Today, California is more Petaluma than Lakewood. In the 1950s and 1960s, California routinely built more than 200,000 homes each year.38 Since 2007, California has never once permitted more than 150,000 new homes.39 “In Los Angeles, fewer homes were built in the seventies than in the sixties, fewer in the eighties than in the seventies, and fewer

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Legalizing Dense Development is the Single Most Effective Solution to the Housing Crisis

We Now Have Clear Proof that Building Dramatically Really Does Lower Rents, and it Works Quickly

California’s Impending Tax Apocalypse Last week, Governor Newsom and state legislators agreed to a balanced budget for California’s upcoming fiscal year, closing the multibillion-dollar deficit that has hung over the state for months. Despite eliminating thousands of vacant government jobs, and making deep cuts to... See more