California's government has destroyed the nation's housing market
By Rene Jax
copyright 2025
In April of 1983, I was living in San Francisco, at 56 Sanchez Street, apartment number six. My rent for that one bedroom was $210 dollars a month. One spring evening, my landlord knocked on the door and handed me a notice that he was going to sell the building as condos, and I was invited to buy my unit for $150,000 dollars. Now keep in mind that was the equivalent of 65 years of my rent. My salary then was only $490 per month, and I would have never qualified for a loan to stay living in my cute little, one bedroom apartment number six.
The thing to know about liberal politicians, is they hate business growth, and population growth, but love government growth. Businesses and community growth involves private financing, and removes control from them. Whilst growth of the government sector, allows the liberals to hire their friends, and control their enemies through pro-liberal regulations, permits, and taxation. As a result, San Francisco liberal politicians slowed housing growth in that city to its lowest point in nearly forty years. It was such a beautiful city back then. Its 21 little neighborhoods were unique, special and amazing places to live and shop. Each had its own personality and pace. But with the creation of Silicon Valley 40 miles south of The City, property sales went through the roof. At first, the sky high properties were just in Nob Hill, and Presidio parts of town. But as demand from employees of Silicon Valley soared, then more and more neighborhoods felt their real estate prices soar.
And because liberal San Francisco politicians had long kept new housing starts from happening, this new demand forced thousands of San Franciscans like myself out of the homes we loved. When this happened to me in 1983, the lowest rent I could find in The City, was over $700 a month. So it forced me to move out of the city I loved, and north to the small town of Benicia, California, where my rent was a staggering $ 550 a month.
The irony is that my moving to Benicia, helped to create the exact same situation as I had just left. Local Benicia people, who were just getting by, paying their $350 a month rents, were forced out when their rents went up, because of the influx of rental refugees people like myself. So, they in turn, moved farther West to Dixon, Sacramento, and Stockton areas.
And what started out as a boom in just two neighborhoods in San Francisco, had a tsunami effect of raising rents, all the way up to the foothill communities of Placerville, and Sutter Creek.
While the housing boom of 1983 was a direct result of economic growth in the South Bay electronic companies. Another housing tsunami created by the ruling liberal class of California has been going on for the last thirty years. It is caused by the Uber liberal Democratic state assembly members and the always Democratic governor. Through these Uber liberal politicians, thousands of State legislation bills have been passed, which limit business and property growth, relentlessly tax every aspect of common life, and ultimately force the average person and their families to move out of California.
When you study the number of people leaving California, you see that every year the number of people moving out of California is growing. And while the state shows a steady rate of people moving into it, they are mostly uneducated, illiterate migrants that come from Central and South American countries. They do this since California is a “Sanctuary State” where there is less likely hood of their being arrested for jumping the border.
The vast majority of people leaving the state are middle and upper class people that have the economics and type of job necessary to make the transition to live in Nevada, Idaho, and Texas. And sadly, since they can get top dollar for their California home, they are able to go into cheaper regions of the country and get amazing value for their cash.
And while the liberals in the California State Assembly, pridefully declare they are making the state into a liberal utopia. It is their refusal to allow unstructured housing growth, and unhindered business development, that is violently pushing people out of their homes and beloved state.
Two years ago, in a quest to find cheaper housing than that of Stockton, California I took two months and drove East along Interstate 80.
First stop Reno, Nevada. Reno is a college town, home of University of Nevada, Reno. And being a college town, you can generally expect rents around the college to be higher. But no, rents and property for sale was almost as high as Sacramento, due to the influx of California refugees.
Two hours East is the wind blown farm town of Winnimucca. I found the same thing there, a one bedroom apartment was $1500 a month, with all the realtors telling me it was from “those bastard Californians” moving into the area and buying up all available housing and land.
