It's Only Livable if You Can Afford to Live
Proposition: the cost of living, especially housing, is what stops the whole world from moving to California. True? I went to Santa Rosa, CA to make sense of it all.
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Resources:
Danforth, Evelyn. "Proposition 13, Revisited." Stanford Law Review, vol. 73, no. 2, Feb. 2021 https://review.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Danforth-73-Stan.-L.-Rev.-511.pdf
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/property-taxes-by-state-county/
https://pacificlegal.org/california-has-the-highest-impact-fees-for-homebuilding-in-the-country/
Common Claims About Proposition 13 https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/3497
https://www.ppic.org/publication/proposition-13-40-years-later/
Nordlinger v. Hahn, 505 U.S. 1 (1992) https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/505/1/
https://repository.uclawsf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1845&context=ca_ballot_props
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