Andrew Heaton Investigates California's Massive Housing Crisis

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Andrew Heaton Investigates California's Massive Housing Crisis

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California is having a massive housing crisis. The leading issue is (surprise) that they don't have enough houses for their rapidly growing population. The leading cause of that is because it's too damn expensive to build there. Between the many myriad state and local regulations, permits, fees, graft, and red tape, any developers able to pull off new housing pass those costs on to would-be renters and buyers.
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@johnhenryweber665 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a simple man. A simple man that automatically clicks on and likes anything Heaton related.

@kevinh5983 3 жыл бұрын

I would vote for an amendment that bans wildfires. That would fit perfectly in California. I'm surprised newsom didn't think of it first.

@zirconiumdiamond1416 2 жыл бұрын

2:00 Turns out that "encourage people to leave" plan is in progress. LA was in the process of losing 176,000 people when this video came out.

@JonathanRossRogers 2 жыл бұрын

This was apparently made during the brief period during which Heaton tried to live in California. He's since moved to Oklahoma.

@fatcat4191 2 жыл бұрын

Good to see the issue of violent mole people finally getting the recognition it deserves

@mrgmsrd 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. As a former Angeleno, this is well (and humorously) presented. On another note, why the heck did you move to Cali?

@Siskiyous6 3 жыл бұрын

This is soo true, it has taken a long time for this info to start getting out.

@CaveFreediving Жыл бұрын

My friend once had a 2000 sqft house in Florida for a $1200 mortgage, but needed to move to California for a job. He ended up getting a studio apartment for $3000 a month in California! So sad

@SaiaArt 2 жыл бұрын

People are figuring out that there are in fact 49 other States. Almost all of them more affordable with fewer laws & restrictions.

@computron5824 Жыл бұрын

One year later, and the median house price in California reached about $900,000. Karen Bass won against Rick Caruso for mayor of Los Angeles, but neither candidate believes in upzoning. Both candidates said that single family neighborhoods should remain off limits for greater density housing in Los Angeles. Release the mole people. Los Angeles deserves it.

@verfed 2 жыл бұрын

Please make more content Andrew Heaton, anywhere. You are funny.

@seanfager8063 2 жыл бұрын

Are you familiar with his podcasts, Alienating the Audience, The Political Orphanage, and Losers Pretenders and Scoundrels? Between those, the Reason videos, and his stand-up, I'm not sure the guy sleeps anymore.

@JaredKaiser24 2 жыл бұрын

in my state $74K can get you a 3 bedroom house with a garage

@larryboles629 2 жыл бұрын

I would not doubt that CA was the first state to implement segregation by building codes. CA has always been a "progressive" state, even in the early 1900s. Oh, the state government will deny this, then spin it that they are the most "inclusive," most caring state in the union. They will go on to show you all the state progarms to "help" the low or no income groups. The reason for the homeless in CA is well defined by you video Andrew. Thank you for the time and effort. Be happy, be safe where can I find your mail-order bride profile? ......

@computron5824 Жыл бұрын

I have to admit that California has perfected virtue signaling to the ultimate level. A complete beacon of virtue for the United States that for some reason just can't build housing decade after decade after decade. But hey, at least they can implement restrictions on straws and ketchup packets. The world is saved.

@michaelmurphy2112 2 жыл бұрын

I notice there isn't a version of the military's "One room with 18 sets of 3-person bunk beds with people who can't remember to shower or change their sheets"

@frenchstudentA 2 жыл бұрын

"Shots fired Arkansas. You know what you did."---"And we promise we'll never give the world another Bill Clinton again!"

@KerbalFacile 2 жыл бұрын

Here in Ireland we have most of Dublin currently in the "bunk bed with cats" stage. It's funny how the same causes have the same consequences regardless of where.

@superdingo9741 2 жыл бұрын

7:00 That's aged as good wine 🤣

@gregthebaritone 2 жыл бұрын

If you live in the largest city, NYC, you are plagued by an inefficient public transportation system, where unless you are a high earner, you have to live so far out that it takes around an hour to get to work each day, counting the usual delays, even though you are only travelling maybe 10 miles. Compound that with real estate prices in the city are being driven up, particularly in the middle of the city, due to worldwide investors keeping properties empty and purchasing only for investment purposes, driving people further out of the city. Then the city puts in more high rise apartments, whose residents are dependent on the already crippled public transportation system, which has no room for growth, with subways being packed full during rush hour as it is.

