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Gavin Newsom: California's Housing Crisis Is Its Original Sin

Published May 28, 2026 | Video Starts at 06:01

We've moved from a NIMBY mindset to a yimby mindset. And we have focused on an issue that candidly, and it's not an indictment of the previous governors. That wasn't a focus in the past. Homelessness and housing were not a focus of the state of California [in the past]. Over the last few decades, it's been outsourced to cities and counties. As a former city and county mayor, I can attest to that. (06:01–06:07)

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“A middle class family, for example, in state of Texas pays more in taxes than the state of California.”
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“We've graded about 1.6 million new startups, but less than 600,000 during that time in Texas.”
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“We're 18% of the globe's R and D in California.”
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“California is the only state...to regulate large language models, to regulate frontier models.”
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“We've created 5.5 million child savings accounts.”
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“We're as dumb as we want to be for decades and decades. Simply we're not creating enough [housing].”
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“The issues of homelessness, perfect example, a byproduct of the failure to build enough housing.”
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“Pushing boundaries on permitting reforms to a degree that few or no other states in the country have.”
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“I put my entire reputation by putting a housing package in the budget and threatened to actually veto the budget of the state.”
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“We've done a lot in the last few years [to address housing issues].”
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“We've done a massive amount of subsidies and affordable housing tax credits.”
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“One of the first actions I took, I created a housing accountability unit in the state.”
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“The first, one of the first acts I took as governor was suing [Huntington Beach].”
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“59% increase in the total number of housing construction since I started.”
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“56% Scott reduction in the time for permitting.”
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“Huntington beach, by the way, has lost their lawsuit. They're being fined because of their obstinance.”
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“We've moved from a NIMBY mindset to a yimby mindset.”
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“We've seen almost a double-digit decrease in unsheltered homeless in the state of California.”
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“The state had no homeless strategy, no homeless plan [six or seven years ago].”
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“Unprecedented mental health support, $6.38 billion.”
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“We created a third strategy called Care Court, which is about supportive care, not substituted care.”
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“I more than doubled [the tax credit program] to the second highest level in the United States, right below Georgia.”
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“California is now back in the game in a much more significant way [due to the doubling of the tax credit].”
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“State driven wealth tax capital moves. And we've seen that. It's not anecdotal.”
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“We've been a lot of headlines of folks that have moved outside of the state of California that are no longer taxpayers.”
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“We grew at 40% since I've been governor. There's no jurisdiction in the United States of America whose growth rate has been more significant…”
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“We have more Fortune 500 companies than we've had in close to two decades.”
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“California is the number one manufacturing state, number one state for farm.”
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“27% of California is foreign born or majority minority state.”
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“There is no Tesla without the regulations in California.”
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“We dominate in [clean energy] space because we don't want to be dominated by China in that space.”
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“18% of the world's R&D [is in California].”
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“106 billion last year of which 62% was reinvested in the state [California].”
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“We did so as it relates to transparency and safety.”
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“We have five specific strategies that we've advanced that I'm not aware that any other state has advanced.”
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“We're piloting employment insurance.”
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“We're looking at portable benefits radically differently.”
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“We have something called Secure California as it relates to retirement benefits.”
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“Looking at the payroll tax system that perversely rewards the exact thing we want to avoid.”
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“Looking more broadly at strategies...around universal basic capital.”
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“We did the Trump accounts six years ago before Trump ever did.”
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“We have a mechanism now, baby bonds.”
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“We're paying what, 21% more in airfare since the war, we're paying 18% more in energy since the war.”
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“We're paying 53.1% more for gasoline, $1.51 here in California, $1.55 on average across the United States.”
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“Throwing out the jcpoa, I think was foolish.”
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“Even Bibi is acknowledging that there's a timeline in terms of foreign aid, particularly coming from the United States.”
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“We brought a field hospital to Israel and eventually got it into Gaza.”
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“We provide $10,000 grants for service in return for 450 hours of service contribution.”
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“$20 for fast food workers criticized hourly in the Wall Street Journal ed board. And $25 for healthcare workers.”
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“20 states have $7.25 minimum wage and you and I are subsidizing those corporations with our tax dollars.”
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“Created something called Calrx in the spirit of single payer financing for drug purchases. $11 insulin is an example of that.”
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“We're subsidizing diapers for newborns in California.”
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“I think single payer is inevitable in the United States of America.”
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“10% of people owning 2/3 of the wealth. Those 10% owning 93% of the value of the stock market.”
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“Unless we democratize the economy, we will lose this republic.”
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“We owe it to people to own up to these trend lines and we've got to be much more aggressive and assertive.”
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“AMT along the lines you suggest exercising some real stepped up basis strategies that protect farmers, that protect small businesses and…”
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“Creating these 5.5 million in accounts, I put $1.9 billion, we had a big surplus one year.”
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“Creating these child savings accounts. Create a brand new grade pre K for all.”
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“Every child entered into kindergarten gets own savings and career account.”
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“Talk about doubling their income tax credit, creating a new foster care and child tax credit.”
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“We can talk about the healthcare expansions, the work we've done on the environment, the work we've done on our jobs plans, this amazing…”
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“As a leader of the fourth largest economy in the world, I have begun to address that in much more robust ways.”
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“I had to pull my daughter out of her school, and we had a... her eighth grade graduation was in our living room.”
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“That was the middle of my recall at the time.”
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