Opinion: We are the problem in California’s housing shortage
Everything everyone — by which I mean the wrong ones, the NIMBYs — says about housing in Southern California is always wrong. … Fact: Take your average Southland single-family homestead, raze it and replace it with an eight-unit apartment building, and you’d be … saving water. That’s because, even in our xeriscaped age, unless you have Astroturfed your entire yard, your landscaping uses a lot more water than your sinks, shower and dishwasher do.
-Written by Larry Wilson, a member of the Southern California News Group editorial board.