Adam Carolla appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast this weekend and the two spent a fair amount of time talking about the ridiculously slow rebuilding process almost a year after wildfires ravaged Los Angeles.
Rogan brought up the prophetic rant that Carolla did right after the fires, where he predicted that the permitting process would be a nightmare for anyone who wanted to rebuild.
He also describes what people are being put through if they want to rebuild, including massive foundation posts drilled deep into the ground and which cost a fortune.
At one point, Adam says:
The thing that I’ve always known is, I’ve always known how burdensome regulation is in Los Angeles and it’s invisible, and that’s why we don’t have housing and that’s why houses are so expensive, and that’s why there’s no homeless shelters and housing and all that stuff, is because it’s so burdensome to build. They make it so difficult to build that people don’t build.
And I knew what was coming but other people didn’t really know it because they’ve not dealt with the city, plan check, regulations, plan approval, engineering, like this is stuff I’ve been doing my whole life, so I knew early on that this wasn’t gonna happen. And I think people who live in Los Angeles are sort of naive, like they just think the coastal commission and city council and plan check, building and safety, like they’re there just to facilitate this stuff but they’re not there to facilitate any of it, they’re there to deter it.
They want you to go away, is basically what it is, so I knew none of this was gonna happen.
Carolla goes on to make the point that the city makes it so expensive and over-regulated that people just give up and move away. He is absolutely right about this, all of it. His predictions last January were spot on, in fact.
Watch the whole exchange below:
The rebuilding process in California is a joke and the media is actively ignoring it because they know California Governor Gavin Newsom is planning to run for president in 2028. If Newsom was a Republican, CNN would run a nightly graphic showing how slow and ineffective the rebuilding process has been but since he is a Democrat, he gets a pass.
It’s just amazing that the people of California continue to put up with it.
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