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California lawmakers have tried for 50 years to stem the state’s housing crisis. Here’s why they’ve failed.

Gov. Jerry Brown acted Tuesday to break up the scandal-plagued state Board of Equalization.

Progressive activists are angry with Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon who shelved a proposal to creates a single-payer healthcare system in California, calling it “woefully incomplete.”

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