For the first time since the Gold Rush in 1849, the Beholden State lost population in the latter half of 2019.
As a result, not due to a housing construction boom or a reform in the development approval process, but rather to population growth slowing to a standstill, California added more housing units than people for the first time in its recent history.
When the electricity is on and the smoke clears from the fires, California can be a great place to live, if you're rich.
Its political boosters like to claim that the state’s high housing costs are a form of a “good weather tax” as people from all over the world desire to live in California. That is part of the equation.
But it’s also true that restrictions on development, fees, taxes, and environmental lawsuits result in significant delays in housing construction and can add more than 30% to the cost of housing in California.
This is seen in the Census Bureau’s metro area cost-of-living table that accompanies the poverty reports.
Based on median rents, California’s metro areas range from 2.13 in San Jose—meaning about double nationwide averages for a modest apartment—to 0.86 in the Hanford-Corcoran metro in California’s Central Valley agricultural region.
The Los Angeles-Long Beach metro, California’s most populous, has a median rent index of 1.56.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2020/09/17/report-shows-big-declines-in-poverty-in-2019-but-california-leads-the-nation--in-poverty--with-austin-texas-trying-hard-to-catch-up/#7ba6c8dc7897
Number prove it (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/s...ty/firearm.htm), and if guns weren't imported from gun free States the numbers would be even lower
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