Econ Shots #10: Housing in San Francisco since 1970

California is a mess.

Sources:

Thomas Sowell, Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One, rev. edn. (2004; New York: Basic Books, 2009), pp. 95-120.

'California's Most Dangerous Cities':

Oakland Demographics:

New York Times, 'Among the World's Most Dire Places':


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