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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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 …15 replies 16 retweets 98 likesShow this thread -
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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.
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But it doesn't help with WEALTH.
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Does the state exist to make people wealthy?
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Yes.
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