California is projected to lose nearly one million public school students by 2031—a 15.7% enrollment collapse driven by soaring housing costs that's three times the national average. In San Francisco, the dysfunction is on full display: SFMTA just gutted 365 of 465 promised affordable units from a major transit project after admitting the funding was never actually secured, while a Chinatown housing nonprofit with 29 LLCs and $163 million in assets faces scrutiny over undisclosed financial conflicts. The through-line is a state where housing policy failures are accelerating population flight, and the institutions claiming to solve the problem keep making it worse.
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.