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Why the continued emphasis on supply and not demand?

It's true that CA housing supply has not kept up demand, leading to a shortage. The common way of looking at this is as a shortage of supply, and this article itself is primary focused on supply.

But that perspective is too narrow. Why does the excess demand not get more attention? For the past several decades focusing on supply has not resolved the issue so perhaps it's time to focus more on the demand side of the picture. A shortage takes two to tango, demand and supply must be mismatched. Analyzing and addressing it should tackle both as well, and not over emphasize only one side of the picture.

Why do so many people want to live in CA rather than Arkansas or Idaho? Yes the jobs is one part of it, but perhaps with work from home more normalized that challenge will become moot. What other changeable factors are driving people to CA? The on issue is CA has limited ability to change other states, but nevertheless without solving this national issue CA will be faced with addressing the symptom not the root cause. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.241.192.137 (talk) 00:35, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]