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California Housing Crisis Causes Interesting Prediction
The San Diego Union-Tribune Reports On How The Cost Of Living In California May Drive People To Live In Their Cars, Trucks, Vans, Campers Or Recreational Vehicles.
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What are your most expensive bills? Housing is likely to be an answer that ranks high for that question. Most of us have seen the real estate market fluctuate throughout the ears, but it gets ridiculous sometimes. The cost of housing is so outrageous in Cali-fornia that stories that might once have seemed preposterous now seem completely unsurprising. For example, picture a scene straight out of a dystopian movie about a ravaged future Earth.. then realize that today, there are homeless people set up an encampment at a toxic Superfund industrial site in Oxnard, saying they had nowhere else to go! This mess isn’t going to be solved by building affordable housing — at least as long as it’s of the expensive sort traditionally seen in California. Nor is it going to be solved by offering slight regulatory relief such as the state Legislature recently enacted to encourage housing construction.
Chris Reed of the Union-Tribune relays in his article: "When iPhones came out a decade ago, it didn’t take long for companies to figure out there were billions to be made off iPhone accessories. When conventional politics completely fails to address a giant problem, an unconventional response is certainly possible. And when a group that’s disproportionately hurt by California’s housing crisis — millennials — already have a reputation for being less materialistic and less conformist, why wouldn’t they look for alternative housing?" Jessica Bruder, author of a new book called “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century,” says employed people living in their vehicles have become more prevalent in the U.S. since the Great Recession. In addition, as the San Jose Mercury News reported earlier in December of 2017: "From Oakland to San Jose, officials are struggling to cope with a growing influx of RV dwellers seeking a safe, permanent place for the only homes they can afford...Motor home, or RV, communities have popped up everywhere ... from abandoned department store parking lots in Oakland to the streets around high-tech campuses in Silicon Valley." Not many state residents could have conceived of such an epic failing on housing by California’s political class — one that the media also largely missed until 2012. That’s when the Census Bureau began issuing a report that measured poverty including cost of living, and found that Californi had the highest percentage of impoverished residents.
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