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California could lose housing leverage over cities under court ruling
- euddhhs 7y agoThe tldr is that Charter Cities are a thing and that a characteristic of them is that they aren't bound by the same state laws as regular cities. In this story, a judge ruled that a particular charter city couldn't be compelled to follow certain state level building rules because it would violate the laws around charter cities. Various affordable housing advocates are mad about this and feel the judge should have looked the other way.
- dang 7y agoCould you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. HN is a community. Users needn't use their real name, but do need some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20community%20identity https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
- carapace 7y agoBuild consensus first, then you can build buildings.
- avmich 7y agoAs I understand, NIMBY-ism is an old and stubborn problem. Probably a consequence of other problems.