California's Department of Education (DOE) is launching a statewide plan to develop millions of new housing units on land owned by the state's school districts.

Tony Thurmond, the state's superintendent of public education, announced the new plan this week at the department's headquarters in Sacramento, SiliconValley.com reported.

According to the state DOE, California School districts own 75,000 acres of developable land, which is enough to create an estimated 2.3M new housing units.

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