Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

Bernie is terrible but we fucking cornered young people

The extant infrastructure around education, housing and healthcare is rife with rent-seeking that transfers wealth backwards through the generations. And the regulatory environment ensures that young people cannot solve their own problems.

Want to buy some underdeveloped/cheap-ish land reasonably near to the job centers and throw some prefab/DIY homes on it? Sorry, no permit for you. Try again next year, and the year after that. Expect to be fined each day you try to move forward on the build.

I think there’s something else going on too - why do a lot of young people argue for rent control and price controlled affordable housing instead of massively increasing housing supply? Why do people blame economic growth instead of anti-growth housing policy?

Do we have a housing shortage? Or is there abundant housing (and most resources) but it's distributed in an unhealthy way?

Yeah this might be the question we need to come to terms with. I bet if this was more visible you'd get a split consensus amongst self-professed progessives.

This question doesn’t make sense to me - who is distributing housing? Housing costs come from the # of people that want to live in a place and the # of available places to live. Add more housing then more available, newer places more desirable and older places become cheaper.