@rolyars 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, here in Europe it's quite similar. Because of the money printing investors are looking at anything scarce such as real estate. They can easily 'buy' this because of the low interest rates but this also creates insane bubbles. Of course they'll do anything to keep this bubble from bursting, screwing much of the middle class in the proces.

@Knightmessenger Жыл бұрын

I thought the NYC subway despite horrible upkeep, is actually pretty useful and effective for a lot of people. It's certainly better than most of North America. If the trains are too crowded, make service more frequent. That is a lot easier to do and solves the problem, unlike adding a lane to a freeway.

@gregthebaritone Жыл бұрын

Knightmessenger: I cannot reply directly to you, because YT censorship has gotten so bad that replies to replies to my own comments do not show up. Hopefully, you can see this reply, because I cannot even see your comment outside of this account. The NYC subway has reached the point of diminishing return. I've left the area because it is uninhabitable, but with increasing the rate of subways, what you ended up with, and I saw, was during peak periods, the next train would show up in 20 minutes, and then immediately afterwards, one or two more trains would show up as the trains would stack up. I would use this to my advantage using Google maps reporting, as the last train would have seats available and all the rest before would be sardine cans. I may be a couple minutes later. but at least I got a seat and some breathing room. Of course, often Google would be wrong and the next train didn't come until another 20 minutes later.

@Knightmessenger Жыл бұрын

@gregthebaritone still sounds better than LA freeway traffic. My point is, despite all the problems with the NYC subway and lack of care, a subway is still a really good thing to have. Perhaps NY would benefit if the lines went further or more high density housing was allowed to be built further away from Manhatten. I don't know much about NYC issues but generally, allowing more housing to be built in a given area can slow rent from increasing.

@stevenroetzel4470 2 жыл бұрын

What? What did we do? Whatever it was, I sincerely apologize. And I will never do it again, (if I can figure out what it was). Sincerely sorry. Signed Arkansas

@th3freakie 2 жыл бұрын

I'm about as far from a libertarian as you can be, but I won't ever not like Andrew Heaton content

@cotilake 3 жыл бұрын

Accessory Dwelling Units get a lot of leeway in Los Angeles and California in general (I just have personal experience in LA) But there are always hoops people have to jump through Idk I go back and forth on the regulation of what people can build on their own property

@anthonydonley3977 2 жыл бұрын

Every woke-lefty who lives in a California gayborbood needs to see this. I don’t think Mississippi still has Jim Crow laws but…. California sure does!

@jasonreed6363 2 жыл бұрын

Many states still have a "black clause"

@johnvannewhouse 2 жыл бұрын

Weird....who would have thought that making is EXTRAORDINARILY DIFFICULT to build housing....would result in a shortage of housing?!?! Fucking so crazy!!!! How counter-intuitive is THAAAAAT?!?!?

@mirzaahmed6589 2 жыл бұрын

2:35 me too, man, me too.

@ryankuhn8590 Жыл бұрын

I love how this still is relevant.

@alanfaulds3646 2 жыл бұрын

If you want to bring down the cost of houses, make it that single-detached dwelling, and Condo's must lived in, by the property owner and not rental properties, or investment property.

@jeremiahblake3949 Жыл бұрын

Communism doesn't work mate. Taking away rentals means fewer houses and more cost.

@joiscode3832 2 жыл бұрын

Lmao. Here from Arkansas. im dieing from the Arkansas joke.

@admthrawnuru 3 жыл бұрын

What, did they run you out of Brogden, PA, Andrew? ;)

@rolyars 2 жыл бұрын

This is going on all over the Western world to some degree. My take is that due to low interest rates and high liquidity housing markets have turned into huge bubbles. Thus, demand has to remain higher than supply or the bubble will burst.

@Weirdomanification Жыл бұрын

Good point

@jdinhuntsvilleal4514 2 жыл бұрын

Isn't the current massive emigration out of California helping the housing situation at all?

@jasonreed6363 2 жыл бұрын

No because mortgages still need to be paid regardless of occupancy

@jdinhuntsvilleal4514 2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonreed6363 What does that have to do with more homes being available?

