Elizabeth Warren's YIMBY plan: 1. Block grants to cities that reduce zoning restrictions 2. Subsidies for affordable housing 3. Down payment assistance to help poor people buy houses 4. More policing of lending discrimination https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/elizabeth-warrens-fix-americas-housing-crisis/571210/ … I like it.
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Sounds dangerously close to redlining.
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That's one of several things I'm worried about.
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You're kidding, right? This is explicitly the opposite.
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Not at all, it depends on how you define "productive area". And for that matter the productive areas of one time period don't necessarily equal the productive areas of another time period. Exposes people to a lot of risk over time.
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That is true! But what we really mean is buy poor people houses in neighborhoods somewhat more upscale than their current ones.
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