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Dan Dunmoyer, president and chief executive officer, California Building Industry Association A recent opinion authored by Scott Littlehale, “The missing ingredient to solve California’s housing affordability crisis,” erroneously embraces the position that California’s housing crisis is primarily due to a shortage of construction labor. Simply put, a shortage of labor isn’t the problem if new […]

经过 嘉宾评论 • 1 月 25, 2019

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Housing crisis

Dan Dunmoyer, president and chief executive officer of the California Building Industry Association Recent opinion authored by Ashley Warner, Don’t blame environmental law for California’s housing crisis, severely over simplifies the effect of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) upon the state’s housing crisis.   Ms. Warner lays out a naively simplistic scenario that suggests […]

经过 嘉宾评论 • 1 月 25, 2019

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My turn: The missing ingredient to solve California’s housing affordability crisis

While the industry’s choices may well have been informed by the cost of decades of new regulatory burdens, an agenda focused exclusively on regulatory reform will only serve to compound the residential construction sector’s current labor shortage. The first step to building more housing is attracting and sustaining a labor force that knows how.

经过 嘉宾评论 • 1 月 24, 2019

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My turn: A California solution to immigration policy

Imagine if California’s undocumented workers were to stop working. Unharvested crops would rot in the fields. The hospitality industry would shut down. Residential construction would plummet. It would be an economic catastrophe.

经过 嘉宾评论 • 1 月 23, 2019

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My turn: We must shelter the people the ‘free market’ leaves behind

It’s great that the free market works well for builders and buyers who want to make a lot of money or have a lot of it to spend. Supply and demand, however, only go so far. Housing is a basic human need that is crucial to giving children and families the ability to grow and thrive and the elderly a safe place to retire in peace.

经过 嘉宾评论 • 1 月 22, 2019

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My turn: The Legislature must make hard choices to avert PG&E bankruptcy

Gov. Gavin Newsom needs legislators to begin the uncomfortable work of making changes to our infrastructure, our policies, and yes, our liability laws, so that we can build a state meets the current challenges of climate change while reducing its impact in the future.

经过 嘉宾评论 • 1 月 21, 2019

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My turn: What I learned from the last time PG&E went bankrupt

PG&E's bankruptcy in 2001 and the one to come are at once similar and very different. But we did learn lessons the hard way in 2000 and 2001. Having lived through the last bankruptcy, my suggestion to policymakers is to slow down and conduct a thorough analysis to fully understand the nature of the problem.

经过 嘉宾评论 • 1 月 20, 2019

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My turn: What Trump could have said from the Oval Office

What if Donald Trump had used those nine minutes, or even a portion of them, to convey a different message, one that reminded us of what binds us rather than what separates us, reminded us to help those, as the song says, who are walking on the boulevard of broken dreams? What if?

经过 嘉宾评论 • 1 月 19, 2019

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My turn: Air board’s plan to raise fees threatens our economy and climate goals

The California Air Resources Board has adopted an aggressive regulation, baking in higher consumer and industry costs in the hope of squeezing out more emission reductions. This approach not only flouts the express will of the Legislature, but undermines the moral authority for engaging in state-level greenhouse gas regulation.

经过 嘉宾评论 • 1 月 18, 2019

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My turn: Why I joined the picket line at Manual Arts High in L.A.

For many people outside Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Unified School District strike might seem far away, with little relevance to their daily lives. But the strike hits closer to home than you might think.

经过 嘉宾评论 • 1 月 17, 2019