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What sort of regulations are you looking for? I’m just not sure how regulating a company will end homelessness. Seems like the government should be using taxes

• kerkeslager 8y ago
  Well, to start, you have to close loopholes which allow corporations to dodge taxes to even be able to collect taxes to begin with. I'm not sure where you're drawing the line between regulation and taxation; they go hand-in-hand. I don't have enough context to say what's the best regulation to end homelessness in SF, as I have lived more in NYC area and am more familiar with NYC-specific problems than SF, but some ideas: 1. Require builders to build a certain percentage of low-income housing for every unit of high-income housing they build. 2. Require property owners to fill properties in a certain timeframe, rather than leaving properties empty waiting for a high-paying tenant, or simply keeping them as an investment. 3. Higher minimum wage so people at the bottom can afford housing. 4. Require a smaller pay gap between highest-paid and lowest-paid employees of a company (this addresses the corporate threat that if they are forced to pay higher minimum wages, they'll just raise their prices--the money for minimum salaries comes out of CEO's salaries instead of inflation).
  • TuringNYC 8y ago
    I'd add point 0: 0. Allow increase in supply, which fixes most other problems. Stop artificially constraining supply and allow more manhattanization.