There are many places in California where it's easy to build housing. However, those places are not close to where the "more" or "less expensive" housing deman

There are many places in California where it's easy to build housing. However, those places are not close to where the "more" or "less expensive" housing demand is. To be a bit more precises, those places are at least an hour from the demand. Building in those places won't solve that problem. In addition to not understanding the constraints, the rant about "other countries can do big projects" suggest that the author thinks that the benefits of a solution are somehow an argument for its feasibility. It doesn't matter whether other countries can do something. The relevant question (for US/CA projects) is whether the US/CA can. It's fun to propose things, however, the actual value comes from doing, and the author is completely uninterested in fixing why the US/CA can't do big projects. (Hint: the Republicans/conservatives didn't screw up the Big Dig or CA's high speed rail project.)