Everyone, repeat after me. Real estate & homeownership are subsidized at the federal level & enjoy the country's very largest tax deductions. Managing the flipside of these policies is left to the municipal level and city governments, which are largely on their own.https://twitter.com/Smerity/status/958478137884471297 …
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Be interesting to see if people in Utah are more or less NIMBY about shelters than people elsewhere
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When I was there reporting, I visited a supportive living facility that's right next to an elementary school. They got a lot of pushback but the developers just persisted in going to every single community meeting & speaking with neighbors.
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But Bay Area/California voters have the policy levers to ease land costs by ending artificial zoning-induced scarcity and more than enough wealth to pick up the remaining costs if they wanted to tackle this issue, but evidently they don't
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