The root cause is demand > supply. That's it. Everything gets more expensive, and those who can get paid a lot do, and everyone else has to make do.
Texas yes, but tell me about Austin... and how it has all the same problems of the bay area now, entirely because people moved there.
It’s also about what kind of industries each state chooses to cultivate. Economies based on knowledge work magnify class and racial disparities because they have high barriers to entry and tend to produce winner-take-all stratification. That directly produces the highly stratified and segregated environment you see in SF and NYC.
If person A leaves a location because of crap/idiotic policies/laws, moves to a new location, then votes in people that will institute those same crap/idiotic policies/laws the just fled again, is person A not the problem?
Look at the places people are moving to in Texas then look at those locations elections.
In this case I was thinking primarily of crime and some of the DA in Texas's big cities. Dallas in particular I remember a DA was elected that pissed off a lot of people on the right by stopping prosecution of lesser offences and setting low bails. The right argues that leads to more crime until its a common place.
Austin is liberal like SF and is known for restricting housing supply.
2.3 million people live in Houston, and only a million live in Austin yet Houston is far cheaper to live in than Austin.
Austin you say? Now just where did all those people in Austin come from one wonders...