“We have a housing and homelessness crisis because blue cities and states have, for decades, accepted a status quo under which it is effectively illegal to meet rising demand for more homes.” resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/blue-citie... - ThreadSky

ryanlcooper.com • 114 days ago

“We have a housing and homelessness crisis because blue cities and states have, for decades, accepted a status quo under which it is effectively illegal to meet rising demand for more homes.” https://resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/blue-cities-and-states-need-to-get-their-act-together

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fiftysixspecial.bsky.social•114 days ago

Blue states should just form collations and mutual defense agreements; we’re going back to fifty separate nations again, might as well get ahead of it and make a constitution that doesn’t grenade itself

pokepocalypse.bsky.social•112 days ago

This is an appealing idea. There's already the beginnings of one with the NPVIC.

christophereasttn.bsky.social•114 days ago

I live East TN and have been here my entire life. This state has been a Republican stronghold for decades and we are experiencing a housing and homelessness crisis as well. Not sure that your thesis holds up that it has been created by a blue city status quo.

pokepocalypse.bsky.social•112 days ago

Lots of homelessness (including abandoned building fires), in Phoenix. It's a bit of a blue city in a purple state.

pokepocalypse.bsky.social•112 days ago

No shortage of places to build. Just water.

worldcitizen1994.bsky.social•113 days ago

Any comment on problems in the GOP states? Any?

bluehale.bsky.social•114 days ago

We need to figure out how to pound into the mind of the average Liberal in blue states who'd go full on NIMBY that if they don't allow more housing to be built, people will flock to cheaper places like Texas taking a couple of blue state electoral votes with them to their new homes.

factsnotfiction.bsky.social•111 days ago

Dems can win when they go talk to the rural folk and listen to their problems.

phil.co•114 days ago

People like their property values more than they like helping the homeless. If you increase supply, then prices go down, and property owners get mad. And this applies to "blue cities" as much as red ones, though I've never seen a big city that isn't liberal, since that's why people like big cities.

mkwilson27.bsky.social•114 days ago

Still waiting for one of these guys to explain how you build more affordable housing on expensive land in a capitalist economy.

jeboyt.bsky.social•114 days ago

Volume and filtering

grandmasterfei.bsky.social•114 days ago

You build more market rate housing by loosening zoning restrictions in that land. More supply means the market rate comes down and there’s more turnover of the older housing stock that new families can afford.

mkwilson27.bsky.social•114 days ago

Not in my experience. Looser zoning makes land more valuable. It also encourages tearing down cheap houses to build multiple market-rate homes on that lot.
For example, when Vancouver allowed ADUs, developers would buy $800k tear down, build mansion + ADU and sell for $2.5M.

andredarmanin.bsky.social•114 days ago

This article has a lot of flaws. While I agree that "Blue" cities and states have an opportunity to shine, they haven't accomplished much. The article is oversimplified, lacks intersectionality and lacks international examples of successful inclusive cities.

yeoldeofframpinn.bsky.social•103 days ago

That’s exactly what the article said. I would say that’s the whole point of the article.

jeboyt.bsky.social•114 days ago

We have domestic examples that are showing success: Minneapolis, Austin, etc. But, in Austin we had a group of NIMBY, Boomer Dems form a “Democrats for” in support of a Republican because they liked her opposition to land use reforms. Thankfully, she lost.

andredarmanin.bsky.social•114 days ago

Doesn't answer my post, but thanks for coming out.

andredarmanin.bsky.social•114 days ago

Congestion pricing in NY hasn't gone anywhere. While LA has expanded their transit network, they still have congestion issues. Why can't they be like London or Singapore? Then of course housing and homelessness are not only American issues but they're also global.

leefranke.bsky.social•114 days ago

So red states don't have a housing shortage as well? That's weird as I live in a red state and we have a housing shortage.

schizachyrium.bsky.social•114 days ago

not quite at the same level no, and red states have to deal with rising populations while blue states have a housing shortage with stagnant or falling populations.

worldcitizen1994.bsky.social•113 days ago

They have tons of serious social/economic problems, but the corporate MSM ignores that.

