California housing crisis affecting middle class the most: It's 'a broken system'

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98. I agree. The 5th doesn't say that.

But a few years back, the Supreme Court ruled that it was OK. Personally, I don't agree with that ruling, but then . . . .

Prop. 13 still exists and, if repealed, would mean that people relying on Social Security as income could not live much of anywhere in California.

It created its own Hell. A very Republican measure. My husband and I would be forced to sell our house and move to someplace we have never lived at our ages, in our 70s, if Prop. 13 were repealed. It has helped to raise the cost of housing in California in my humble opinion. Had it not existed, I think that the housing market here would be more sane. As it is, older people who own their homes but have very low incomes can to some extent take their low tax base with them, but can't find housing they could afford where they want to live.

Today it is sunny and in the 70s. Think about the temperatures back east. Everyone wants to live here or so it seems.

We came here because the area had lots of jobs.