Comments on: Oakland housing crisis: Plenty of blame to go around https://calwatchdog.com/2017/01/23/oakland-housing-crisis-plenty-blame-go-around/ Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:39:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: Spurwing Plover https://calwatchdog.com/2017/01/23/oakland-housing-crisis-plenty-blame-go-around/#comment-125008 Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:39:11 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=92804#comment-125008 always leave it to the liberals to open the borders without consitering where to house them all

]]> By: Richard Rider https://calwatchdog.com/2017/01/23/oakland-housing-crisis-plenty-blame-go-around/#comment-124742 Tue, 24 Jan 2017 00:02:42 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=92804#comment-124742 When it comes to housing prices, it’s really quite simple: When government restricts housing supply (via zoning and expensive regulation) plus tacks on big costs to any housing built, an inadequate amount of housing is constructed. Consider:

The vaunted post-recession “housing building boom” in California is fizzling out. Here’s a sobering graphic.

http://www.aei.org/publication/monday-afternoon-linkage-4/

More permits for single-family homes have been issued in Houston than in the entire state of California both:
a) 2016 through March (9,184 in Houston vs. 9,081 in California)
and
b) from 2011 through March 2015 (133,462 vs. 132,915).

Related: The one-way rental rate for a 26-foot U-Haul truck from Los Angeles, CA to Houston, TX in mid-May is $2,371, which is about 3 times the $806 rental rate going in the opposite direction from Houston to LA.

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