To be clear support a lot of permitting reforms and understand that improvement within this system can and should occur. But it's hubris to think that any political-economic arrangement is immutable. Very ahistoric.
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Maybe not immutable, but having a realistic sense of the outer bounds of the plausible is an important skill. Talking about the downsides of market-based housing is like me talking how I should spend my salary as an NBA center. It's not technically impossible--the Knicks can call anytime--but c'mon.
A century is a long time. A century ago the automobile was a novelty. Anyone who thinks they can predict what change will occur over that time horizon is a charlatan. You may as well ask me who will win the world series in 2125.
Well if you make it high quality good and affordable they might especially if public subsidies to social housing lowered costs to the point where homeowners didn't assume indefinite housing value growth on private housing. You might just pick where you want to live for personal reasons.
Tanking the value of my home would be the best way to cause me to stay in it for as long as possible so that I don’t have to realize the loss of my initial investment. It would make me less likely to up and move into some fantastical amazing public housing, not more.
I think stuff like this gets at what Sam was actually speaking to. No one trusts YIMBYs because some pretend things like public housing are crazy pie in the sky ideas not even worth mentioning. I love YIMBYs that fight for social housing. Many think it is a serious topic.
I've testified in favor of many publicly-owned projects (in fact, I wrote a nasty email to the deputy mayor about one just this morning). But I don't think they're going to be a significant factor in the housing market, especially on a broad scale. Do you disagree?
The nice thing about housing is that the same reforms to zoning, building codes, review/regulations, etc. that open the way for more private housing also apply to public housing.
Yeah, I think we should probably give additional exemptions for public housing even beyond those normally proposed. But things like SFZ effectively make most public housing projects impossible.
Why on which part? For SFZ it is just that public housing is almost always multifamily homes, though it doesn't have to be. The reason I think public housing should get additional exemptions is because there exists more longterm democratic accountability around the property for things like env.
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