John Husing Quotations

What you're seeing in the office market is that there is more demand for office space than there is space. The market is very, very strong.

It is much more of a local draw. The races are less popular. That is part of the problem.

Look at the population pyramid and look at where land is available. From here forward, the housing that's going to be built in Southern California will have to happen here ... I don't see a limit.

What that tells you I think is that people in Riverside County are having to make a bigger stretch.

Sooner or later we need to have an intelligent conversation about infrastructure. Imagine the economy today if, 50 years ago, we didn't invest in the interstate freeway system.

This is one of the consequences of the permanent loss of manufacturing jobs to Asia. In the past, that sector was the route to upward income mobility for marginally educated workers.

This is a national problem being dumped on Southern California.

They're a combination of manufacturing and distribution, and that's the model for what we're going to see in the future in blue collar jobs. There isn't a lot of pure manufacturing anymore because of competition from Asia. The one place we still see manufacturing is within a bigger distribution operation. We're going to see more of this.

It was a very successful program at that time. Students graduated from that program and went to work in management positions for the local retail stores.

In one sense, these exurbs are just suburbs that take a longer time to drive to. With these, white flight has nothing to do with it. It's all housing prices. The makeup of these communities is a reflection of who's migrating, and that's people who have enough money to be middle class.

If it works the way everyone thinks it will, we should be OK.

I completely disagree with him. It's more efficient for companies to operate warehouses here because it cuts lead time and errors.

The industry is crucial. It is one of the main blue-collar sectors that we need to depend on.