California costs too much. At the very root of our affordability crisis is the high cost of housing. High rents and expensive homes are driving families and high-wage jobs out of California. Our housing crisis makes it harder to hire teachers, child care workers and law enforcement officers; and it is closely linked to our crisis of street homelessness.
My parents, a letter carrier and a teacher, would be unable to afford today the modest house in which my sisters and I were raised.
The generations of their children and grandchildren are being denied the same opportunities they enjoyed. And this is the original sin of California politics — taking away the dream of home ownership. It’s time to fix this: Because if we get the most basic need for affordable housing right, we will get California back on track…