@tenossos Жыл бұрын

No, because rich and poor immigrants are still moving in. It's the middle class that's moving out.

@troycates8504 3 жыл бұрын

Hmm? I thought I posted on the last post but I guess I imagined it.

@Gamenetreviews 3 жыл бұрын

Put this on Reason

@russellhowes1359 Жыл бұрын

Or switch to a decentralized city model, that has lots of smaller cities clustered together. Combined with working from home and the roads are significantly emptier.

@FirstLast-xd3vz 2 жыл бұрын

You're so funny. Thank you for making this.

@JasonMitchellofcompsci 9 ай бұрын

Also make housing more liquid so people can easily move to where their work is when they see a good price in its area. Basically tax house sales and purchases less.

@friarnewborg9213 2 жыл бұрын

"NOT ENOUGH HOMES"? there is a fix... People can juts move elsewhere. and they are doing that at a huge rate. Replaced by illegals, who may have lower cost expectations

@danz1182 2 жыл бұрын

A gross oversimplification. You can't make livable city simply by eliminating zoning. You don't have zoning, you get Houston. Houston doesn't have zoning, but it looks pretty much like everywhere else in the US anyway. If you have an existing neighborhood of single family homes and you pop a 10 unit apartment building with no on-site parking (parking space requirements are as big as or a bigger limited on multifamily construction than zoning. Even if the zoning otherwise allows for a duplex or tri-plex they are likely rendered impossible by the requirement that the property have 2 or 3 parking spaces per unit) onto a lot everyone in the neighborhood will be miserable. Most US residential neighborhoods with single family zoning have streets platted much narrower than in a typical city. They don't easily accommodate even one-side of the street parking. Sewer and water systems are designed with the capacity to support current single family platting. You also are going to create massive traffic problems because if you are redeveloping existing neighborhoods there probably is no room to build new roads. You are going to overload all the supporting infrastructure. To fix what is broken you need to start the game over. You need to redevelop large tracts so you can put the proper infrastructure in place to support the number of people you want to live there. Simply lifting the zoning restrictions is not an answer.

@theBear89451 2 жыл бұрын

Infrastructure (roads, sewer, water, ...) are all cheaper over the long term when serving apartment buildings.

@patrickday4206 2 жыл бұрын

I agree but there are some exceptions such as duplex style they could alow and could work. And some sections that could easily add apartments because it's on the edge of a neighborhood close to main sewer lines

@Knightmessenger Жыл бұрын

Houston has all the bad elements of car dependent suburbia created by zoning, but without calling it zoning. Look up a video called "why i hate Houston" by Not Just Bikes.

@perfectfan2006 2 жыл бұрын

lol 100k a year are getting out of that place but 500k more come across the boarder's if you got money you are getting out of California and do what i did sell your starter home for 5 times what you paid then leave buy two houses and 5 acer's of land and have enough left over to put 50k in a fund for your grand kids ..

@mmmddd4366 2 жыл бұрын

These ideas you have have been tried in Australia. The people go used to shittier houses at the same price. You will own less and be indebted.

@brackcarmony6385 2 жыл бұрын

Hard to own less house than no house.

@mmmddd4366 2 жыл бұрын

@@brackcarmony6385 my recommendation is just move to the sticks. Don't support the city or anything else working in direct opposition to you *if you can*

@Knightmessenger Жыл бұрын

You should do a collab with Not Just Bikes.

@Sound557 3 ай бұрын

9:48 GeoLibertarianism wins the day again

@patrickday4206 2 жыл бұрын

People should look to housing in places like Philadelphia and other larger cities town houses really help with urban sprawl I'm not for attached fire issues and all but small distances between them built upwards. England is a great example for attached housing quality housing with limited space

@johnestupido1418 2 жыл бұрын

I would love to leave California but the weather is too good and I live in one of the lowest crime areas in the country.

@EF-69 3 жыл бұрын

Wait, why are houses there so big? People have too much stuff, or too much empty space, or maybe there's too many people. My house is 900 square feet for 4 people. That's a house, not an apartment. A generation ago a family of ten would occupy such a house. How about subdividing lots, building smaller homes? Yeah it's still single family zoning. And, not that government deserves more, but that equals more property tax payers versus square footage. Here in the People's Republic of Chicago we know about property taxes. 900 square feet will cost you $5000 each year.

