In Los Angeles, housing production remains near a 10-year low. In an opinion column for Voice of San Diego, Ricardo Flores, executive director of LISC [Local Initiatives Support Corporation] San Diego, described a grim budget outlook. The city of San Diego faces a projected $110 million deficit, the county is forecasting a $138.5 million deficit and San Diego Unified School District is projecting a $47 million shortfall. Taken together, the debates playing out in Los Angeles, San Diego and Sacramento highlight a central contradiction in California housing policy. As Zwick argued in the Los Angeles Times, the defining question is no longer whether cities understand how to build more homes.