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To complete the thought, if government did allow a massive increase in housing supply and all those voters “lose” that money, the associated politicians will be
by coredog64 8y ago
To complete the thought, if government did allow a massive increase in housing supply and all those voters “lose” that money, the associated politicians will be gone in a heartbeat. So while the NIMBYs start this, they’re enabled by politicians in fear of their phony-baloney jobs.
- dodobirdlord 8y agoIt will take state level intervention. The voting population of the city of San Francisco itself has enormously outsized influence on the regional economy due to their ability to control development within the borders of the city. But they constitute nowhere near the majority of the population of the Bay Area. At some point (ideally) their state level politicians will just get steamrolled by the representatives of the rest of the state's population, and most of their power to control local development will be stripped away.
- avar 8y agoPresumably the opposition to that won't just be Bay Area NIMBYs, but anyone living in California with an interest in the state not dictating zoning policy to local municipalities.