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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(i'm pretty pessimistic about the politics of this, in terms of what people in wealthy nimby suburbs think, at least)
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so am I lol I just think 'it'll piss off the NIMBYs too much' is a terrible reason to not pursue good social housing policy. I don't consult 'obama is a kenyan nazi muslim' commenters before supporting strong anti-racist policy either
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also, while it still seems plausible to me that social housing would help cut the political knot here, ultimately you can't know how it will play until you try. lot of these arguments are very new and odd-sounding to people
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sure but there are zero political approaches that will reach wealthy homeowners in the suburbs, who will reject both social housing and new market rate housing.
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correct. I'm saying that YIMBY + PHIMBY might get you a workable majority to steamroll those people
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I would bet you that YIMBY *and* PHIMBY are a tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiny faction in the state and most actual voters are those commenters.
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do you have evidence beyond random comment sections to demonstrate that?
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40 years of not being able to reform the single Constitutionally embedded law that allows Californian land parcels to absorb a disproportionate share of societal value and wealth even though everyone knows it destroyed our educational system and made public finance untenable.
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