"Screaming For Leadership" - California Voters DEMAND New Home Construction Amid 2.5M Housing CRISIS
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70% of registered California voters want more action on housing, a new poll finds. California needs to build 2.5M more homes to meet their housing needs. What will that mean for the state s housing shortage?
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California, voters want more action on housing, poll finds, okay, and this is from Politico.
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So what do they mean they want more action when it comes down to housing?
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So a University of California, Irvine's School of Social Ecology poll found that 70% of registered
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California voters consider the state's housing shortage a major funding priority with 33%
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of likely voters naming housing as their top issue, nearly twice as many as those prioritizing
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health care per the survey shared with Politico.
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John Gould, the dean of the School of Social Ecology, stated the lack of affordability of
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housing as the state continues to vex most Californians and they don't feel like it's
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The poll conducted before Governor Newsom and state lawmakers approved a plan to accelerate
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housing construction by exempting most urban projects from environmental reviews reflect
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ongoing voter frustration with California's affordability crisis, which has worsened homelessness
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and driven residents to more affordable Sunbelt states.
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Do you know how many houses the state of California believes it needs to build?
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And by the way, this is a correct analysis they've done, and I just used California incorrect
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California believes they need to build 2.5 million more homes, and this is everything
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from a 1,000-square-foot, one-bedroom apartment for a couple or a person to a 1,400-square-foot
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apartment, two-bedroom, two-bath for a small family to condos, townhouses, you know, high-density,
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They believe they need 2.5 million more homes today, and now they're saying, oh, you know
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That means they're going to stop having the phony inspectors that would go out to Palisades
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that said, we need to do a coastal environmental impact study before we can allow you to rebuild
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your home because we didn't want your home here on the coast in the first place.
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And you remember what people were saying, whether they were wealthy people or not, saying if
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that house burns down, they won't be able to build the one next to it, rebuild it for
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five years because the Coastal Commission and other things.
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So now California finally looking in the mirror and going, you know, all this permitting and
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all this other stuff we've got and all these phony environmental studies, gosh, maybe we
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should hang back on some of that so that allows developers to build this because we need
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two and a half million houses and it's going to take a hell of a long time to do with it.
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The California voters are saying, you moved a lot of illegals in here that squeezed out
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lower and then you built a multi-million dollar condo for the illegals in downtown LA that
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You know, a child has to pay, a child saves money all summer to buy themselves a skateboard.
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They took better care of it than the one you just gave them free because they lost the
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So, PBD, the voters are now surfacing this as number one.
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And you know what one of the reasons that these affordability is coming to number one on
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housing is because on a national level, immigration has slipped to like number three or four in
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If you ask voters right now, what's number one for you?
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Immigration and the border are down like number four or five.
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Because the president's fixed that part and has put a dent in it.
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They're screaming for new leadership and they're screaming in the form of, man, we need more
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They're not going to get that, Tom, that leadership.
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Because, Pat, question, if they need 3.5 million, what is the realistic number that they're
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Like, what's the they need to build 3.5 million in 2025?
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It's already we're already in for how many months?
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No, the study is they need two and a half right now.
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Magic, and that's where you have multiple families living in apartments and things like
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Do you know what all the fires that happened in California, Palisades, roughly 16,000 homes
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Of those, you know what percentage right now are living in RVs on their properties?
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What percentage are living in RVs in regular places?
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Of the money that came to them, do you know of all the 16 homes, 16,000 homes and structures,
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And outside of that, you ready for the next one of the six that we're talking about?
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They are saying that if the homes are not rebuilt within three years, they're out.
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When it comes down to permits, this is the craziest number out of everything that we're talking
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When it comes down to permits, do you know how many people, fires happened when, Rob?
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Can we find out when the exact fires were in California?
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What was the exact date that we were looking at?
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It was, let's say, right before election is what it was, or right after election.
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Okay, January 7th is when it started, and it was finally contained January 31st.
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Do you know what percentage of the people that have been wanting to rebuild their homes
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What percentage do you think have gotten permits?
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So, you know how Newsom is going, I'm going to sue Fox News for $787 million.
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President Trump does, hey brother, Mr. Newsom, Gavin Newsom, Governor Newsom, you realize all
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those homes that were burned, all the structures, everybody, only 14% have permits?
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You realize a couple billion dollars was given to trash?
