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California has a huge labor shortage. It is extraordinarily expensive to live near any major population center. Agriculture is a huge industry, but many service, hospitality industries, etc. still need and require people living near big areas where the average housing price is 500k+ (this is including 1-2 commute to achieve that price excluding our high gasoline costs)
Who the fuck can sustainably work at or near minimum wage with those costs, paying full taxes.
This is an attempt at a labor policy that keeps all tech people happy they get can go out to dinner on Tuesday night.
In Canada we have similar issues in they want to bring in immigrants (many on student visas) by 100s of thousands which in turn sees them blamed for the housing affordability crisis when they really are brought in to help prop up not only the universities with higher enrollment fees but also to prop up employers that want workers at minimum or lower wages. It's an added bonus that they need to rent rooms from politician landlords.
There's definitely an issue with the impending shortage of younger population to support the aging population which is also why they're bringing immigrants in for, but it's also maintaining artificially low wages that normal market conditions would not ever see filled unless wages were increased.
In the meantime like in the US there is this low wage economic class of non citizens abused for cheap labor.
I think you are the only one who even got close to answering my question. Without just straight up attacking one point i made and then ignoring everything else i said.
This makes sense. And with how our gov revolves around work and corporate greed it would make even more then that California gov is trying to bolster its "low earners" economy.
Because a healthier population is a more able-working population. Great perspective
Have the tried building more housing?
Where? We don't own 2/3 of the land in the state. The Federal Government does, and we can't build there. We've built as much as we can, given maximum height restrictions, and used up basically all available land already.
I lived in the Bay area and travel to California often for work. You are just wrong. First off there is plenty of room, secondly you people build single detached homes when you should be building subways with apartment buildings. Sure the fed owns a lot of your land but who cares? It isn't in San Jose it is out in the freaken desert. Also freaken combine like things. It is so absurd how you randomly see fortune 100 companies next to houses.
Basically fly to the better coast and walk around Brooklyn. Take some pictures. Then show the people back home what you should be doing. This isn't rocket science.
We have to change the laws to be able to build like that. You aren't allowed to build taller than a certain height west of the 5. State and local maximum building heights do not allow us to build multiple use structures.
Sure there may be "plenty of room," but it's all owned, and zoned for single use structures. Believe me, I'm fighting to change that shit at the local level, but currently I couldn't replace my house with a brownstone because it will never get permitted, as in the permits needed for construction.
Also the fed owns land in the cities as well as the deserts, mountains, and forests.
So you admit that this is a human caused problem