We all can agree there is a housing shortage, but do we really need more $4,000 a month apartments? That is mostly what’s being built.
So many people are confounded by the homeless crisis—its cause and the cure. However, it is as plain as the nose on their face. The rent is too damn high.
Big Real Estate has spent hundreds of millions of dollars obscuring the root cause of California’s housing crisis.
Mentally ill people live everywhere, but only in California are so many living on the streets. What’s the difference? California rent is too damn high.
People who abuse drugs are everywhere, but so many more of them are homeless in California because the rent is too damn high.
In California, the take-home pay of a full-time minimum wage worker is less than the cost of your average decent apartment.
We all can agree there is a housing shortage, but do we really need more $4,000 a month apartments? That is mostly what’s being built.