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You realize how embarrassing that is, how terrible?
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If of the homes that were burned, and we're only talking 16,000, watch this here.
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Adam, Vinny, Tom is saying that they need to build two and a half million homes, right?
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How capable is a state of accelerating the process of building two and a half million homes
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when a fire happened in Palisades and 16,000 homes and structures were torn down, destroyed?
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Only six have been rebuilt and only 14% have gotten permits.
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With that kind of a regulatory environment, how long do you think it's going to take California
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Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
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State of California is just keep trying to get to the next campaign to be on the limelight
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I think Newsom is deep down inside worried because the Democrats have chosen Pritzker over him
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because the moment he tried to show that he's a little bit more on the center,
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the moment he went there, they're like, uh, the moment he went center, you know who he lost?
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He lost the left and the right because he went to the center,
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had a bunch of these conservatives on his show to act like, yeah, you know, Democrats, we didn't mess up.
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And so Republicans are like, whoa, maybe he's being a little bit reasonable.
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The center's like, maybe he's being a little bit reasonable.
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The right can't trust you because it's all theatrics.
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You're just trying to get ready for your 2028 election.
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Neither the left or the right trust you, period.
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So the only thing you have left is to allow the puppet masters on your political party
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That's all you got left because the amount of problems your state has
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and the speed of execution is so slow, people are not going to stay in your state.
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Adam, any thoughts on this before we go to the next story?
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Do you have that article about the housing crisis in the major metros, Rob?
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This was an article from Tuesday that actually I'm glad we're commenting on.
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It talks about how basically to live in America,
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it's completely unaffordable in 47 of the 50 major metro areas.
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So when you're doing your monthly budget, which I encourage everybody to do,
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which is you take your income and you minus your expenses,
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and then you have your net savings each month, hopefully you're saving that money,
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you're going to have a major problem doing that budget in one city in particular,
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So what they say, general rule, when you're doing your housing costs,
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which is your biggest part of your budget, something called the 30% rule.
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About how 30% of your monthly income should go towards housing.
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Here's the problem that you're going to run into.
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47 of the 50 top metro areas, people are spending more than the 30%.
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The only cities that it costs less are Pittsburgh, Detroit, and St. Louis,
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In New York, people are paying 67% of their total budget towards their housing.
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In Boston, it's 64%, so a little bit less than double.
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Most cities nationwide are averaging 45%, so there's a 15% delta.
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In big cities like Boston and New York, you're at 66%, 67%.
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In L.A., you have to spend 104% of your total budget on housing.
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And by the way, that's not because it's beautiful
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And just like toilet paper was a dollar a roll at Costco during the early part of COVID
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People were going in there buying the big pack of toilet paper,
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It's not because they love the beach and the weather,
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or they love the regulatory environment, or the traffic, or the lack of jobs,
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or the all-stop-with-the-list, or the high insurance, or no insurance.
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And those that are buying it bid the price up, and that's where the value is.
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Well, everything's always a supply-and-demand problem, right?
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And they have an affordability problem and a cost-of-living problem.
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From L.A., I continue to remind you, show me a good story that's coming out of California these days.
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Here's a doctor sitting down as a therapist, sitting down with his patient,
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Oh, I've got to take the jacket off for this one.
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I know we talked about that last time I was here.
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The kids are freaking screaming and yelling all the time.
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Let me ask you, when's the last time you and your wife sat down and actually mapped out
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your next five, 10, 15 moves, personal life, and your business life?
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The only thing we've ever mapped out was our Disneyland trip.
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I'm talking, like, five, 10, 15, 20 years from now.
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Do you spend a lot of time reading lately or no?
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I don't know about her, but the last thing I read was the back of a shampoo bottle while
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I know, but you should see the stuff that's in there.
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It's actually really interesting stuff, but I'm talking, like, life and business.
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Do you listen to anything he said and say, that's a little bit of me?
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When is the last time you and your wife took a time out, went away to a business conference
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If you've never done that, we host a conference once a year called The Ball Conference.
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From September 8th to the 11th, if you just watched this, you laughed a little bit,
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So I look forward to seeing you and your spouse September 8th through the 11th at the
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If there's one that I can tell you since 21 years old, I've gone to four to 10 business
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conferences every year purely to recreate myself.
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Let's spend four days to get in Orlando September 8th through the 11th.
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