Housing
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The latest victim of SF’s homeless crisis? Luxury shopping!
San Francisco’s homeless crisis may soon have a new victim – luxury shopping in the City. The City by the Bay has long been known as home to the world’s best shopping. It was home to now-defunct high-end retailers like I. Magnin, and the Joseph Magnin, Co. started by one ...
Tim Anaya
July 10, 2019
California
Welcome to California
Building homes in California requires a significant investment of time, money, and other resources, leading many developers to avoid construction projects. But in northwest Los Angeles County, one builder has stayed the course since 1994. On completion in 2021, the 15,000-acre Newhall Ranch—billed as one of the world’s first large-scale ...
Kerry Jackson
July 8, 2019
California
Kerry Jackson Responds to President Trump’s Take on CA Homeless Crisis in Daily Signal
‘This Is the Liberal Establishment’: As Homelessness Rises in Major Cities, Trump Speaks Out By Fred Lucas President Donald Trump says he is working on a plan to address a spike in homelessness in the United States, particularly in several California cities. During a Fox News Channel interview that aired ...
Pacific Research Institute
July 2, 2019
Blog
The Moves (Out of California) Just Keep on Coming
Many California legislators seem to believe in open borders — not just the border to Mexico but also the borders to Arizona, Nevada, and Oregon. Businesses are slipping out of state through those boundaries at an alarming rate because of the difficult conditions lawmakers have forced on them. And it ...
Kerry Jackson
July 2, 2019
California
If Newsom Is Right, California’s Rot Is Coming To The Rest Of America
California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom predicted this week that the Republican Party will “will go into the waste bin of society.” It was an interesting comment, coming only a couple of weeks after his party’s presidential candidates appeared at California’s Democratic Party convention. That convention showed why California is moving in a ...
Kerry Jackson
June 21, 2019
Blog
CAPITAL IDEAS: Lease-Purchase Model May Provide Solution for Home Affordability Problem
READ THE PDF For a large majority of Americans, their home is their most valuable asset, while also serving as a major portion of their retirement portfolio. For others, owning their home provides a source of stability and community for themselves and their children, granting freedom from worry about rising ...
Damon Dunn
June 20, 2019
California
NEW STUDY: Free-Market Reforms, Private Charities Key to Addressing San Francisco’s Growing Homeless Crisis
A new brief on San Francisco’s homeless crisis published today by the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute concludes that the city could make great strides in reducing homelessness by encouraging and supporting private sector involvement, while making policy changes that will invite a homebuilding boom. The brief includes more than a ...
Pacific Research Institute
June 19, 2019
Blog
Voters Give Legislature Low Marks for Failing to Act on Housing, Homelessness
Last week, the non-partisan Public Policy Institute of California released their latest survey of Californians stand on a host of issues. Writing about the poll results, veteran Los Angeles Times political columnist George Skelton summed up the survey’s shock findings with a banner headline – “California’s Legislature is less popular ...
Tim Anaya
June 11, 2019
Agriculture
Try the Free Market Before Tourists Are One Day Warned to Not Drink the Water in California
California has regressed from the land of opportunity to the land of crisis. A chronic housing shortage, growing homelessness problems, the highest poverty rate in the nation, and runaway public employee pension liability are ripping at the seams of the state. Add to that list of troubles the taint of ...
Kerry Jackson
May 30, 2019
Book
New Book Explores Why Many Californians Are Living in Fear, Outlines Reforms to Restore Safe Communities
Well-meaning policy changes are undermining safe communities in California and must be reformed to restore public safety throughout the state, writes Pacific Research Institute fellow Kerry Jackson in his new book on crime in California, Living in Fear in California. Living in Fear in California can be purchased at Amazon.com, Barnes ...
Kerry Jackson
May 29, 2019
The latest victim of SF’s homeless crisis? Luxury shopping!
San Francisco’s homeless crisis may soon have a new victim – luxury shopping in the City. The City by the Bay has long been known as home to the world’s best shopping. It was home to now-defunct high-end retailers like I. Magnin, and the Joseph Magnin, Co. started by one ...
Welcome to California
Building homes in California requires a significant investment of time, money, and other resources, leading many developers to avoid construction projects. But in northwest Los Angeles County, one builder has stayed the course since 1994. On completion in 2021, the 15,000-acre Newhall Ranch—billed as one of the world’s first large-scale ...
Kerry Jackson Responds to President Trump’s Take on CA Homeless Crisis in Daily Signal
‘This Is the Liberal Establishment’: As Homelessness Rises in Major Cities, Trump Speaks Out By Fred Lucas President Donald Trump says he is working on a plan to address a spike in homelessness in the United States, particularly in several California cities. During a Fox News Channel interview that aired ...
The Moves (Out of California) Just Keep on Coming
Many California legislators seem to believe in open borders — not just the border to Mexico but also the borders to Arizona, Nevada, and Oregon. Businesses are slipping out of state through those boundaries at an alarming rate because of the difficult conditions lawmakers have forced on them. And it ...
If Newsom Is Right, California’s Rot Is Coming To The Rest Of America
California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom predicted this week that the Republican Party will “will go into the waste bin of society.” It was an interesting comment, coming only a couple of weeks after his party’s presidential candidates appeared at California’s Democratic Party convention. That convention showed why California is moving in a ...
CAPITAL IDEAS: Lease-Purchase Model May Provide Solution for Home Affordability Problem
READ THE PDF For a large majority of Americans, their home is their most valuable asset, while also serving as a major portion of their retirement portfolio. For others, owning their home provides a source of stability and community for themselves and their children, granting freedom from worry about rising ...
NEW STUDY: Free-Market Reforms, Private Charities Key to Addressing San Francisco’s Growing Homeless Crisis
A new brief on San Francisco’s homeless crisis published today by the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute concludes that the city could make great strides in reducing homelessness by encouraging and supporting private sector involvement, while making policy changes that will invite a homebuilding boom. The brief includes more than a ...
Voters Give Legislature Low Marks for Failing to Act on Housing, Homelessness
Last week, the non-partisan Public Policy Institute of California released their latest survey of Californians stand on a host of issues. Writing about the poll results, veteran Los Angeles Times political columnist George Skelton summed up the survey’s shock findings with a banner headline – “California’s Legislature is less popular ...
Try the Free Market Before Tourists Are One Day Warned to Not Drink the Water in California
California has regressed from the land of opportunity to the land of crisis. A chronic housing shortage, growing homelessness problems, the highest poverty rate in the nation, and runaway public employee pension liability are ripping at the seams of the state. Add to that list of troubles the taint of ...
New Book Explores Why Many Californians Are Living in Fear, Outlines Reforms to Restore Safe Communities
Well-meaning policy changes are undermining safe communities in California and must be reformed to restore public safety throughout the state, writes Pacific Research Institute fellow Kerry Jackson in his new book on crime in California, Living in Fear in California. Living in Fear in California can be purchased at Amazon.com, Barnes ...