California’s housing crisis: how a bureaucrat pushed to build
I completely agree with the sentiment to build more, much more housing.  But, in order to make that happen, we also need to:<p>- get rid of or modify zoning laws (at least in places where growth will happen)<p>- reduce regulations on builders<p>- ensure that there are plenty of builders for health competition (so that consumers don&#x27;t get ripped off)<p>- provide protections for builders from Sue happy NIMBYs  (some kind of legal protection that prevents builders from being sued and penalizes NIMBYs that try to stand in their way).<p>The benefits of building more are so numerous:<p>- every house that gets built reduces costs for everyone else as well, as the stress of under supply lessens<p>- it&#x27;s easier for people to get to work and find work<p>- easier for companies to higher people<p>- more jobs getting created, not just from people able to get to work but new jobs getting created from all that construction<p>- It&#x27;ll help the environment immensly!  Everyday, I see the 580 - 5 lane highway clogged up with cars crawling by at 10mpg, probably getting very low MPG over a very long distance (this is where most of the CO2 pollution is coming from, at least in the US!)<p>- over the long term even people with houses already will pay lower property taxes (decreasing values reduce prop taxes)<p>- as the number of average miles driven per commute comes down, there will be less and less traffic.