https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-stalled-population-growth/ https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-stalled-population-gro... . A clear majority of Californi

https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-stalled-population-growth/ https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-stalled-population-gro... . A clear majority of California's population growth in the past 1, 2, and 3 decades is natural growth, not migration. What's interesting is that it is a result of international immigration into the state and domestic emigration from the state. Regardless of that, though, an international immigrant or a native californian still consume housing. The housing shortage is not caused by immigration. Certainly you could make the argument that if not for immigrants to the US settling in California it would result in less population growth here, but I think a housing policy which can't even keep up with very little net migration is broken.