California Housing

We have all heard about the California housing problem.  Yes, it's expensive to live here.  Yes, it's also very beautiful here.  Yes, it's a desirable place to live.  We are no different than Hawaii and other places where real estate prices are through the roof (no pun intended).

The answer????  Stop producing more and more people.  That's a start.  Stop being a dumb fuck and I mean that in the most literal sense.  More people equals more housing.  People require a place to live. Also, nobody can escape the law of supply and demand.  Politicians and other do-gooders think they have the answers, but they don't.

For every buyer there is a seller.  Don't ever forget that.  Maybe we don't have a housing shortage, but rather a greed problem.  Tell me of a cocktail party you have been at where somebody was bragging they sold their house to the lowest offer.  Silence.  I thought so.

Everybody nowadays buys their home with the aspirations of rapid appreciation.  Each residential purchase is a temporary, transitional stepping stone until the colossal, pretensious mansion on top of the hill is acquired.  Homes are not where families celebrate lives together anymore.  Homes are no longer the center of traditions.  Gone are the pencil marks on the walls tracking growth of children.  Gone are the family cemeteries.  Homes used to have souls - and that also created neighborhoods when people actually conversed with each other in the evenings out front as the sun set.  There was a human connection that tied us all together.  We actually spoke with each other and watched out for each other.

I'm getting off track.  When you hear people whine about affordable housing, ask them if they would support a price/equity limit on sellers - kind of like rent control.

I hear the uproar already.  Everybody wants to make the most profit from their homes or land when selling.  Welcome to capitalism.  You can't have it both ways, people.