> By this metric, we can see that the states where it’s easiest to find housing include Utah (2.83 units per capita), California (2.75), Hawaii (2.57), and Texas (2.57). Overall, in the United States, there are approximately 2.35 housing units available per capita
I don't know how deedclaim computed those numbers, or the reliability of the source; but California most definitely has a shortage of housing. The numbers I quoted come from the McKinsey Global institute study: https://web.archive.org/web/20161105022549/https://www.mckin...
And local policy is very much a problem. Briefly as described in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IHEMHc2yfY, California has a lot of housing restrictions, a high cost of construction, and processes that make it easy for housing opponents to block new developments.
And your statement "you will see fewer homeless people moving to California to camp in a tent and then finding it tough to get back into housing." is not an accurate characterization. Most of the homeless in California are Californians. Quoting from 2023 UCSF homeless study (https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/sites/default/files/2023-06/CA...): "People experiencing homelessness in
California are Californians. Nine out of ten
participants lost their last housing in California;
75% of participants lived in the same county as their last housing"
I don't know how deedclaim computed those numbers, or the reliability of the source; but California most definitely has a shortage of housing. The numbers I quoted come from the McKinsey Global institute study: https://web.archive.org/web/20161105022549/https://www.mckin...
And local policy is very much a problem. Briefly as described in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IHEMHc2yfY, California has a lot of housing restrictions, a high cost of construction, and processes that make it easy for housing opponents to block new developments.
And your statement "you will see fewer homeless people moving to California to camp in a tent and then finding it tough to get back into housing." is not an accurate characterization. Most of the homeless in California are Californians. Quoting from 2023 UCSF homeless study (https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/sites/default/files/2023-06/CA...): "People experiencing homelessness in California are Californians. Nine out of ten participants lost their last housing in California; 75% of participants lived in the same county as their last housing"