California is cooked. The state has no way to accurately price if housing construction in the marina is positive EV. The only kind of yimby policies that can work is preventing the marina voters from blocking construction in San Jose or San Jose from forcing construction in the marina. Each city needs to decide if they want to be a boom town on their own. Boom towns should be raising property taxes and maximizing construction and spending the money on improving family infrastructure, schools, healthcare, whatever the locals want. But they can’t, prop 13 won’t let them raise taxes, and the centralized state government controls the spending on the infrastructure. Thats how you end up with the progressive death loop. No local decision making, no self selection, everything is slopified.