BUILDING TOO MANY HOUSES

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California Leads the Way

As most people know, when California does something (usually something stupid), other states rush to copy it.  No one cares to look at what happens after the idiocy is in play.  The states were designed to be laboratories of policy, so that if something worked well in one state, others would copy that state’s best practice.  It makes sense.  Unfortunately, too many politicians think that (A): they don’t need to wait to see the impact of the bad decision and (B):  despite much evidence, they still believe that California pols know what they’re doing.  They don’t.

Forced Housing Development

For a number of years, the state, (read Democrats), has assigned each city and region target housing quotas, saying that the need is great. At first glance, this seems sort of reasonable.  If you’ve ever flown up or down the state, there is a wealth of empty land.  But no, they want to cram more dense housing into already bursting-at-the-seams communities.  That’s not the real problem, though.

For many years, we’ve failed to build more water storage or seriously

considered desalinization, which would be so easy.  We know there’s a problem.  For years, they have tried to force us to use less, all while ignoring the blatant water hogs in Hollywood.  (They contribute so much money to the Dems that no one wants to piss them off).  We don’t have water for more housing or more people.  And we’ve accepted millions of illegals so we’re already doing more than our share to “house” people.  We also have the attractive nuisance of doing more for the homeless thus encouraging people to move here, expecting us to provide for them. 

We don’t have enough power.  Just like Biden, who probably has never watched his power usage, we are decommissioning nuclear and closing out any other possibilities.  However, we can’t build wind or solar big enough because the enviro-whackos, (the same ones who keep us from storing/saving/creating more water), refuse to let this happen.  They also keep our power companies from doing anything useful.  It’s so bad here that Newsom had to warn people to not charge their e-cars during a tough period.  It will only get worse.

And yet, we’re supposed to build more houses and welcome more people.  Why?

The Builder’s Remedy

The politicians have drafted a non-answer to the supposed “housing problem.”  It completely ignores the many listed problems, the terrible congestion on the roads and the fact that there will never be enough transit, roads or parking to satisfy even those already here.  It means an end to zoning, so that if you are lucky enough to have bought a nice, single-family house, you might find that you are now going to be squeezed between two huge high-rise apartment complexes.  And of course, they won’t build enough parking.  (The parking situation is constantly worsened as the CA pols okay projects where the parking is less than the number of units in the building, ignoring that many families/couples have two cars).

Southern California has already started implementing this.  Cities fear the consequences of not meeting the housing targets, which have doubled or even tripled over the past few years.   Worse yet, is that 20% must be affordable or very low income.  If you’ve worked for years to buy a house in a desirable community, does it seem reasonable to have the problems of poor areas dumped in your neighborhood?  I’m guessing that the rarified atmosphere of homes like Martha’s Vineyard (famous for welcoming, then shunning illegals) aren’t targeted, despite the fact that many of them have so much land, they could build 10 high rise apartments per lot on each of them.

Where does the Constitution say you must provide homes for anyone who wants them, wherever they want them?  It doesn’t.  There is no provision guaranteeing people homes where they like.  The over-generous welfare state of California has brought in too many low- or no-income people here, even as the number of entry-level jobs has dried up.  I also wonder how many of the wealthy communities are “doing their share.” 

Illegals and the homeless are not a housing crisis, per se.  The solution isn’t building more places that the taxpayers have to support.  Politicians need to see that these solutions don’t work and never have worked.  And start by trying something else, instead of pushing their failed agendas on us.

Vote smart.  And watch the polls.  There is way too much cheating going on, as the latest Maricopa County scandal amply reveals.

Does this look appealing?