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The California Association of Realtors (CAR), the California Building Industry Association (CBIA), and Habitat for Humanity California have joined together to urge lawmakers to make additional investments in this year’s state budget to encourage developers to build more homes across California.
New Pluralist Vision for California
Robert Stark, Substack, May 24, 2021
The nation is caught up in a reckoning over racial justice that coincides with civil unrest and greater political polarization. In line with these national trends, California has put forth measures on racial justice grounds that include racial favoritist cash payouts, educational curriculum based upon divisive Critical Race Theory and austerity measures on the part of corporations using wokeness to justify laying off workers. The example of capitalizing all races while uncapping White is the very essence of Critical Race Theory. Despite almost unanimous institutional support, California citizens, including about half of non-Whites rejected a divisive measure to reinstate Affirmative Action in government employment and higher education.
Californians: Here’s Why Your Housing Costs Are So High
Back CalMatters Apr 13, 2021 By Manuela Tobias, Matt Levin & Ben Christopher Tenants and landlords are hurting, homelessness is skyrocketing and the housing market is out of control. The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t the only reason for that, but it’s making California’s longstanding housing crisis even worse. In 2021, nine out of ten Californians consider housing affordability a problem, and nearly one in three Californians are considering leaving the state because of it, according to a March survey by the Public Policy Institute of California. So how did things get so bad? Here’s what you need to know about
Cannabis equity, the next frontier in wokeness
A friend from California sent me a document from the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development. It’s called “Cannabis Equity Grants Programs For Local Jurisdictions.”
As I read the document, California’s program will provide $2 million to help localities establish a “cannabis equity” program. An additional $13 million will be used to help “equity applicants” set up and operate cannabis businesses. “Equity applicants” include (and seem to be limited to) people who have been convicted of using and/or selling cannabis.
Far out!
Here’s the justification:
Cannabis prohibition and criminalization had a devastating impact on populations and communities across California. Individuals convicted of a cannabis offense and their families suffer the long-term consequences of prohibition and criminalization. These individuals have a more difficult time entering the newly created adult-use cannabis industry