Planning reform, private sector innovation key to fixing housing market: Gary Painter

Editor’s note: This op-ed is part of the SoCal Policy Forum, a partnership between the Southern California News Group and the Center for Social Innovation at UC Riverside. For more SoCal perspectives on the problems of housing affordability and homelessness, visit socalpolicy.org.
Let me start by stating the obvious.  The institutions that control housing markets in California are broken, and the pain is widespread.
Whether you live in Los Angeles County or in an exurban region like t