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Bloomberg Opinion writer. Elected "top neoliberal shill" of 2018. Occasionally posts anime gifs.

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    1. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 20

      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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    2. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 20

      The third point - helping poor people buy houses - is exactly what @conorsen and I called for in a well-timed post shortly before Warren released her plan:https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-24/america-needs-policy-to-revive-the-dream-of-homeownership …

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    3. Sri Thiruvadanthai‏ @teasri Oct 20
      Replying to @Noahpinion @conorsen

      Helping people with affordable rent should be the goal. Germany does it very well. It helps with mobility and financial security. We need to get out of homeowner-mortgage-financial complex. High home prices are the bane of capitalism.

      7 replies 5 retweets 36 likes
    4. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 20
      Replying to @teasri @conorsen

      But it doesn't help with WEALTH.

      7 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
    5. Sri Thiruvadanthai‏ @teasri Oct 20
      Replying to @Noahpinion @conorsen

      Generating wealth via rising home prices is not helpful. Otherwise you suggesting that people can't save except thru home equity?

      5 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
    6. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 20
      Replying to @teasri @conorsen

      Did you read our post?

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    7. Sri Thiruvadanthai‏ @teasri Oct 20
      Replying to @Noahpinion @conorsen

      Yes, I did. Need to increase financial literacy and encourage responsible investing. Plus, government can offer subsidized higher rates on small savings accounts--financed with getting rid if mortgage deduction!

      2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
      Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 20
      Replying to @teasri @conorsen

      I mean, if we could use social wealth funds investing (partly) in real estate as a substitute for individual homeownership that would be amazing. But can we? In the meantime we need more houses in this country.

      9:21 AM - 20 Oct 2018
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        2. Sri Thiruvadanthai‏ @teasri Oct 20
          Replying to @Noahpinion @conorsen

          Agree. I will start a separate thread on this.

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        3. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 20
          Replying to @teasri @conorsen

          I mean, there are more dramatic, transformative things we could do. LVT (big tax on real estate capital gains with exemptions for development) to fund SWF (which invests partly in real estate). That would require a big overhaul of our system but it would be great.

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        4. Greg S.‏ @GS_CapSF Oct 20
          Replying to @Noahpinion @teasri @conorsen

          Garbage article. Banks were mandated to provide loans to the poor & the policies you are advocating sowed the seeds of the housing bubble. Vanguard/Fidelity provide almost zero cost funds. Wealth confiscation & death taxes will just change people’s behavior to get around it.

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        2. ValueTrap‏ @Valuetrap13 Oct 20
          Replying to @Noahpinion @teasri @conorsen

          No we don't. Not at all. We have some of the lowest density housing in the world. Said differently, housing square feet per capita in this country is huge vs globally.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. Paul Zablotny‏ @zablotny Oct 20
          Replying to @Valuetrap13 @Noahpinion and

          Here in San Diego we have a vast number of ghost properties - that is to say they are owned but no one lives there; especially in the downtown condo market. Brand new high rises sit mostly dark. Empty old bungalows dot the old neighborhoods because the inheritors don’t invest.

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        4. ValueTrap‏ @Valuetrap13 Oct 20
          Replying to @zablotny @Noahpinion and

          Overlaying the postwar experience in the US to the future makes little sense. We emerged from the war as a global hegemon, with 50% of "global GDP" with 4%+ of global population. Now 4.5% / 25% and declining. This is what the future looks like, IMO.pic.twitter.com/eD58QP2TrA

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        5. Sri Thiruvadanthai‏ @teasri Oct 20
          Replying to @Valuetrap13 @zablotny and

          Grandma and Grandpa move back in the lower floor--childcare problem solved, housing cost problems solved, labor supply problem solved, economic boom with low inflation, and social security problem solved. Need a change in mindset.

          4 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
        6. Conor Sen‏ @conorsen Oct 20
          Replying to @teasri @Valuetrap13 and

          “When Americans get rich, they purchase loneliness.”

          2 replies 5 retweets 21 likes
        7. Sri Thiruvadanthai‏ @teasri Oct 20
          Replying to @conorsen @Valuetrap13 and

          We struggle between escaping the tyranny of everyday interaction and soul destroying loneliness.

          1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
        8. Sam Bell‏ @sam_a_bell Oct 20
          Replying to @teasri @conorsen and

          tyranny of everyday interaction ---talking about the Fed on twitter=highest form of human satisfaction--- soul destroying loneliness

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        9. Tom Graff‏ @tdgraff Oct 20
          Replying to @sam_a_bell @teasri and

          If your friends don't want to debate monetary policy they aren't really your friends.

          0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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        1. Paweł Ropiak‏ @1rideofyourlife Oct 21
          Replying to @Noahpinion @teasri @conorsen

          That's called socialism. You're aware of that, right?

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