Demand Honesty from Anti-Housing Elites

 By Joe Coto, Herman Gallegos & Jennifer Hernandez, The San Diego Union-Tribune

A aerial view of houses in the San Diego neighborhood of Clairemont on Friday, Dec. 8, 2017. (U-T)

During the drought, the Sierra Club didn’t demand expelling our teenagers to save water.

Yet when it comes to climate change, that’s how advocates and state bureaucrats have rigged greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction mandates. Exporting people is a GHG reduction in California, even though families moving to Texas or Arizona for affordable housing more than double their GHG, and experts agree that reducing global GHG emissions is what’s needed. (A California Air Resources Board executive finally admitted its GHG accounting was “flawed” last year.)

If climate change was the real goal of the Sierra Club and its luxury spa partner as they batter San Diego County’s Climate Action Plan in multiple lawsuits, they would try to keep Californians (and their children and their jobs) in low-carbon California, instead of relentlessly pursuing NIMBY tactics.

​They would embrace increasing our housing supply and restore rents and home prices to levels working families can afford. Instead, their “solution” to the housing crisis is to build only rental multistory apartments (which cost three to six times more to build than California’s traditional starter homes) — and order everyone to ride the bus.

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