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sentences that state something as happening or true
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0 of 23 hedged
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As The California Post has reported, realtor.com estimates that there is a national housing gap of 4 million units.
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realtor.com → report → units
California’s political class has decided that the way to address that shortage is to build ugly urban high-rises.
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way → decide → rises
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Sign → sign → California
That’s the thrust of SB 79, the brainchild of state Sen. Scott Wiener, which overrides local governments and zoning regulations and allows the building of high-rise apartment buildings near transit hubs.
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which → ’ → hubs
But progress has been slow, and that’s partly because high-rise apartments are not anyone’s idea of what a long-term investment in housing should be.
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investment → ’ → housing
Californians, like other Americans, want single-family homes — homes with space, yards, driveways, privacy and the kind of pride of ownership that comes with a picket fence.
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that → want → fence
That’s not what left-wing policymakers want us to have.
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us → ’ → what
Ever since the 1960s, when Malvina Reynolds and Pete Seeger sang against “Little boxes made of ticky-tacky” that “all look just the same,” elite opinion has looked down on single-family homes.
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opinion → sing → homes
We are told that they are conformist, bad for the environment or even that they are symbols of white supremacy.
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they → tell → supremacy
But they remain central to the American dream, for people of all backgrounds.
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they → remain → backgrounds
Instead of finding ways to make high-rises attractive, California policymakers need to find ways to encourage the development of single-family homes.
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policymakers → find → homes
That means developing more capacity for water storage and energy production.
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That → mean → storage
It means building more roads and more public transportation routes — routes people will actually use, not high-speed-rail boondoggles.
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people → mean → roads
We can do it.
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We → do → it
We have the resources.
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We → have → resources
What we do lack is the political will — including the will to overcome California’s “green” orthodoxies.
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lack → lack → orthodoxies
California has plenty of space.
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California → have → space
But we have an aging infrastructure that is not going to be made any better by adding more high-rises in urban centers.
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that → have → centers
We need a 21st-century upgrade of the systems that made the 20th century possible.
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century → need → systems
We can do it while preserving our farms, our forests and our state’s magnificent parklands.
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We → do → farms
It would require many of us to rethink what we have been taught about suburbia.
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we → require → suburbia
We can reinvent it, with electric vehicle charging stations and high-speed internet connections and everything to keep people together even if we live further apart.
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we → reinvent → people
Let’s give it a chance.
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’s → let → chance
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