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samalcorn.bsky.social • 9 days ago

People in positions of power or privilege (like being able to attend a hearing in the middle of the day, or any time of the day for that matter) naturally want to maintain the status quo. Many have grown accustomed to the built environment around them remaining static.

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samalcorn.bsky.social•9 days ago

Let planners plan! Let municipal governments focus on the things that would improve quality of life of their citizens, and not be opposed to having new citizens.

samalcorn.bsky.social•9 days ago

Of course, with Prop 13, there’s pretty much no incentive for munis in California to increase their population. The ghost of Howard Jarvis strikes again. Don’t do it, Texas! Don’t do it, all the other states!

samalcorn.bsky.social•9 days ago

Eliminating Prop 13 would not solve every problem with California, but it’s the root of so many of our problems.
I can’t help but think eliminating it would improve SO many things about this state.

samalcorn.bsky.social•9 days ago

Anyway, the point is that the systems are what need to change. People will naturally oppose change to the environment around them. So if you build a system to provide veto levers that anyone can pull, of course you’re not going to get an abundance of housing.

samalcorn.bsky.social•9 days ago

If you limit property taxes, of course you’re going to get perverse second- and third-order effects over the years.

And yet, somehow politicians in other states look at those 4+ decades of bad 💩 in California and say, “I want that for my state!”

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