Matt Mahan

I think that's a much bigger driver of opportunity and upward mobility, the quality of our public schools.

I think there are other policy areas where we can have much more impact for people than worrying about

who's gotten wealthy by building a business and how wealthy they are.

Not that they shouldn't pay their fair share, but I think that we're sort of focusing on the easy target versus solving the bigger, more structural issues that really matter for people.

I think it's a confluence of a few factors.

One, we have a shortage of housing supply.

So that's a whole bucket we should talk about, which is we don't build the housing that we need.

We have been under building for decades.

And when we do build, we build at a very expensive cost per square foot.

It is just, we're not, you can't have affordable housing if you can't build the housing affordably.

And so we can get into that.

That's a whole area of 50 years of

layers of public policy decisions that have ultimately yielded a broken housing market.

Number two, we have a crisis of untreated addiction and mental illness in California, which kind of famously, and everybody blames Reagan, but at some point we're going to have to take responsibility for the fact that we have not rebuilt the mental health system in our state.

And so we've had a lack of treatment capacity, treatment beds for addiction and mental illness.

And more recently, fentanyl and meth are

are much more potent, widely available, cheaper, and accessible than, say, heroin was in the 80s.

I mean, there's a real crisis around that.

And then there's this third thing, which is people always talk about the weather.

There is some truth to this.