[Azzurri]

"It's not a sign of this state becoming the next Detroit, but if it is, in fact, a sign of the difficulty of buying a house in California, or congestion -- as we've heard -- then we should be concerned," said Hans Johnson, a demographer with the nonprofit Public Policy Institute of California.

The little educator from Berkeley just HAD to take a cheap shot at Detroit. Hey, we're in bad shape but we're not as bad as Detroit! What a jerk.

[amchugh]

I had a friend with an MA in urban planning from University of Illinois (I think). He said that Detroit was pretty much used as the example for what not to do in most of his classes. To be fair, planning for explosive growth is always difficult.