Honestly baffled by this. Refusing to build housing in Palo Alto because “housing is a human right” is the galaxy brain economics that makes cities completely unaffordable.https://twitter.com/lydia_kou/status/1109391701704007680 …
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Well, their argument is that YIMBYs in SF are set on building housing at market rates, which will not actually provide housing for those who need it most (thus denying them their human right).
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What the article is proposing is NOT to block more housing. It is to build new housing but it should be public, social, or otherwise assuredly affordable for low-income people.
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Who is right in this largely depends on what is actually the "housing problem" for you. Is it about solving it for upper-middle income people, or for homeless and low-income people?
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If one were to say "housing is housing" and "any housing helps", I see parallels here to how building more road capacity and parking lots doesn't really solve traffic jams and parking problems.
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I mean this might make sense if she wasn’t elected after leading a movement to kill low-income senior housing. Everyone who knows Bay Area politics knows she’s bad faith.
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