Letters to the Editor — Water shortage, housing, homelessness, short-term rentals

Readers agree Texas needs to focus on a possible water shortage; support rental housing; offer suggestions to help the homeless; and support zoning against short-term rentals.12:30 AM on Jan 27, 2023 CSTRe: “Texas may face shortage of water — Expert: Conservation needed as state grows,” Sunday business story.

The failure by the businesses relocating to Texas to understand the looming water shortage calamity also adds to the problem. Most of Texas has been a semi-arid desert, as we were reminded of by the Dust Bowl, but Texas still suffers from a water hole mentality. Canyon Lake provides water to much of the area, and the water service to the area is provided by a California public-traded company named San Jose Water under the NYSE ticker symbol SJW. Its main source of revenue comes from the San Jose Water system.

Housing deregulation is perhaps our country’s lowest hanging fruit to increasing economic growth and unlocking opportunities for millions. In a 2019 economics paper by Tai Hsieh and Enrico Moretti, the authors found that housing constraints in just a few of America’s highest productivity cities have caused aggregate growth to be more than a third lower than what it could have been.

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