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Then don't buy property in an area where the community has decided that property rights should have certain limits. If you want the "right to build whatever [y

Then don't buy property in an area where the community has decided that property rights should have certain limits. If you want the "right to build whatever [you] want" go move out into an unincorporated area. Don't move to San Francisco and then try to force everyone around you to change so that YOU can do whatever YOU want.

stale2002 8y ago
Instead of doing that, I am just going to try and get the laws changed. There are lots of people who care about affordable housing, and we are growing in political power. The rich people who only care about protecting their property values and increasing their rent prices, are slowing being outnumbered by renters who will vote to increase supply. We no longer live in a time where you have to be a property owner to vote. New people in an area have just as many political rights as property owners. So no, I am not going to just shut up and do nothing. I am going to play to win. And that means voting and trying to change the law. It will take time, but we are gaining in strength, because there are just so many people who are getting screwed by the establishment political interests. So I am confident that the supply problem will be solved eventually. I am sorry that people participating in a democracy offends you. And a democracy means that everyone has the same political rights, regardless of whether they have just moved to a city or if they have been there for 30 years.