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The other thing to remember is you generally expect population growth. Even if the decline isn't significant, it means theirs no growth. This is a good thing. California is a horrible horrible place for most working class people. You will never get ahead.
Paradise on Earth and home to the world’s brightest-future industry; California could easily grow to 100M residents if it simply allowed housing to be built to accommodate all the people who want to live here. And it would be a net win for the climate, because most of them would be coming from much less eco-friendly places.
Fire season is more like hell on earth than paradise, unfortunately.
Paradise on Earth and home to the world’s brightest-future industry; California could easily grow to 100M residents if it simply allowed housing to be built to accommodate all the people who want to live here. And it would be a net win for the climate, because most of them would be coming from much less eco-friendly places.
It turns out if you make homes unaffordable, people leave and look for a place where they can afford to live. Who knew?
Some things never change
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The state can invest billions of dollars into affordable housing, and simultaneously allow private developers to invest billions of their own dollars to meet demand from people at the top. Impeding the latter does nothing to help the former.
Where do the extra billions come from?
If we try to take money from income taxes, it won't work.
We need to stop transferring wealth to unproductive rentiers (landlords), and instead transfer it to labor which will produce what we need.
The reason this doesn't happen is that the rentiers control the zoning boards.
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Motive isn’t evidence. I haven’t seen any serious criticism of data collection methods. Just doubting results based on “stood to gain” is silly unless there’s actual evidence. In what world would there be a conspiracy to reduce california population by 200k?
Considering that is how congressional seats are apportioned, there is plenty of reason to fudge the numbers.