California is on track to lose nearly a million public school students by 2031—the worst enrollment collapse of any major state—as housing costs drive families to Idaho, Florida, and beyond. In San Francisco, the dysfunction is playing out in real time: SFMTA just gutted 365 promised affordable units from a flagship transit project, admitting the funding was never secured, while a Chinatown nonprofit controlling 29 LLCs and $163 million in assets faces scrutiny over undisclosed conflicts and ballot harvesting. The debate over how to fix it is fracturing the left, with progressive mayors pushing rent freezes alongside new construction—a combination developers and economists say is mathematically incoherent.
California's most powerful environmental justice group thinks your right to own a home is a colonial relic. They're killing housing to prove it.
Austin built apartments and rents dropped 15%. Pro-housing politicians need to stop apologizing for market-rate housing.