California: People used to swim here!

If you lived here you'd agree.  He was mayor of San Francisco before running for Lt. Governor and that city, well....

Naturally a hard left Democrat is going to have a high approval rating in one of the most blue-leaning states in the country. George W. had high approval ratings in Texas when he was governor but I don't think anyone here would go bat for him as a politician.

And that's kind of a rosy picture you're painting of San Francisco. I get it, Republicans use it as an example of failed Democrat policies and you want to defend it but at the end of the day it has one of the highest costs of living in the country that people at the state level are unable and, what's worse, unwilling to address (see previous posts regarding the impossibility of residential development in the state) and combine that with an exploding homeless population that's due in part to local governments being unwilling and unable to enforce laws that would get people off the street. There are things that can be done to solve California's problems (rampant and worsening homeless chief among them, lack of affordable housing is right up there) but the people in charge oftentimes seem to do the opposite like the caps on rental increases that was also just signed into law and will ultimately hurt further development.

And regarding me calling Gavin slimy, I don't like low blows all that much unless it's reserved for people who legitimately come off as slimy people. Like someone who has an affair with the wife of his campaign manager/close friend for example. Like Gavin Newsom did. That's slimy.

Ohh after a couple days off I just want to get back to talking movies but I do agree with you, it is a case of supply and demand and right now it's pretty clear there's an extreme shortage of supply. A lot of that can be attributed to the myriad regulations, fees, codes etc. that developers need to abide by, many of which aren't found in neighboring states which is why you're currently seeing a big push to develop luxury condos and such rather than apartments especially in my turf of LA. Many of the the apartment developers have fled to Nevada, Arizona and such because the profit incentive to build rental units in California is evaporating.

Here's an example that I read about just last week. California recently set up a 'homeless task force' to go to the major cities and evaluate what can be done and for how much. This task force came to Los Angeles and after adding up all the consulting, environmental surveys, zoning approvals and everything else building in California entails, they found out that each emergency unit that they wanted to construct would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Each. Their immediate solution was to ask to be exempt from several of those regs so they could get the the buildings done cheaper and more quickly. Regs that just aren't found in other states. It's well known that building in California is impossibly expensive and can take years even to get approval to begin, even things like room additions or major renovations. The fact that a state-sponsored board had to point out the problem has put a spotlight on the whole issue that maybe, just maybe, if there was a little bit of deregulation then the people who actually build the low-to-mid income housing that we so desperately need might start coming back.

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Y’all haven’t burned to death yet, right?

Not yet!

He said the same thing last year when our state was on fire. He's such a piece of shit.

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Y’all fucked

www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-19/gavin-newsom-california-1-billion-federal-aid-coronavirus

Nilade vanished, so we can assume he’s dead. R.I.P.

Is that real?

No, I'm still here. Wife's been hijacking my computer.

We pulled the kids out of daycare and are both working remotely. I work 7am to 4pm, she works 4pm to midnight. I make the supply runs on weekends or my lunch break. We got this!!

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