I'd question wether the growth in places like Nampa is healthy, but overall I'm fine with growth in smaller cities even if I prefer conscientious development. What exactly are you proposing? - ThreadSky

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malevolentmango.bsky.social • 55 days ago

I'd question wether the growth in places like Nampa is healthy, but overall I'm fine with growth in smaller cities even if I prefer conscientious development.

What exactly are you proposing?

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ymroddi.bsky.social•55 days ago

Policies that move the good jobs to areas with cheaper building costs. Every level of gov't has spent decades influencing where the jobs have gone with hundreds of different policies. Biden did it with IRA policies.
Also, you can build denser in these small cities.

malevolentmango.bsky.social•55 days ago

Can you be more specific? Do you actually want to uproot existing jobs? Or just offer selective incentives?

ymroddi.bsky.social•55 days ago

Both. Everything that can be done. Experiment with new ways to do it. We are mostly talking about desk jobs which are very easy to move. Several companies have moved their HQs in the past few years without problem. I would prefer that big companies open offices in more places.

ymroddi.bsky.social•55 days ago

In my view, we have spent 20+ years concentrating economic opportunity in a hand full of big cities and we need to figure out a way to undo that. Doing so, will go a long way to solving our housing issues. I don't think there is solution to housing without doing it.

malevolentmango.bsky.social•55 days ago

What I don't understand is what jobs or the people in big cities have to do with building more housing and lowering prices in smaller cities and towns.

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