California Isn’t Special
No one wants “California-style” housing prices. But the state’s policies are not unique.
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California is used to living rent free in all of our heads, and to ignoring anti-left barbs from right-wing politicians. Lately, though, pro-housing reformers have used California as an epithet to reference its utterly failed housing policy—and that’s much harder to shrug off. The typical California home; the average apartment rents for in San Francisco, and in Los Angeles.
