2) (I promise there are only 2) It's a bit of assuming the can opener to say the government can do housing construction more efficiently than the private market. In theory: no reason they couldn't but there's a lot of inertia in the system.
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Replying to @mtsw @ryanlcooper
The government basically nowhere in the United States currently employs people with expertise in constructing or managing residential housing. It's really complicated! (My girlfriend works in residential leasing. Can attest that even the paperwork is really hard)
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Replying to @mtsw @ryanlcooper
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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Here. Read the comments section on this story. This is what the conversation is like in the rest of California outside of a few specific gentrifying neighborhoods in SF, Oakland and LA.https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2018/04/20/affordable-housing-project-carries-steep-price?utm_source=Arent+Fox+List&utm_campaign=06431a65d6-20170216+-+Land+Use+Digest&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3a013c8d3d-06431a65d6-424260245&mc_cid=06431a65d6&mc_eid=5cd3dc30cc …
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aside from this not being a remotely objective sample, looks to be about as many anti-NIMBYs of various sorts as there are people complaining about heights and parking
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feel like we'd all have to be pretty pessimistic about politics if we treated the comments section as a representative sample.
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