Ezra Klein

It pushes them to prefer retail and commercial building over residential building.

It pushes against homeowner selling because it sells to lose what is effectively a tax break.

I know Prop 13 is popular.

It's easy for me to sit here and talk about it.

But you say you're willing to do the unpopular things to fix the housing crisis.

Why doesn't Prop 13 reform one of them?

Am I misreading your campaign site?

So walk me through how you would fix that tax system.

Well...

Big pardon?

Walk me through how you would fix that tax system.

How do we fix it?

Yeah, as you're saying, you want to do it more comprehensively than Prop 13 reform.

Great.

So it sounds like you want to move the line on property taxes.

You think the system is not working as it currently stands?

The system's not working, yes.

And how then does that give you some movement on fees, right?

We've heard a couple of the candidates on the stage talk about the various fees that are layered on in part because of the way property taxes work.

Can you describe what impact fees are for people who are not as deep in the weeds on this?