California’s inept central planners

Gov. Gavin Newsom, the Legislature and the state’s bureaucracy claim to be addressing the state’s much discussed “housing crisis.” But rather than improve the state’s awful affordability crisis, the policies being enacted are precisely the wrong medicine, more akin to witch-doctoring than a scientific curative.
The list of newish blunders, built upon nearly thirty years of disastrous policies, include such things as new rent control measures, mandates for “zer