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🗓️ 5 July 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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California voters rank housing as the top issue, demanding action on the affordability crisis. The PBD Podcast breaks down Newsom’s stalled leadership, environmental red tape, and how California’s housing failures are driving residents to leave the state in record numbers.
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0:00.0 | California, voters want more action on housing, poll finds, okay? And this is from Politico. |
0:06.5 | So what did they mean they want more action when it comes down to housing? So a University |
0:13.0 | California Irvine's school of a social ecology poll found that 70% richest California voters |
0:18.3 | consider the state's housing shortage, a major funding priority, |
0:21.8 | with 33% of likely voters naming housing as their top issue, nearly twice as many as |
0:27.8 | those prioritizing health care per the survey shared with Politico. |
0:33.9 | John Gould, the dean of the School of Social Ecology, stated the lack of affordability of housing |
0:40.2 | as the state continues to vex most Californians, and they don't feel like it's being addressed. |
0:46.1 | The poll conducted before Governor Newsom and state lawmakers approved a plan to accelerate housing construction |
0:52.4 | by exempting most urban projects from environmental |
0:55.5 | reviews reflect ongoing voter frustration with California's affordability crisis, which has worsened |
1:00.9 | homelessness and driven residents to more affordable Sunbelt states. Tom, thoughts on the story. |
1:07.5 | Do you know how many houses state of California believes it needs to build? |
1:13.7 | And by the way, this is a correct analysis they've done. And I just used California incorrect in the same sentence. |
1:16.4 | I apologize if I offended anyone. |
1:18.8 | California believes they need to build 2.5 million more homes. |
1:25.6 | And this is everything from a 1,000 square foot, one-bedroom apartment for a |
1:30.6 | couple or a person to a 1,400 square foot apartment, two-bedroom, two-bath for a small family, |
1:37.2 | to condos, townhouses, you know, high-density, more higher-density single-family units. |
1:43.6 | They believe they need two and a half |
1:45.8 | million more homes today. And now they're saying, oh, you know what we're going to do? |
1:51.5 | We're going to skip environmental reviews. You know what that means? That means they're going to |
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