California’s affordable housing problem is really a national one
I feel like I got served an appetizer and a small dessert, with no main course in between.<p>California has a housing crisis in some cities. Californians are moving out of those cities. The cities that they&#x27;re moving into are experiencing an increase in demand (directly restating the previous). That&#x27;s pushing up prices (not shocking), which is preventing some people with less money from outbidding people with more money (also not shocking).<p>Conclusion: Single Family Zoning is bad, but only a few places have been enlightened enough to limit or ban it.<p>OK, maybe, but strikes me as an argument from declaration of opinion rather than a logical conclusion from the priors.<p>The only thing new I learned from this article is a rough estimate of how much higher an ex-Californian&#x27;s budget is on average, which was novel but hardly surprising.