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Knocking down low density housing and building high density seems very necessary.
But then there's the issue of real estate investors buying up many of those developed properties, and that doesn't help things either.
So there's a bunch of new housing far east of LA, in the "Inland Empire", and generally housing prices fall the farther away from the city you are. Add geological complexity (hills/mountains, rivers, etc), and LA, SF, Portland, Seattle have pretty much developed every acre of land available. +
But like, I can't say if that was a San Luis Obispo thing or a Cali thing. I think a large issue with home prices in places like LA is simply density/transportation. Everyone wants to live close to the city but there's only so much housing there.
But there's cheap housing in Bakersfield/Fresno. +
Interesting! I know I've seen big issues building housing here in California. When I moved to San Luis Obispo in 2016, I moved into a new development, and it was the first new one in the city in a decade. After we got there they've added thousands of new homes, though (though prices rose rapidly). +
I'd love to see a rigorous analysis of this too. I suspect it's true, but I'm reticent to push the statement without seeing someone show the work on it.
It's also unclear to me that insufficient housing is the problem - California's population declined, but housing got more expensive. Why?
Absolutely. Buttigieg wasn’t as bad, and I’ll give him a chance to do better (and he must), but Newsom has already shown that he will throw us (and unhoused people!) under the bus to get elected, and that is something he can’t undo. I’ll never be able to trust him.
This is important. And before anyone says “but Trump is worse”… In a primary, our choice isn’t “Trump vs Newsom”. It’s choosing which dem we want running against trump’s successor. And in that primary, we must reject Newsom.
His treatment of unhoused people is also awful (look it up).
You've also likely seen trans people terrified of a Newsom 2028 run.
I explain why trans people are not feeling Newsom.
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We have seen this song and dance before.
Another story that’s a nightmare. I mean that literally—ICE seems to construct bizarro realities that follow the “logic” of a bad dream. Nothing makes sense.
If the Trump administration cared about addressing crime, it would tell ICE agents to stop kidnapping and torturing people. But it's encouraging and rewarding them for doing so because it is a criminal enterprise. www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...
Federal authorities refused to tell the Canton woman's husband or lawyer on what grounds she was being detained until shortly before her release.
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