Housing currently controlled at the local level by default, resulting in all those problems. Efforts to move things to the State level in California are ongoing and have hit or miss.
The problem is that since housing has been managed at the local level for so long, finding a coherent State level solution is hard and moreover, wealthy interests have influence at the state level also.
The problem is that since housing has been managed at the local level for so long, finding a coherent State level solution is hard and moreover, wealthy interests have influence at the state level also.