Zoning is the ability to tacitly exclude people on land you don't own.https://twitter.com/seepstein/status/761729212344471553 …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
you’d prefer no zoning?
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Replying to @JimYoull
that said, hyper-local control in the U.S. has some very perverse effects. https://next.ft.com/content/023562e2-54a6-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3c60 …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
zoning doesn’t /exclude/ homeless as it /excludes/ junk yards in residential areas. /we/ fail to /include/ them in our reality
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Replying to @JimYoull
its legal origins in the 19th century are founded on racial exclusion http://www.boomcalifornia.com/2016/05/re-coding-planning/ …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
hell, it’s not even enforced in SF where we have Airbnb hotels on many “residential” blocks.
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Replying to @JimYoull
Airbnb came about as an act of zoning arbitrage, after the city zoned far too few hotels (and houses, obvs).
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
i’ve heard “regulatory arbitrage”. I’ll buy that. but they are flat out breaking the law. that’s not arbitrage,
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Replying to @JimYoull
under current American zoning, probably close to half of all buildings are "breaking the law" http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-percent-of-manhattans-buildings-could-not-be-built-today.html …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
oh come on though, nothing like AirBNB turning residences into hotel rooms - destroys community during a housing crisis
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I have pretty clear opinions on regulating, fining Airbnb more tightly.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @JimYoull
beyond regulating & fining Airbnb, imo govts might work w/such platforms to *address* housing needs. c/
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@ProfSchleich suggested they might with eg Uberhttps://twitter.com/tmccormick/status/657247310842167296 …Tim McCormick added,
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