You're pointing out another really bad side effect of Prop 13. Local communities have less tax incentive to allow higher density, since property taxes are cappe

You're pointing out another really bad side effect of Prop 13. Local communities have less tax incentive to allow higher density, since property taxes are capped. On the other hand, they are strongly incentivized to overbuild office space and retail, since they can increase sales taxes. In other words, if Prop 13 were repealed, communities would have more reason to allow housing construction (since the resulting housing could be taxed more). The result of your policy is not only increased cost of housing and underdevelopment, but higher sales taxes as well. If California had a more healthy proportion of property taxes, then sales taxes wouldn't be forced up to nearly 10% to fund government.