Ezra Klein

Why does it take so long here and what would you do about it?

There's a difficult irony you see not only in that study, but it comes up again and again in my own housing reporting.

There is no form of housing the Democrats feel more strongly about, support more unanimously than affordable housing.

Affordable housing costs more to construct per square foot than market rate housing does.

When you look at that same study that we are hyping up here on the stage,

What you see is that it costs about twice per, it costs twice as much to construct a square foot of market rate housing in California as in Texas, four times as much to do a square foot of affordable housing as market rate housing in Texas.

Now that affordable housing is being built partly on the public dime.

Why is it so much more expensive here to do affordable housing than market rate?

What do you do about it?

When you say the other candidates are going backwards on labor, what do you mean?

Thank you, Ms.

Porter.

Mayor Mahan, San Jose has been able to approve over 20,000 new homes for construction, most of which did not get built because the economics didn't work out.

What could Sacramento do to get those 20,000 homes built?

But there's still a number of big projects that have not been able to go forward because the economics aren't working for you.

What could you do as governor to make it work for cities like San Jose?

Thank you, Mr. Mahan.

Mr. Villaraigosa, your campaign site defends Prop 13, California's cap on property taxes.

You talk about holding the line on property taxes.

Prop 13 pushes cities to raise fees on new housing because they aren't collecting enough in property taxes to pay the bills.