San Francisco Chronicle, August 30, 2009 by Jared Huffman and Ethan Elkind
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/30/IN7Q19E409.DTL
The real estate collapse has masked the existence of a severe housing shortage in California. While developers have oversupplied single-family detached homes with backyards, buyers looking for a home within walking distance of jobs, services, good schools, parks and public transit have few options in this state…. The primary roadblock to this development is local land-use policies.