SF NIMBYism is, in large part, an attempt to drive the tech industry out of town with high rents. Of course this hurts non-tech people much more than tech people, so it's kind of a scorched-earth strategy. https://twitter.com/maiab/status/1208134499445420034 …
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If they REALLY wanted to be effective, they'd be PHIMBYs and insist on building LOTS of public housing. That would scare off the techies, house "old SF" retirees and priced-out students and POCs and some of the homeless. Bonus: justified moral high ground
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PHIMBY is an excuse to build nothing, since the cost is very high and neighborhoods all block the housing.
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Saying "public housing or nothing" is what people do when they actually want nothing but want to look lefty while doing it
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Maybe try this perspective on your recent critique of Bryan Caplan's work.
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