Gavin Newsom's Presidential Prospects
Conservatives often see prospective presidential contender Gavin Newsom as a tool of the far Left—and, as such, politically doomed by the seemingly endless crises afflicting California. Yet the Golden...
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Housing Affordability in California: Part 1 — The Situation
There is probably no issue more requiring resolution in California than poor housing affordability. It is a threat to the preservation of the middle-class and the competitiveness of the state.Housing...
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The California Headquarters Exodus Continues
A new Hoover Institution (Stanford University) report indicates that California continues to shed corporate headquarters locations to other states.Hoover Institution Senior Fellow and UCLA...
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Housing Affordability in California: Part 2 — Urban Land Markets
Harvard’s William Alonso showed that the value of residential land tends to increase from the rural uses on the urban fringe1 to centers of economic activity, such as central business districts.2Urban...
View ArticleWest Coast Blues
Few regions have been more consistently Democratic than the West Coast. Even compared with the Northeast, where Republicans occasionally win governors’ offices, the appropriately named “left coast” has...
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Friends of the Urban Forest
Cities are better when there’s a generous tree canopy. Vegetation keeps the city cooler in summer, trees help clean the air, absorb noise, and beautify the landscape. Properties on tree lined streets...
View ArticleHow the California Dream Became a Nighmare
For Americans, California once looked like the future. It was a state defined by risk-taking and utopian dreaming. Yet for most Californians today, the upward mobility so central to the state’s ethos...
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California: Most Urban and Densest Urban State
The 2020 Census reveals California to have both the highest urban population density and the highest urbanization share of total population among the states. The urban areas of California have a...
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California 2022: 400,000 Leave, Yolo County Grows the Most
California continues to lose population, according to the latest State Department of Finance estimates for the year ended July 2022.The state dropped from 39.2 to 39.0 million population in 2022, for a...
View ArticleCalifornia Jobs: A Multi-Dimensional Problem
“From the Beginning, California promised much. While yet barely a name on the map, it entered American awareness as a symbol of renewal. It was a final frontier: of geography and of expectation.”—...
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