Katie Porter

Because if housing isn't your biggest expense, it's probably because you've got little kids and you've got child care.

I'm focusing on college tuition.

That's a really big piece.

So you can't nibble around the edges of affordability.

But look, we are also facing population loss.

We are not retaining our own working age people.

Our state is kind of demographically aging pretty rapidly.

If you look at the 10 cities in the United States that are aging most rapidly, like six or seven of them are in California, and there are big cities.

So we do need to say to people who are coming out of college, who are coming out of apprenticeship programs, who are like five years, 10 years on the job, stay here.

Stay here because we're going to let you.

And they're often earlier in their earnings.

They're often those below 100,000 people.

They've got a lot of student loan debt.

They've got a lot of child care expense.

They're the ones who are suffering on housing.

Right.

So it's not an either or.

I think it's an all of the above.

But I do think it's really important for government to own.

directly some of what we put on families.