The Obvious Fix for California’s Housing Crisis - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

California progressives like to say, “Well, it’s going to be expensive to live in our lovely state. If you want affordable house payments, you can always move to Michigan or Alabama .” A middle-class California homebuyer needs to earn more than $70,000 a year just to pay for housing costs.

Austin , Texas , for instance, has high demand but slow-growth policies that constrain the construction of new housing.

A new study from the George W. Bush Institute examined the home-building policies in major metros across the U.S ..

The YIMBY crowd’s mantra is, “just build housing,” but too often its advocates are more interested in pushing the urbanist vision of high-density living interconnected by buses and rail lines.

The Legislature continues its war on “sprawl” even though the vast majority of Californians say they prefer to live in single-family homes.

We need looser regulations to ease the construction of any type of housing that the market demands.