We just finished up our four-part event series that we titled "California's Crazy Housing Market." We covered everything from rent control and NIMBY-ism to how a bill that Governor Ronald Reagan signed back in 1970 is the major reason for how California builds its housing today.
A lot of it was depressing - 70 percent of Californians can't afford the media home price here - but there was one common, hopeful thread that linked all four panel discussion: Change won't come from the top down, it will come from individual homeowners and renters who band together to demand change in how housing is built, priced and offered to residents.
Listen to one, two or all four podcaststo get the details about the state of California housing:
Part 1: Why Are Housing Costs So Damn High
Part 2: Is "Affordable Housing" an Oxymoron Here?
Part 3: The Good and the Bad of Gentrification
Part 4: Time to Reform the California Environmental Quality Act?