Since my arrival in California, the population has doubled twice. There is no limit to the number of people who would like to live here. Open borders and policies to pay illegal and legal immigrants to come here provide unnecessary incentives. The Democratic Party is just in a hurry to enhance vote fraud.
Many of the people who presently live in California recognize that environmental values and quality of life decline as population density increases. That may be providing some friction against legislature bills that would remove local control from zoning to increase housing density where we live.

Raymond, you came here 70 years ago? The rest of your post make so much more sense in that context.

Yeah, let's make sure only millionaires can afford to live here, then we won't have any voter fraud. Or much of anything else, for that matter.

The bills are not about affordable housing for the most part. They deserve to be held up for that reason alone. They are about being pork barrel rewards to the construction industry and developers. So you can see why the labor unions want a taste too. Separate out what is really an affordable housing bill and most of these bills fall by the wayside. That's okay with me. We don't need to pander to profiteers who want to make money off of an alleged housing shortage when you consider how much market rate housing is being built with no law changes at all.

Say we realize that current strawman targets envision way less than half, maybe just 25% of new construction be affordable housing. Then you can tell the labor unions to simply rely on everything else. No need to weigh down affordable units with labor requirements of any sort. That would be a good change to state law.

I do think it's very telling that the package of bills would be characterized as being about affordable housing. All the new construction yields housing which is inherently more expensive than what already exists. It's NEW, so it is priced higher.

I'll point out for the curious: doubling twice over 70 years is a whopping....2% growth per year.