Market-rate housing is not affordable housing in much of California.
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Replying to @JimYoull @kimmaicutler
It's objectively not, but the more you build of it, the cheaper it makes all housing. You can't just build "affordable" housing, there is no such thing without damaging cost controls that keep construction from happening in the first place.
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Replying to @willcharczuk @kimmaicutler
and y’all carry on as if it will not take literally /decades/ to re-commodify housing, if it ever happens at all given the broken incentive structure of sb827 and comparable half-assed efforts
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And what’s your solution? Doesn’t sound like you have one...
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As I’ve explained patiently to others who don’t get how this works: I’m not a doctor but if a surgeon proposes using a chain saw, I can declare that’s wrong w/o simultaneously defining what’s right. Simpleminded “solutions” to complex problems are often wrong, as sb827 is wrong.
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And as I’ve consistently asked: why isn’t Scott upzoning the entire contiguous region (homes aren’t just next to train tracks and bus lines)? Because he’s maintaining a constrained market to protect pleasant white towns and prioritize the opportunity for big developers.
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Upzoning an entire region is politically infeasible
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re: perfect is the enemy of good. one thing can happen, one can’t.
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You are completely full of shit for trotting our that worn out expression and attempting to apply it here to nullify legitimate critique of an a priori destructive and discriminatory economic intervention.
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Loosening zoning reduces economic intervention! The entire housing crisis is caused by the massive economic intervention of zoning laws.
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Property is a fictitious commodity and is only enabled by governance systems and rule of law! 
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