The debate over rent control has been predictable. On one side, lower-income activists (proponents) argue it’s the only counter to soaring, increasing, unaffordable rents. They
It had to happen. California is suffering through one of its worst housing crises and all the while the state legislature is doing nothing to
”The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) has been turned on its head, becoming a full employment act for lawyers and their client neighborhood groups. The
Recently, pundits have suggested – even here on these pages – that but for the absence state involvement, California wouldn’t be suffering its worst housing
Let me hear it again. What’s wrong with the suburbs? Nothing, says the latest report of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). While urban centers are
Leave it to government to convolute and stupefy something as simple as basic arithmetic. Yet, stupefying is how a reasonable person could describe a system
If you’re following the debate over new housing in California you were probably encouraged to see a recent report of McKinsey and Company which seeks
California elected officials proclaim a housing crisis is upon us. Like a plague of locusts, they say the problem was unforeseen and it deserves government’s
In response to California’s housing crisis, housing advocates are calling for price controls – specifically a cap on rents. It’s a popular reprise: “Blame it