swoletariat.bsky.social•114 days ago

Moved to SF from central California and was surprised to find out that SFUSD didn't even have a functioning payroll, so now my wife commutes an hour so she can work at a district that actually pays people the correct amount on time.

ryanlcooper.com•114 days ago

the very most basic shit that people figured out in like ancient Sumer. it’s appalling

granny2026.bsky.social•112 days ago

Most homeless people go into larger cities, most red cities are in rural areas. Not all. I live in Vegas and during the pandemic we had a migration of homeless people come into the city. I’m unsure if it has increased since then. For some of these people it’s their way of living. Very hard situation

granny2026.bsky.social•112 days ago

Homeless will always be an issue, because people’s rights. It is very hard when they don’t want it. In my city we have programs I n which any homeless person can go into the program get housing, food and job training, the only requirement is no drugs or alcohol. And still have a homeless crisis!

granny2026.bsky.social•112 days ago

We have a housing shortage in my state because foreign buyers buying up properties for rentals, my thought is with the housing shortage they should implement a ban on foreign buyers, what do you think?

aquagyrl.bsky.social•114 days ago

Stop blaming immigrants. Hedge funds, investment firms, other corporations are buying much of the available housing and keeping it off the market. That's why we have a shortage. It has nothing to do with immigrants and everything to do with corporate greed.

some0neelse.bsky.social•112 days ago

Also remember, Boomers have also been reverse mortgaging their homes to keep up with the gap between their retirement and cost of living, meaning that their homes don’t go back into the market when they die.

fandabbydosy.bsky.social•114 days ago

If you're cold they're cold bring them inside

susanhendrick.bsky.social•114 days ago

Jesse Waters basically said the homeless are lazy and on their death bed. Homelessness has an about to become illegal and they will solve the problem just like Hitler solved problems of undesirables.

pdxblake.bsky.social•114 days ago

Zoning, red tape around permitting and things that give NIMBY voices the ability to veto projects are huge barriers. And the current concern about inflows caused by Trump policies in red states are going to be trivial compared to what's coming from climate change.

marktime.bsky.social•114 days ago

Sounds like NIMBYism is not just a "Red" issue.

odeecs.bsky.social•114 days ago

teleportnow.bsky.social•114 days ago

Again, a complicated situation without easy answers. Roads, sewers, water lines and availability, drainage, environmental hazards, traffic, public services all need to be provided and paid for. It’s more than Nimby.

glassbro.bsky.social•114 days ago

That's why God invented taxes. They pay for cool things like infrastructure.

teleportnow.bsky.social•114 days ago

Yeah. Good luck getting Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to pony up.

glassbro.bsky.social•114 days ago

They don't live in my town or state, so they don't pay property or income taxes here. That doesn't mean we shouldn't build more cool stuff here.

jesrcerulean.bsky.social•114 days ago

My neighborhood outside of Lacey, WA, which was farms and timberland well into the 60s, 1/2 acre lots in the 70s, 1/4 acre lots in the 80s and zero-lot-line single family 90s on, with apartment infill everywhere, and no way to increase road access because of geological limitations.

schizachyrium.bsky.social•114 days ago

new construction and residents pay for that, it’s not that big a deal or complicated. if texas and florida can figure it out, so can california and new york.

teleportnow.bsky.social•114 days ago

Florida has terrific housing issues right now. Homeowners insurance is unaffordable or unavailable. Texas has tons of buildable land but struggles to provide utilities. Every state has unique challenges to accomplishing the goal.

schizachyrium.bsky.social•114 days ago

and in all cases, simply building more housing is part of the solution to there being not enough housing or tax revenue. california has already tried being progressive without building enough housing and has failed.

teleportnow.bsky.social•114 days ago

The only thing I disagree with about your commentary is the word ‘simply.’

chuckie512.bsky.social•114 days ago

The more people living on each mile of those, the cheaper it is for everyone.

ailimck.bsky.social•111 days ago

NIMBYism is bipartisan

nhdoglover.bsky.social•114 days ago

In other words, we need an answer to Republican's Americans for Prosperity. A grassroots system that goes hard starting at driving our agenda at the local level.

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