this is what nationalization is for
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Replying to @peterjgowan @ryanlcooper
I feel like "nationalize real estate development companies" seems like a heavy lift and if what Ryan's proposing requires it, that's a discussion we need to have rather than handwaving past it.
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Replying to @mtsw @peterjgowan
I mean, I'm sure there are some tricky parts here but it can't be *that* hard to build a dang apartment building. New Dealers did stuff 1000 times harder than that with no experience
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Replying to @ryanlcooper @peterjgowan
i mean... maybe? I'm all for big initiatives and the idea that government can be doing more, but like, actually working out how this would happen seems extremely important, esp considering our status quo is that we can't effectively maintain the public housing we have now
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And if we're talking the acute crisis in supply-constrained high-cost metro areas, doing so is unnecessary to fixing the crisis so it feels like adding a bunch of risky extra steps unnecessarily vs like, building public housing in Detroit where the case is prob a lot stronger
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Replying to @mtsw @ryanlcooper
i think you've just picked one politically difficult solution (which requires you to team up with libertarians) and have decided to die hard for it instead of considering alternative solutions (which are more successful in an international context and are libertarian-free)
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Replying to @peterjgowan @mtsw
and anyway, the yimby political approach flopped badly in California. the main point of my article is that social housing will fly better in a deep blue state
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Ahahahahahaha. You don’t know our state. We’re only blue on the coasts.
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...where the people and large cities are?
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