Don’t believe the doomsday scenarios on our housing needs

A spate of recent research reports all seem to point to a severe housing shortage in California. Most notable among these is a McKinsey Global Institute report, which projects that by 2025, at current construction rates, California’s housing gap will be 2.5 million units.
That projected gap is based on what California will need to bring its housing units per capita in line with that of New York or New Jersey. But why compare California with those states or, for that matter, any other state