Children often need to be protected from their own parents and this fact is broadly accepted by Californians, which is why the people express via their legislature their disdain for reactionary ideas from red states.
So do I. Not only do I live here but I grew up here. Roughly 40 years. I respectfully disagree with you.
With all the homeless people, housing crisis and companies and people moving out of California largely because of government policies I'd say the government is doing a bad job.
Land use policy is the main driver for cost of living and homelessness. It has little to do with state gov policy (if anything state level policy is focused on fixing the problems over the objections of small cities) and it has nothing to do with execution by state agencies. Housing is not expensive because the gov is somehow incompetent.
