Posted on 04/20/2018 7:18:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
California’s housing market faces challenges that have been building for decades. The median home price in the state has increased at several times the rate of median home prices across the country, leading to lower-income Californians fleeing the state in droves. One analysis estimated that housing problems cost California $140 billion annually in lost economic output. Faced with a means of addressing this issue, these activists pressured California legislators into killing reform legislation in its first committee hearing.
California suffers from a severe housing shortage, as the state ranks 49th in housing density. Local governments have failed to allow sufficient home-building, and zoning requirements often prevent high-rise apartments in expensive cities with large populations like San Francisco and Los Angeles. San Francisco in particular has been hard-hit by a lack of housing — one report found that residents need to make more than $300,000 a year just to afford the median home in the city.
Fortunately, some California legislators recognized the severity of the crisis and took action to address the root cause. SB 827, introduced by State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), aimed to limit local governments’ abilities to restrict housing. Under SB 827, developers across the state would have been able to ignore local zoning rules on height, density, and parking near transit hubs. Doing so would have allowed the supply of housing to increase while simultaneously encouraging methods of transportation that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and traffic congestion.
The introduction of legislation that eliminates burdensome regulation while making housing more available to low-income Californians and addressing climate change seems like a positive development regardless of one’s political persuasion. Unfortunately, while data wonks from the typical free-market crowd to the more left-leaning like Matt Yglesias
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Liberals: “We love the n****rs, but not in our neighborhood.”
They wonder why there are homeless encampments throughout the state, but they fling the door right open for all of the third world to enter. All the while preventing housing from being built.
Remember folks, these are our “betters.” This is the smart crowd.
But they have zero issues permanently destroying thousands of square miles of land with endless seas of windmill and solar arrays killing untold birds, and bats, and tortoises, and destroying the environment for untold plants and critters as entire valley floors are now covered in solar all through the imperial valley, the sonoran deser, and the mojave desert, and windmills scar entire mountain sides from the southern sierras to the entire coastal range.
“developers across the state would have been able to ignore local zoning rules on height, density, and parking near transit hubs:
in other words, instant ghettos, but with unlimited traffic and parking problems. anyone who owned and lived in existing housing near these proposed nuevo ghettos would be completely screwed, both financially and quality of life ...
Don’t feed the feral cats-—they only keep coming
Exactly.
They want the peasants to live in little box apartments in giant buildings all clustered together.
While they live on country estates.
I always say it’s not NIMBY but BANANA
BUILD ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ANYWHERE NEAR ANYBODY
91 percent of my county Marin is parks or open space
And it’s going up
Homeless types are four categories
1- mental cases
2- kids who like being on street ( hippie types )
3- decent folks down on luck or in between jobs
4- older folks with no family to help
The weather here is never cold. Never hot.
It doesn’t rain from now until November. 0% chance
And the urban areas are run. By far left nuts who have not a clue the four types or how to help each
Oh and a studio apt is like 2500$ in SF OR LA
The NIMBY zoning restrictions that are the cause of the problem are nationwide. The Democrats respond by trying to shift the blame to capitalism and landlords and by trying to force developers to fund below market rent housing.
Totally not true. Not sure why any conservative would think far off corrupt lawmakers in Sacramento are acting in anyone’s best interest when they try to override laws made by small towns to protect themselves. NIMBYs didn’t create all the illegal immigration, but zoning can help keep local communities safe, clean, with less traffic, and better schools.
I saw an article yesterday about a house that had been condemned. The picture was of a derelict, one-story wreck. I think it was in Fremont, CA. What made it newsworthy was the price the hovel sold for. One point three million dollars.
I’m all for development, but where’s CA gonna get the water?
It’s all about the dirt
Dirt here is REAL expensive
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