Again, the same story in Elko, Nevada, and Salt Lake City and Provo, Utah. A week later I found myself in the charming little town of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The nice lady at the gas station was born and raised in Rock Springs. She lives in the same two bedroom house she was born in. This small, 600 square foot house is now worth over $300,000 dollars due to California refugee invasion. Along with her explanation of the local housing and job market, she shared the fact that as a native of Wyoming, she has grown a deep and lasting hatred for Californians. “They move here and immediately start voting Democrat. Then they complain about all the men carrying guns and having rifles in their trucks.”
There is nothing quite like moving to a new area, and immediately complaining about the local culture and people, to ingrate oneself into the community.
Days turned into weeks for me, and the towns began to blur like a ferrous wheel. Cheyenne, Wyoming came and went, then Sydney, Troy and Omaha, Nebraska flew by my Chevy. Every city North of Denver, Colorado had housing costs that were so high, as to be in the Stratosphere. Kansas was no better. The exception being Colby, Ks. It is a cute little and dying farm town. But the nearest hospital was too far away as to be practical for anyone over the age of 50.
And this is a major issue that everyone considering attempting to run away from the effects of the California tsunami must consider. There are many very small, dying little towns scattered about the West. Towns with a few lost souls who refuse to join in with the rest of the population huddled in cities. But these towns are generally former mining towns out in the ACTUAL middle of Nowhere, USA. And as a result most don't even have gas stations, food markets, or doctors. They are welcoming places for rattle snakes, and coyotes, but are harsh environments for humans.
Seven weeks into my quest, I had traveled through Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and finally Missouri. I had put on over five thousand miles on my Chevy Astro Van, and seen more empty roads and coal filled trains than most long haul truck drivers would in a life time. And every where I went, I was told the same thing, Californians move in, housing prices go up, then long time residents move out to find cheaper housing.
Over and over, all across the western portion of the United States this same scenario has played out for the last thirty five years.
It is as if a nuclear bomb of bad liberal policies and laws has gone off in California. And the few who don't die immediately from this liberal radiation, are forced to flee their homes and find refuge in distant cities. This Californian Nuke, destroys communities, it tears families and family ties apart. It forces strangers into established communities that take in these cash-rich refugees, not understanding that they are politically and socially contaminated from their time in the California radiation zone. These poor refugees ultimately and eventually kill off the safety and community of the places they migrate to, by bringing their politics and liberal sensitivities with them.
What I ultimately found, The blast radiation from the Californian State politicians has spread over 2800 miles to the east. There is no place west of the Mississippi River to take shelter from the blast zone that is California. Every community, large and small suffers the effects from allowing in unlimited illegal migration. Every community west of Saint Louis is seeing locals who can no longer afford to live in their homes, leave.
And if this nuclear blast from progressive laws out in California wasn't enough to send housing costs out of this world, then the Biden administration's bringing into the USA nearly 20,000,000 foreigners in the four years of their administration was the metal pipe that destroyed affordable housing in the country.
Let's look at just one example. That of Springfield, Ohio. Once a town of 58,000 people. The Biden White House brought in an estimate 20,000 migrants from Haiti in a little over one year. The resulting chaos and housing price jump was unprecedented. Some rentals saw a 3000% increase, when local landlords found the US gov would pay any price to house their immigrants.
Let me explain how things have traditionally worked in cities.
- Cities see an increase in the local birthrates.
- City planners determine how many and when those new births will result in school attendence.
- If the growth is greater than capacity, they begin to plan for new schools, new roads, new sewers, new land purchases, added electricity requirements, and new building permits.
- This data allows them to increase funds for Emergency services, fire, ambulance, and police.
- They develop a future financial forecast, and figure out how much additional money they need for all the growth.
- They plan out their future city on paper with a timeline.
- They begin offering Bonds for all this new growth.
- About four years into this process, they have some, but not all the money to begin their twenty year city plan.
But to just dump 20k or 50k new people from Africa or Asia into an American community is a recipe for disaster. But the Biden White House didn't care about the local chaos and damage to the communities. All they cared about was bringing in enough people that would vote democrat for ever. And these 20Million illegal migrants were the straw that killed our housing market.
Everywhere I traveled, I heard the same statement, but said in different accents. “God Damn Californians”
I would add to that, "Damn the Biden White House"