Indeed, there is a lot of blame to go around, as there are so many rules that they encourage speculation in some ways, the huge impact of government requirements makes it expensive to build, and then everyone has some fantasy Kalifornia is actually a nice place to live. Ugh...

Get the government out of the way! Rich people will build what they want -- newer and better. Trickle down housing will happen and more housing will be available at the low end.(It will be used housing, not targeted poor housing). Be sure the court system is honest and if developers of the new housing (for the rich who have lawyers) will do a good, safe job per spect's of the house to be built. GET OUT OF THE WAY.

I know...I know...sad really...

Well, golly gee, it's Moonbeam, for goodness sake. Did you expect coherence, or even logic?

Again, you are very correct, it is just keeping the government claws out of it. They probably would tell you why it can't be done because they are "mobile" or something, or not hooked up to services, or do not get trash pickup or something. Then they will want big bucks to "have them". Just saying..no good solution survives contact with a politician...

But there's the key - no real estate, so no permits, fees, etc.! It's like buying a shed.

Even the luxury models would be 1/6 of what Moonbeam thinks we have to spend (for probably the same square footage).
http://iceforts.com/fish-houses/for-s...

No, don't fall for it remember his answer is "new laws"....

Yep, proven over and over again since the 60's, but too much money is around to be spread around all their "lobbyists and special interests". Look at Chicago and Detroit..total failure.

And why would they need laws? If there is a business case, it would happen, but they have strangled business and free enterprise to the point it barely exists. He has no incentives, since they are virtually bankrupt...

They will love him for the money, like all good political whores, then scream when they do not get paid. Then riot because they either killed a fish, or arrested a many time felon "undocumented" as "racist". They have so diluted meaning that words do not have meaning anymore, just emotional value. As long as Kalifornia practices one party politics, they will continue to have it that way. Just like Oregon.

Good point, but you are dealing with out of control democraps who also have to factor in 100K per unit fees, tariffs, taxes, licenses, payoffs, slush money and 70K skimmed off the top for their next re-election campaign. You plan would work great. In Portland, they have something like that, and must have cut the graft too, as they are at 40-60K I believe.

"Instead, Brown made clear he would again support new laws that would make it easier to build new homes, lower costs to develop low-income housing and provide financial incentives for cities that meet housing production goals."
Clearly an example of the gov's deranged mind. How can he provide incentives when he has none to give? A little too much THC perhaps?

Good for you :-)

Just pointing out the obvious, but ALL low-income housing is too expensive to build. The government shouldn't be building it at all! And the only reason they build it is because their own regulations create effective minimum rent costs (like minimum wages) which price many people out of every option.

...because the weather suits their clothes?

I live in the Sacramento region, although thankfully in South Placer, I think our sheriff rounds them up and dumps them off in downtown Sac.

Nonetheless, I saw a perfect plan last week while "at home" in Minnesota. The next generation of ice fishing structures - they used to be junky plywood shanties designed to be pulled out on the ice with a snowmobile on skids. No more! Now they use a cargo trailer frame and build what kind of looks like a "little house" on TV, with a propane system, toilet, cooking facilities, a single cot/bed, etc. The trap doors (for fishing rod & gear) could even be omitted or maybe kept as a place to dump the stash in a hurry. These things go for about $8,000, and are obviously winterized. I saw we line them up. Much cheaper than the $150,000 a unit in some high rise that will give them no incentive to move-up in life.

CAexit will cause the state to get real. That'll get CA out of our pockets. It could bring the day of realism down upon them! "Let us pray"!

Get rid of regulation, and the number of homeless will drop.

Governor Moonbeam doesn't believe in helping the poor at the expense of the rich, or did reality set in and he realized there isn't a way to do it and have the other social and environmental concerns that are a priority?

Actually, there were 140,000 more American citizens who left California last year than arrived, but the population keeps going up. Yep, open borders sure seems to be working for them. Jerry Brown is all for President Trump's commitment to infrastructure projects, because he thinks he'll get the billions required to complete the high speed train from nowhere to nowhere. Is someone putting LSD in the drinking water out there?

Capitalism is a creator of jobs! They should lower the rate of confiscation so businesses might be able to expand and higher more people so they can buy or rent their own homes. Of course by lowering the rate of confiscation maybe more firms will not leave the state and maybe more firms might even move there. But of course that will never happen!

Wow. Jerry Brown leaning a little bit toward the free market, and maybe starting recognize that zoning is the problem, not lack of subsidies? I'm amazed, but pleased.

Because Kalifornia keeps needing more and more to feed the monster, and Jerry Brown will never stop. How Kalifornia voted him back in is amazing, wasn't there a homeless person under an overpass who would claim to be a Dumbocrap?This is the problem with one party rule, you are well and truely screwed. Their PERS problem will drive them bankrupt, soon. Oregon in=s in the same boat, they are trying all kinds of sleazy ways to get 6 Billion to try to stave on BK for their PERS here, and failed at the ballot, now they are trying it in the Legislature...

I also think a lot of them are produced here. Our cost of living is skyrocketing out here.

The real question is why? Why do they go there? Because Kalifornia promises free stuff...