I've always tried to think of ways to bring down housing costs. Houses should be places to live, not investments. Just like high gold prices right now are too expensive for people that actually use gold, if you took the speculation out of the housing market, housing prices might actually be affordable for people that need a house just for living in.
The economic downturn combined with my planned move to Marin County (and knowing that it would be difficult to afford to buy a house here) had me writing a letter to the Mono County Board of Supervisors last year. I proposed
