Time to place that SF Chronicle article from 1978 again about the time that @jerrybrowngov warned us that if we passed Prop. 13, we wouldn’t have free public university tuition anymore in California. https://twitter.com/kimmaicutler/status/1070204442966818817?s=21 …https://twitter.com/ptraughber/status/1078743970388144128 …
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The problem is that the people that live there very likely couldn't afford the higher taxes. I know that we would have had to move when I became unable to work if not for Prop 13, and we just live in a 70s tract home in Orange County.
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Replying to @estarianne @kimmaicutler and
What we really need to do is figure out a way to make land less of a profit center, because that is making it hard to survive in CA.
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I shall repeat for the 50,000th time— other states have low-income and senior exemptions and deferrals. There is no reason that this also had to cover Disneyland and Beverly Hills Golf Courses.
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We are not low income or senior, but thanks for assuming I didn't know what I was talking about.
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When you require people to get approval from the authorities to continue to live in their house, you're marginalizing people.
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Especially since your *example* is a home in which a high 6 figure income would be required to keep up with the taxes.
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Sorry if I came off too flippantly, I was in the middle of cooking a large meal for extended family. Land is a wedge. We are marginalizing people in either scenario. In the current scenario, as you said, we tilt the playing field toward land profits/returns too much, which
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Marginalizes those who do not own land, who given the history of America’s racialized housing policy, generally are people of color, tenants, etc. we also sacrifice the young because we don’t have a good, in fact we have the 180 opposite of the way most cities have densified,
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Added housing as they’ve added population.
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