@harmonicarchipelgo9351 3 жыл бұрын

Even so, that is far less geometrically efficient than apartment buildings or even duplexes. 2 separate buildings on a lot need space in between them whereas a duplex can fill that with more house. And an apartment complex could fit 10 units in the space of 1 current lot through the magic of the 3rd dimension. But you are right that smaller houses are better than nothing.

@theBear89451 2 жыл бұрын

Over the past 50 years, land price has grown faster than base inflation, while construction costs have been slower. The result is smaller lots with bigger houses.

@stvargas69 2 жыл бұрын

Just think, all it took to reduce Californias population was draconian mandates and a bad economy. Unfortunately housing is still unaffordable. No worries, as a Californian living outside of LA county, I anticipate my lil plot of dirt to make me a small fortune when I retire, if I can before the state taxes me to death

@user-ty2uz4gb7v Жыл бұрын

Just rezone to allow apartments California. Sheesh.

@SirDurpal0t 2 жыл бұрын

Many people may not enjoy an apartment over a house, especially considering it's not possible to own an apartment,

@nate8892 Жыл бұрын

Condos exist you know

@SirDurpal0t Жыл бұрын

@@nate8892 yea everyone has a hundred grand to throw around for the top of a building they also cant own haha

@nate8892 Жыл бұрын

@@SirDurpal0t yeah everyone has a million to throw around for a 60-year old bungalow. Show me one city where purchasing a free-standing home is more expensive than purchasing (as in owning) a single condo unit. For most people, owning a condo is far a much easier bullet to bite.

@Knightmessenger Жыл бұрын

Nobody is arguing for forcing people to live in apartments. Just that alternatives to single family homes shouldn't be illegal. Say there's a plot of vacant land. Should the government tell a developer that he cant build a duplex/condo/apartment there or should the developer be able to decide based on supply and demand, and potential buyer preference? Even if upzoning was passed everywhere, a developer could still build a single family home if that was thought to be the best opportunity. They just wouldn't have to.

@perfectfan2006 2 жыл бұрын

ask blackwater they own all the houses now are a trillion dollar company who buys up all housing at any price then backs with the government to raise the cost of a house so even with good credit and 50 grand down we cant afford to buy one.

@fullthrottlemaxrpm 3 жыл бұрын

Farrow infernos..... lol

@nakosimpson7459 2 жыл бұрын

House

@TheRoark85 2 жыл бұрын

I don't get it, i could buy several nice houses in California for the price i paid for my 1 bedroom shitbox flat i recently purchased here in Melbourne...

@theBear89451 2 жыл бұрын

Superannuation early access is driving up the prices.

@jeremymercer5655 Жыл бұрын

Comment for the algorithm

@bananafoneable 2 жыл бұрын

Leave California

@forgetfuljade Жыл бұрын

Arkansas what you do?

@jamesbuchanan3888 10 ай бұрын

Am I the only one to see the massive irony of zoning in a leftist paradise being a major cause of pollution? Building out needs more roads and other infrastructure to support it. Building out means a longer and more congested commute to and from work. Building out maximizes the human footprint on the land. Building out maximizes structural vulnerability to wildfires. Building up mostly utilizes existing roads and infrastructure. Building up enables people to live closer to work, reducing commute distance and time. Building up leaves more land in its natural state. Building up reduces wildfire vulnerability.

@bananafoneable 2 жыл бұрын

Vote Larry Elder

@willmitchell6521 2 жыл бұрын

Cognitive dissonance is when people don't address the liberal policies that made California so bad and that's why we left

@mad9172 4 ай бұрын

Ya they have use Bill Clinton

@uncivilizedengr4873 Жыл бұрын

is "encourage people to leave" code for : VOTE DEMOCRAT?!? :D lulz

@smicksmookety 2 жыл бұрын

He's questionably Andrew Heaton.

@alanfaulds3646 2 жыл бұрын

Nevermind, sorry didn't realize this was a socialist video

@nate8892 Жыл бұрын

This isn't a socialist video.

@Knightmessenger Жыл бұрын

How is advocating for less restrictions on what you can do with your private property, promoting socialism? 🤦‍♂️ If anything, single family zoning is closer to central planned economies than a free market.