Gavin Newsom: “We designed a system, a machine, over the course of the last…”

“… on more days, the cost of living, the issue of housing in this state, a state that frankly, had been dumb as we wanted to be for decades and decades. We designed a system, a machine, over the course of the last half century to make it more difficult to build. It was intentionally designed. It wasn't by chance. It wasn't by happenstance. It was designed not to build. And that required us not just to think differently and argue for different results, but to rebuild the machine.” (22:52–22:59)

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