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Tales of California Housing
 Slideshow of photos
In Silicon Valley's Past, A Vision of the Central Valley's Future
Fri, Sep 16, 2006 - 4:30p, 6:30 and 11pm
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It's no secret that California is one of the most expensive places to live.
Some families are coping with real estate sticker shock by moving to the
Central Valley, making a very long commute to jobs in places like Silicon
Valley. In the first part of a series on housing, reporters Sasha Khokha
in Merced County and Peter Jon Shuler in Santa Clara County examine how the
history of one valley may be the future of another.
Paving Over the Orchards
Fri, Sep 23, 2006 - 4:30p, 6:30 and 11pm
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California's Central Valley is now the fastest growing region of the state.
Over the next 25 years, it will take more than a million new housing units
to accommodate the population growth in the state's agricultural heartland.
Reporters Sasha Khokha in Merced County and Peter Jon Shuler in San Jose
examine how housing threatens to transform the Central Valley in much the
same way that Silicon Valley's orchards were paved over years ago.
Lessons in Development's Side Effects
Fri, Sep 30, 2006 - 4:30p, 6:30 and 11pm
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When Silicon Valley began to grow up among the orchards of the Santa Clara
Valley in the 1960s, people flocked to the brand new, large residential
tracts linked by strip malls. But it wasn't long before Silicon Valley
began seeing the side effects of what we now call sprawl: traffic, air
pollution and overcrowded schools. Over the next 25 years, nearly 4 million
people are expected to move into another valley -- the Central Valley. What
can be learned from the unbridled development boom that created Silicon Valley?
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