(Policies that were dependent on a large, previously untapped supply of cheap land converted to residential use via a combination of newfound mass automobile access & public highway infrastructure + backdoor homeownership financing that no longer exists because it's priced in.)https://twitter.com/Spacekatgal/status/975170790231629825 …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
So, A. My own state, Massachusetts has a dreadful public transportation system. In fact, if we invested in it many parts of the district I’m running in could be if it in that same way.
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Replying to @BriannaWu @kimmaicutler
B. It’s not just what baby boomer received, it’s what is being taken away from millennials. Unaffordable college, skyrocketing healthcare, a rigged economy. I understand the point, but I think it’s too pessimistic
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Replying to @BriannaWu @spacekatgal
they're interrelated.
@jerrybrowngov's father Pat commissioned Clark Kerr to create the Master Plan for Higher Education in 1960, which envisioned nominally free higher education at the CC, CSU & UC level. But the taxpayers ultimately never fully financed it after passing Prop 131 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
the generation (older than the Boomers) undermined the fiscal foundations upon which inexpensive housing & higher ed would have been offered in retaliation for school financing equalization, the demands of an increasingly non-white younger generation in the late 1960s
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