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The sort of legislation I'd be interested in seeing is more similar to SB 827 than it is to existing zoning laws. Namely, don't allow cities subsidize job growt

The sort of legislation I'd be interested in seeing is more similar to SB 827 than it is to existing zoning laws. Namely, don't allow cities subsidize job growth while keeping housing constrained, or additionally, upzone for office/industrial space and then downzone housing. And it's absolutely a battle between residents and businesses. Cities subsidize multinational companies to grow within their borders and then allow them to contribute very little to the infrastructure needed to support these people. Due to the lack of proper transportation and educational investment, enabling high numbers of new comers just leads to more congestion and overcrowding. If we had employment head taxes (or any other sort of program that could solve infrastructure challenges in a 1:1 way with job migrant growth) around solving these sorts of problems, they wouldn't be problems.

macinjosh 8y ago
> If we had employment head taxes (or any other sort of program that could solve infrastructure challenges in a 1:1 way with job migrant growth) around solving these sorts of problems, they wouldn't be problems. How is a city going to resolve a housing shortage by collecting a head tax? Is the city going to get into the housing development business and build more housing themselves? > And it's absolutely a battle between residents and businesses. Cities subsidize multinational companies to grow within their borders and then allow them to contribute very little to the infrastructure needed to support these people. Due to the lack of proper transportation and educational investment, enabling high numbers of new comers just leads to more congestion and overcrowding. Again, the government is the problem here. Why is the city treating certain businesses with favor over others (i.e. multinationals over the housing industry)? It is corruption! If the government was removed from the picture there would be more housing (i.e. no zoning issues) and multinational companies wouldn't get sweetheart deals (i.e. subsidies) which would mean growth would happen at a more natural rate that the infrastructure could support.

macinjosh 8y ago

> If we had employment head taxes (or any other sort of program that could solve infrastructure challenges in a 1:1 way with job migrant growth) around solving these sorts of problems, they wouldn't be problems. How is a city going to resolve a housing shortage by collecting a head tax? Is the city going to get into the housing development business and build more housing themselves? > And it's absolutely a battle between residents and businesses. Cities subsidize multinational companies to grow within their borders and then allow them to contribute very little to the infrastructure needed to support these people. Due to the lack of proper transportation and educational investment, enabling high numbers of new comers just leads to more congestion and overcrowding. Again, the government is the problem here. Why is the city treating certain businesses with favor over others (i.e. multinationals over the housing industry)? It is corruption! If the government was removed from the picture there would be more housing (i.e. no zoning issues) and multinational companies wouldn't get sweetheart deals (i.e. subsidies) which would mean growth would happen at a more natural rate that the infrastructure could support.