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You can easily get an affordable single-family house - it's just going to be a long, long way from your job because you'll have to drive through all the land taken up by less affordable single-family houses who want to pay extra to live closer to where everybody else is.

Because the population has increased over the course of fifty years. There's a limit to how many single-family houses you can build that are reasonably close to jobs.

California has a long way to go before it starts to become attractive.