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The California Governor's Debate included a question on the subject of affordable housing, and the causes and answers to the high home costs. Interestingly, every answer addressed only the cost of new home construction.
Conspicuously absent was any answer addressing the costs of living for either homeowners or renters in their already-existing, often longstanding homes. The true concern that most people have is not with new home construction, but the costs of living in their present homes now. This is the true affordability problem. While the candidates readily discussed their ideas about building new homes or how to make them less expensive, not one thought or concern was raised regarding the process of rebuilding the thousands of already existing homes that were destroyed in the California fires last year. These are homes and families that are waiting and truly needing to rebuild, and who are being delayed needlessly by the known Communist, Karen Bass. The complete lack of interest, ...