getting cross-subsidy from market-rate isn't perfect either, but @UCBDisplacement looked at Scott's plan and found that it would quintuple capacity for on-site inclusionary affordable units while also quadrupling overall market-feasible capacity in the affected geography.
that jobs-housing imbalance is inextricably financially tied to a lot of NIMBY behavior throughout California. Cities don't make enough property tax revenue from residential and they can no longer use retail/shopping centers to offset it. So they now do office,
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which is far easier to get through the political/legislative process than housing. The two are tied together.
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So Tim can complain about all the growth he wants, but it enables his property tax basis to remain the same without substantial cannibalization of public service provision given the city's unfunded liabilities, which continually outpace revenue collection.
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