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Re:340k people moved out of CA in 2022, most of any state by mensetmanusman on Saturday December 24, 2022 @02:02PM (#34119967)
The CA government has a budget the size of Finland’s GDP ($250B), if they wanted to fix the housing issue, they could.

But not enough people do want it fixed because they are trapped with their real estate investment which they can’t adored to have decrease in value.

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Re:340k people moved out of CA in 2022, most of any state by dmix on Saturday December 24, 2022 @10:12PM (#34123812)
The housing problem isn't a money problem, it's almost entirely laws/policy issues.

There's already a mountain of private capital ready and consumer demand that the moment laws let them build they will, regardless of gov $ investment.

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Re:340k people moved out of CA in 2022, most of any state by danny_codes on Sunday December 25, 2022 @04:04AM (#34125565)
100%. Land use policy in CA (and the US more generally) is insane. Suburbia/car-dependency is a terrifically bad policy decision that CA _heavily_ bought into. We may need to wait for the boomers to die out a bit more before we can fix it.
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Re:340k people moved out of CA in 2022, most of any state by 10x_contrarian on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @05:51AM (#34147527)
San Francisco's budget for homelessness is over 500 million per year. If that isn't enough money to address the problem in one city we clearly need radically different solutions.
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