[jphelan]

I'm excited that you're thinking about solutions to the housing crisis :). Unfortunately, prop 13 is basically untouchable - though it is a root cause of misaligned incentives for homeowners. Walk down my street in Sunnyvale, and 4/5 people are elderly and can't really afford their home without prop 13.

Regional government is just what sb 828, which adds teeth to the state housing planning (and sort of sb 827, which sets zoning state wide), will do!

I don't think breaking up CA would solve our jurisdictional issues (E.G. Sunnyvale can't get BART if Palo Alto won't accept it, or Cupertino can't get VTA investment if San Jose controls it) or change the local home owner politics in the Bay Area.

I think it's pretty likely that we'll see 827 and 828 whittled down to nothing in the senate, but it doesn't mean we should give up. The tide is turning. Whether that happens fast enough to keep our cities viable depends on our participation.

[masonic]

  change the local home owner politics

Local home owners don't control local politics; the party apparatchiks do.

VTA wouldn't be so wasteful and screwed up if those "4/5 elderly" had any say in it the past 40 years.

[mc32]

I would be against zoning state-wide. I can go with regional, but not state-wide. That's overreach and unnecessary in most of the surface area of the state.