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You know how in software quick and ugly hacks have this nasty tendency to stick around long past their sell-by date and hurt everything around them? A quick an
by Kalium 10y ago
You know how in software quick and ugly hacks have this nasty tendency to stick around long past their sell-by date and hurt everything around them?
A quick and ugly policy hack like a housing moriturium is the same way.
- matwood 10y agoIt's not a hack. If you want to use a software analogy it is akin to stop adding features until we get the current system cleaned up. That is often the right thing to do in software. The hack is not a moratorium, the hack is to keep adding houses until infrastructure finally fails and the system falls over. Brilliant plan.
- Kalium 10y agoOK. It's a feature moritorium. It's an administrative choice that is very easy to prolong. Because it solves the immediate problem, it's also a choice that's very easy to keep making to avoid the significant cost of addressing the underlying problems. This is the sort of administrative choice that led to the Bay's housing crises.