The coastal counties also have no obligation to keep housing prices artificially inflated, especially when most of those beneficiaries aren’t paying enough in taxes to support the infrastructure and other costs to keep everything going, thanks to Prop 13.
No matter the tax situation, the counties/cities have no obligation to do anything but what’s best for the cities and counties.
Trust me, as a native Californian (Angelino), I’ve seen all the overbuilding, and lamented the fact that they’ve taken away all of our old hiking grounds and make-out spots, but the cities and counties don’t owe us that; that is not their job.
We will always need more housing for the additional people who are constantly moving here. If people don’t like the density, they can move to flyover country where they can buy a farm and live far away from other people, if that’s what they really prefer. It goes both ways.
