California is projected to lose nearly one million public school students by 2031—a 15.7% collapse driven by an affordability crisis that's pushing families to Idaho, Florida, and Texas. In San Francisco, the dysfunction is on full display: SFMTA quietly gutted 365 of 465 promised affordable units from a major transit project after admitting the funding was never real, while a Chinatown housing nonprofit sits on $163 million in assets and 29 LLCs with questions mounting about financial disclosure. Across the state, a growing debate is exposing the tension between progressive housing politics and basic economics—with developers, reformers, and departing families all reaching the same conclusion.
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.