I share your frustration. Wish there were more easy short term answers. But having low and middle income people cagefight each other for table scraps while the landlords sit ringside and watch the rents roll in is a losing strategy. Need to grow the pie.
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Replying to @APVanDevender @jrivanob
As a socialist, my goal is to expand public construction and acquisition for this very reason, but it will entail competing with a threatened, deep pocketed private market lobby for resources which just highlights the urgency of building a broad coalition for public housing TODAY
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the more i think about it, the more i find the "IZ kills housing" to be a disingenuous argument. under the same logic, building codes, design guidelines, even minimum safety standards for construction workers all kill housing.
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the more salient point is that under our current regulatory regime there is virtually no other way to create housing for low income people who don't make enough even to afford the cheapest of the existing market rate product. IZ addresses that point.
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a more fruitful approach from IZ critics (and there's plenty to criticize) isn't just to throw out hypothetical alternatives but actual put pen to paper to create alternative mechanisms to put those alternatives into practice. otherwise it seems like concern trolling.
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YES! YES THANK YOU I FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN TAKING CRAZY PILLS FOR YEARS TRYING TO EXPLAIN THIS TO PEOPLE
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my concern troll response to IZ kills housing is 20% equity IRR kills housing too but I don't see anyone taking regulatory action to stop it.
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Only disingenuous in caricature. Never said killing housing is an absolute negative. It's ok to have priorities and make trade-offs, like health and safety. Just that creating affordable housing over here isn't worth it if it costs even more housing over there.
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Replying to @APVanDevender @RevClown and
We have both a housing distribution problem and an existence problem. IZ admirably tries to address the distribution problem, but exacerbates the existence problem. This in turn makes the distribution problem progressively harder and harder to solve and becomes self-defeating.
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Unless you advocate for single-payer housing. Seattle just saw a dev boom that dropped rents by 3% and devs have responded by drastically cooling down the pipeline. For-profit developers are the bad boyfriends of urbanism.
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this country has something like single-payer homeownership through the backdoor of government-subsidized/channeled private finance.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @uhshanti and
The Mortgage Interest Tax Deduction is the Medicaid Work Requirement of housing.
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