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From rampant homelessness in San Francisco, Calif., to skyrocketing prices in Salt Lake City, Utah, and bidding wars in Spokane, Wash., the United States is in the throes of a housing crisis. Economists tend to say the root cause is development restrictions limiting new construction, especially of smaller, more affordable housing. As two partners in a wealth management firm put it on CNBC.com late last month, “There has simply been a large mismatch between the supply of and demand for housing, a

Region is used in agriculture. people like to look at las vegas and say that's the source of the problem here. las vegas is using 2% of the water here. >> what could be done? we know it's going to be a dry season out west. there have been a lot of federal government preparations meeting with the western governs and all of this. this issue of dealing with -- are we going to see not just water restrictions but see development restrictions and building restrictions? >> not in the short term, i don't i had. it's important to remember there are two things going on in the southwest. there's the drou...