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 pushing families to Idaho, Florida, and beyond at nearly three times the national rate. In San Francisco, the broken economics of affordable housing are playing out in real time: SFMTA just gutted 365 of 465 promised affordable units at Potrero Yard after admitting the funding never existed, while a Chinatown nonprofit controlling 29 LLCs and $163 million in assets faces scrutiny over undisclosed conflicts of interest. Across California, the gap between housing promises and housing reality keeps widening—and families are voting with their feet.
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.