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The heart of their effort is lowering the amount of time for certain appeals. It's not about addressing the real concern (the onerous regulation and red tape th
by dev_dull 7y ago
The heart of their effort is lowering the amount of time for certain appeals. It's not about addressing the real concern (the onerous regulation and red tape that allows everybody to slow down building unless it satisfies their particular social justice issue, whether that's environmental, aesthetic, cost, etc).
Cities and state governments want this regulation. They crave it and create it endlessly because it forces developers to come to them for permission.
- Brozilean 7y agoOr it's because those with money to build property are inherently exploitative of those living there.
- quotemstr 7y agoIf using money to buy property is "exploitative", you've redefined that word into meaninglessness.
- dev_dull 7y agoIt’s better that chunk of land stays an empty lot and we all pay more and more for rent. Otherwise we’d be getting exploited!
- dgoldstein0 7y agoAnd the best way to fuel that exploitation is to give the existing set of landowners an effective monopoly by disallowing new construction. If we instead encouraged new construction (via less red tape and other means) we should expect rents to go down as the supply expands - or at least for them to rise less.