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

[sarah FAILIN]

115. There are LOTS of cell phone providers.

I was with one for years that was just a little local company headquartered the next county over from me. Anyone can start up a cell phone company.

"Industries" and by that I assume you mean corporations or factories are owned by multitudes of people. This does not make any sense at all.

I'm sure there is a zoning law against apartment buildings in Atherton Ca, even though I've never been there. The residents of a city can make rules as to how many trees and what kind you can plant in your front yard if they want to. I'm sure the people of that town as a majority have voted to not have their town taken over by massive apartment buildings 50 stories tall like you say you would like. My town used to be a sleepy little town that didn't allow any store to open on Sunday, but they decided they wanted to grow and now it is a chore to drive from one end of it to the other because of all the crazy traffic we have now. That is what happens when a small town grows too much. I guess Atherton chose to continue to be a small town a family could feel safe in.

What free competition are you talking about? There are no restraints on competition or "royal patents". You problem is jealousy. You see others that own houses as having "royal patents" when in reality it is all your imagination. If you want the same things, go somewhere else. If all the land is in use where you are in Ca, go somewhere else. Go to another state. I hear they are begging people to help revitalize old homes in Detroit. Go there, create a job for yourself and then buy yourself a home. You do not get to steal another persons house to put a 50 story tall apartment building on the spot where the single family home stood.

I don't care what you think Paul Krugman thinks. The cause of you stagnating is you not working to get ahead on your own and being unwilling to do anything about it except complain that you want to take other peoples homes away from them so someone could build a 50 story monstrosity apartment building.