Re the market and let people build how they like - people bought into nice single family home neighborhoods. They worked hard to get the dream. There are certain ethnicities that like to make money and will RUIN someone's home value instantly by building high density low income (small sq ft) apartments out of their lot. Imagine the usual neighborhood street, and a home in the middle of the street builds out by dividing their home into 4 units as per the law. Now, homes on either side of that monstrosity, homes behind that monstrosity and homes on the opposite side of the street have their home value destroyed. Now people want to move out before their home value plummets. A new slum is born. Government then pays the rent vouchers to the welfare cases who can't pay any amount of rent no matter how low, and CA workers pick up the bill in tax and lose value in their single family homes until they too are poor. Then you have dem exodus to your nice conservative state https://www.ocregister.com/2014/08/12/chinese-homebuyers-seeking-security-in-oc/ "Most buyers prefer to congregate near existing Chinese enclaves in Irvine and the San Gabriel Valley communities of Arcadia and San Marino. But local agents specializing in overseas transactions say buyers now are diversifying...People like to invest...They spent a week in the new home before Lu’s father jetted back to work in China" Diversifying / invest= MAKE MONEY OFF OF REAL ESTATE