Housing
Business & Economics
New PRI Issue Brief Finds Government Policies Have Strangled State’s Housing Market, Made Housing Unaffordable
Big government policies and political constraints are the primary causes for rising California home prices and lack of supply, according to the findings of a new “California Ideas in Action” issue brief released today by the non-partisan Pacific Research Institute. Reforms to open California’s housing market are recommended as the ...
Business & Economics
Prevailing Wage Would Make California’s Housing Crisis Worse
California has a grim housing problem and nearly everyone in the state, whether they have tried to buy or rent a home or not, is aware of it. Apparently, though, some in Sacramento haven’t noticed and hope to mix in more of the poison that created the crisis in the ...
California
CAPITAL IDEAS: Will Largest Gas Tax Increase In State History Bring Traffic Relief?
Download the Brief It’s painfully obvious that lawmakers in Sacramento just can’t help themselves. Otherwise Gov. Jerry Brown and a majority of legislators wouldn’t support a $52 billion tax hike to fix California’s gouged, pitted and cracked roads. They would find a way to do it with the resources they ...
California
Panel Discussion on California’s Housing Crisis
Watch PRI’s panel discussion on California’s housing crisis, held at the State Capitol in Sacramento. Moderated by PRI’s Kerry Jackson, speakers included California Department of Housing and Community Development Ben Metcalf, longtime lobbyist for the California building industry and housing policy expert Tim Coyle of Coyle Consulting, and YLC Member ...
Business & Economics
Misguided State Policies Lead To More Companies Leaving California
This spring marks the first anniversary of the announcement that Carl’s Jr., a California burger icon for more than six decades, was relocating its headquarters to Nashville. It’s yet another business that has quit California in what was once an almost quiet exodus of companies but now looks more like ...
California
San Francisco’s Universal Health Care Plan Eyed As Model For California
SAN FRANCISCO — Maria Consuelo believes she’s alive today because of a groundbreaking program this left-leaning city created a decade ago – one that guarantees health coverage to every one of its 864,000 residents. It’s made San Francisco the only place in the country where truly universal health coverage exists, ...
Blog
Will Largest Gas Tax Increase In State History Bring Traffic Relief?
It’s painfully obvious that lawmakers in Sacramento just can’t help themselves. Otherwise Gov. Jerry Brown and a majority of legislators wouldn’t support a $52 billion tax hike to fix Califor- nia’s gouged, pitted and cracked roads. They would find a way to do it with the resources they have. Republicans ...
California
Join PRI For A Panel Discussion On California’s Housing Crisis On April 11
Join PRI for a “California Ideas in Action” Panel Discussion Unaffordable: How Government Policy Has Shaped California’s Housing Crisis and What Can Be Done to Fix It Tuesday, April 11 10:30 am California State Capitol, Room 126 Sacramento Please RSVP to Tim Anaya at [email protected] Click here for a flyer ...
Business & Economics
CAPITAL IDEAS: Rent Control Would Put Housing Out of Reach for More Californians
Download the Brief Click here to watch PRI’s panel discussion on California’s housing crisis from the State Capitol in Sacramento. The most unaffordable city in the world in which to rent a home is not New York or Tokyo or Hong Kong. The title belongs to San Francisco, where a ...
Blog
Rent Control Would Put Housing Out of Reach for More Californians
The most unaffordable city in the world in which to rent a home is not New York or Tokyo or Hong Kong. The title belongs to San Francisco, where a single person who wants to live on their own needs to earn more than $85,000 a year to pay the ...
New PRI Issue Brief Finds Government Policies Have Strangled State’s Housing Market, Made Housing Unaffordable
Big government policies and political constraints are the primary causes for rising California home prices and lack of supply, according to the findings of a new “California Ideas in Action” issue brief released today by the non-partisan Pacific Research Institute. Reforms to open California’s housing market are recommended as the ...
Prevailing Wage Would Make California’s Housing Crisis Worse
California has a grim housing problem and nearly everyone in the state, whether they have tried to buy or rent a home or not, is aware of it. Apparently, though, some in Sacramento haven’t noticed and hope to mix in more of the poison that created the crisis in the ...
CAPITAL IDEAS: Will Largest Gas Tax Increase In State History Bring Traffic Relief?
Download the Brief It’s painfully obvious that lawmakers in Sacramento just can’t help themselves. Otherwise Gov. Jerry Brown and a majority of legislators wouldn’t support a $52 billion tax hike to fix California’s gouged, pitted and cracked roads. They would find a way to do it with the resources they ...
Panel Discussion on California’s Housing Crisis
Watch PRI’s panel discussion on California’s housing crisis, held at the State Capitol in Sacramento. Moderated by PRI’s Kerry Jackson, speakers included California Department of Housing and Community Development Ben Metcalf, longtime lobbyist for the California building industry and housing policy expert Tim Coyle of Coyle Consulting, and YLC Member ...
Misguided State Policies Lead To More Companies Leaving California
This spring marks the first anniversary of the announcement that Carl’s Jr., a California burger icon for more than six decades, was relocating its headquarters to Nashville. It’s yet another business that has quit California in what was once an almost quiet exodus of companies but now looks more like ...
San Francisco’s Universal Health Care Plan Eyed As Model For California
SAN FRANCISCO — Maria Consuelo believes she’s alive today because of a groundbreaking program this left-leaning city created a decade ago – one that guarantees health coverage to every one of its 864,000 residents. It’s made San Francisco the only place in the country where truly universal health coverage exists, ...
Will Largest Gas Tax Increase In State History Bring Traffic Relief?
It’s painfully obvious that lawmakers in Sacramento just can’t help themselves. Otherwise Gov. Jerry Brown and a majority of legislators wouldn’t support a $52 billion tax hike to fix Califor- nia’s gouged, pitted and cracked roads. They would find a way to do it with the resources they have. Republicans ...
Join PRI For A Panel Discussion On California’s Housing Crisis On April 11
Join PRI for a “California Ideas in Action” Panel Discussion Unaffordable: How Government Policy Has Shaped California’s Housing Crisis and What Can Be Done to Fix It Tuesday, April 11 10:30 am California State Capitol, Room 126 Sacramento Please RSVP to Tim Anaya at [email protected] Click here for a flyer ...
CAPITAL IDEAS: Rent Control Would Put Housing Out of Reach for More Californians
Download the Brief Click here to watch PRI’s panel discussion on California’s housing crisis from the State Capitol in Sacramento. The most unaffordable city in the world in which to rent a home is not New York or Tokyo or Hong Kong. The title belongs to San Francisco, where a ...
Rent Control Would Put Housing Out of Reach for More Californians
The most unaffordable city in the world in which to rent a home is not New York or Tokyo or Hong Kong. The title belongs to San Francisco, where a single person who wants to live on their own needs to earn more than $85,000 a year to pay the ...
