Why Voters Haven’t Been Buying the Case for Building

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It’s not because they’re stupid. If we want to convince people, we need to stop yelling and start listening. RICK JACOBUS PUBLISHED: FEBRUARY 19, 2019 SHARE TOPICS FROM LEGACY ISSUE Downtown Los Angeles. Photo by Giuseppe Milo, via flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0 Liam Dillon covers the politics of housing policy more closely and thoughtfully than almost any other journalist in the country and yet he was nearly dumbfounded by the results of a recent survey commissioned by his paper, the Los Angeles Times. The Times and researchers from the University of Southern California asked 1,200 California residents about the causes of the housing crisis. Only 13 percent of respondents blamed the crisis on “too little homebuilding.” Twice as many people included “lack of funding for affordable housing” or “lack of rent control” as top explanations for the problem. Dillon sought comments from experts who struggled to explain the results; they all agreed that the lack of supply is at the root of the problem. D

Liam Dillon covers the politics of housing policy more closely and thoughtfully than almost any other journalist in the country and yet he was nearly dumbfounded by the results of a recent survey commissioned by his paper, the Los Angeles Times . The Times and researchers from the University of Southern California asked 1,200 California residents about the causes of the housing crisis . Only 13 percent of respondents blamed the crisis on “too little homebuilding.” Twice as many people included “lack of funding for affordable housing” or “lack of rent control” as top explanations for the proble

Why Voters Haven’t Been Buying the Case for Building

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