Moaning About Housing Costs

Recent articles (Aug. 8) in The Times on Orange County housing prices have gone on and on about hypothetical affordability indices. What’s the point?

Of course we have very high housing prices in Orange County. (It took my family eight years to save up for the 29-year-old, three-bedroom house we bought two months ago.) But is there a better way than high prices to decide which of California’s roughly 25 million citizens will be able to live here?

Would you rather turn to the government to decide on the basis of “need”?

We’ve got a bargain here, contrasted with the cost of a house in San Francisco, New York, Tokyo or London. Imagine what our freeway congestion would be like if Orange County housing were really “affordable.”

Let’s stop moaning about how much houses cost. It’s called supply and demand.

ADRIAN D. LeROY

Rossmoor