But that's boring actual infrastructure that's less likely to get municipal officials to prostrate before him
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this is a situation where the options are all crazy. You have to figure out how to politically restrict people from living in large swaths of California, underground lines at hundreds of billions of dollars or Elon.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @MatttttttttB and
Seems like the correct approach is to let electricity rates and fire insurance rates reflect the real costs of living in such areas, and let people choose whether to leave or absorb the costs.
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Replying to @cjg2127 @kimmaicutler and
That's a cruel thing to do to mostly low-income people who might not have anywhere else to go where they can afford to live. Some renters in Paradise were paying $400/mo rent, almost half of their $900/mo SocSec check. Can we build some affordable housing elsewhere first?
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Frankly, the choice to live in highly rural/exurban fire-vulnerable communities is often relatively volitional; there are low-housing cost areas that are more fire-defensible than the North Coast and Sierra foothills
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Replying to @cjg2127 @RedwoodGirl and
The change in the last few years is just a different scale altogether. You can’t say that these people willingly those this frequency and scale of fire damage. This is climate change.
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Yeah Chris isn't making a moralistic argument I don't think. Just pointing out low cost rent also exists in towns surrounded by farming
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IME it is not at all the case that there's adequate affordable housing for very low-income people anywhere in northern CA. Perhaps I'm mistaken. But I had to relocate from Oakland and looked all over northern CA - it's terrible.
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if they're seniors on fixed-incomes, their house is underwater and it's uninsurable, they're not going to be able to move. Many people also live in these parts *because* non-WUI areas refuse to be build more dense housing.
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