[Crawford]

This goes to another issue - the disconnect between the market shortages and the prescriptions for the market shortages. For example, everyone agrees that SFHs on the Peninsula are absurdly priced and in great demand. However, multifamily housing on the Peninsula is much cheaper and often takes a while to sell.

This suggests that CA doesn't have a housing shortage, it has a SFH shortage, in desirable areas. So it appears to be an unfixable issue, unless you wish to make CA less desirable. Households aren't screaming for midrise condos up and down the El Camino Real, they want SFHs, and there's no way to add them.