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    1. Jackson Strong‏ @Jackson_Strong_ Jun 11
      Replying to @drooliet @380kmh

      Sounds like you chose to live in a very expensive place. If they set rents at just the cost of maintenance and utilities (you're also forgetting insurance & taxes) there would be lines and shortages of housing, and only incumbent renters would benefit. Your area needs supply!

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    2. Juliet Helldread  🦉 🌹 🚇 💄 🚲‏ @drooliet Jun 11
      Replying to @Jackson_Strong_ @380kmh

      I’m very well aware that Boston needs supply; they’ve been underbuilding for decades. I applied to postgrad jobs in cheaper cities (like Minneapolis, Baltimore, and philly) and all of them ignored or rejected my apps, but my first job offer was in Boston so of course I took it.

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    3. Juliet Helldread  🦉 🌹 🚇 💄 🚲‏ @drooliet Jun 11
      Replying to @drooliet @Jackson_Strong_ @380kmh

      I would’ve loved to *choose* a cheaper city to live in! But none of those cities *chose* me by giving me an employment offer!!! structural-level housing issues can’t be solved by telling recent college grads to “move somewhere cheaper”

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    4. Jackson Strong‏ @Jackson_Strong_ Jun 11
      Replying to @drooliet @380kmh

      you're point completely ignores my subsequent tweet. But on this particular point, there are much cheaper places to be had in boston! https://www.trulia.com/p/ma/boston/15-holden-st-boston-ma-02125--1086041212 … 3 bedroom for 2,100, near the train.... so again, yeah, your choice

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    5. Juliet Helldread  🦉 🌹 🚇 💄 🚲‏ @drooliet Jun 11
      Replying to @Jackson_Strong_ @380kmh

      unfortunately I work in Arlington and would love to not have a 2 hour commute, but thanks for assuming I don’t know how to use Zillow

      1 reply 0 retweets 18 likes
    6. Jackson Strong‏ @Jackson_Strong_ Jun 11
      Replying to @drooliet @380kmh

      point being, if you drop rents to utilities, insurance, taxes, maintenance, you're only going to create long lines and shortages. The price controls are not what is going to provide more housing and lower costs

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    7. Jackson Strong‏ @Jackson_Strong_ Jun 11
      Replying to @Jackson_Strong_ @drooliet @380kmh

      the area you live in obviously has high demand. If you bring rents down to very low levels, you'll only create a massive shortage and virtually nobody will be able to get housing. So when you accepted your job offer, you would be commuting from much further than South Boston

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    8. Juliet Helldread  🦉 🌹 🚇 💄 🚲‏ @drooliet Jun 11
      Replying to @Jackson_Strong_ @380kmh

      People are *already* being displaced in huge numbers and affordable housing/voucher waitlists have tens of thousands of names on them...what you’re describing is already the status quo for so many people in high demand cities

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    9. Jackson Strong‏ @Jackson_Strong_ Jun 11
      Replying to @drooliet @380kmh

      and what your advocating for will drastically exacerbate this problem. Public policy has made the cost of housing much higher. If your goal is to reduce the private equity in housing, the solution would instead to impose high ad valorem taxes on the value of land

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    10. Jackson Strong‏ @Jackson_Strong_ Jun 11
      Replying to @Jackson_Strong_ @drooliet @380kmh

      and use that revenue to expand & improve its mass transit network, opening up other parts of the region for convenient commutes, easing pressures on housing costs. But the price controls you describe will only exacerbate instead of improve the housing situation

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      Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jun 11
      Replying to @Jackson_Strong_ @drooliet

      chill chill you guys are more on the same side here than u think; I'm sure Jules will verify support for land value taxes, better mass transit, and landuse/zoning regulatory overhaul to eliminate land-wasting, cost-inflating policies

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        2. Juliet Helldread  🦉 🌹 🚇 💄 🚲‏ @drooliet Jun 11
          Replying to @380kmh @Jackson_Strong_

          Yes I am very much in favor of all those things! I’m guessing because i’m a woman with a rose emoji in my bio it’s a little easier to assume the worst in me 💁‍♀️

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        3. Jackson Strong‏ @Jackson_Strong_ Jun 11
          Replying to @drooliet @380kmh

          please, if I assumed you weren't intelligent why would I even waste my time tweeting?? There are a # of tenants that pay very low rent, even lower than the operating costs with vouchers based on their income. You could expand that program

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        4. Jackson Strong‏ @Jackson_Strong_ Jun 11
          Replying to @Jackson_Strong_ @drooliet @380kmh

          but if you just set rents at just the operational costs, you 1. create significant shortages 2. quality of housing will be significantly lower, no new investment in existing housing stock A better way to extract equity is land value taxes if that's your goal

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        5. Juliet Helldread  🦉 🌹 🚇 💄 🚲‏ @drooliet Jun 11
          Replying to @Jackson_Strong_ @380kmh

          Under the current paradigm it would be impossible to set rent at just operating costs bc people buy properties to rent them out and make a profit. In a better world, there’d be no profit motive to begin with. I *am* a socialist after all. (I’m also pro-LVT for what it’s worth)

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        6. Mark Mollineaux  🦀 🔰 🌹 🌐‏ @bufordsharkley Jun 11
          Replying to @drooliet @Jackson_Strong_ @380kmh

          LVT is all about eliminating profit, too. I'm perhaps skeptical of creating a world where the profit *motive* disappears: I instead dream of a world in which craven greed finds precious few outlets.

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