"We like our city as it is and don't want it to grow."

Soon followed by

"We can't afford to live in our city because rich people are outbidding us for the very limited housing."

Same story as everywhere else. You make your bed, you sleep in it.

And this part is hilarious but telling:

> Homeless is a problem but Santa Cruz tries to handle it a progressive way, for example, by setting up the homeless camp next to the courthouse and providing it with services

Setting up slum cities is now the standard of progressiveness in America.