These are all great ideas, but the point is that they don't solve the other problems at hand directly, and the problems at hand interfere with executing on thes

These are all great ideas, but the point is that they don't solve the other problems at hand directly, and the problems at hand interfere with executing on these ideas. How are we going to fund mental health interventions and housing cost reductions if businesses refuse to pay taxes and housing costs keep going up? How are we going to expand on transit and cut transit costs if transit revenues are bad and high housing prices result in land values so high that the state can't buy land up to expand transit infrastructure? I'd love to see that stuff, but it's been necessary for decades and isn't happening. We can't blame it all on NIMBYs, and getting rid of them won't make it suddenly happen. Some of this is due to other state-wide and city problems, like taxpayers being unwilling to approve funding for transit and other measures, but that's not the only problem either.