[wernercd]

State and Local governments COULD take steps to provide affordable housing... but that would ruin San Francisco!

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/In-a-wealthy-SF-n...

It won't match the Church! My kid(s) won't be safe! People with Mental Illness and Drug Addiction will end up there!!!

This is just one example I found for San Francisco... expand this example to any other town in California - Hollywood, The Valley... any part of town with wealthy people or people who don't want to lose their identity.

And THESE situations - in addition to basic Supply & Demand - are why housing costs are even WORSE in these areas. Demand alone causes the coastal areas to cost more - people want to live close to the ocean. This fight against affordable options cause the situation to be even worse.

Good luck solving it in California. I pick on CA, but CA isn't alone in these issues.