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By contrast consider Conor Dougherty's Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Gates-Fighting-Housing-America/dp/0525560211
by jseliger 7y ago
By contrast consider Conor Dougherty's Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Gates-Fighting-Housing-America/dp/0525560211 https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Gates-Fighting-Housing-America..., which is about how California in particular works hard to raise the cost of housing.
Places like Seattle are a little better, with an emphasis on "little." https://jakeseliger.com/2015/09/24/do-millennials-have-a-future-in-seattle-do-millennials-have-a-future-in-any-superstar-cities https://jakeseliger.com/2015/09/24/do-millennials-have-a-fut...
- Pfhreak 7y agoThat said, Seattle has a grass roots effort right now to try and get social housing on the ballot for November. There are folks here fighting for housing as a place to live, not as an investment.
- clairity 7y agoa link to a summary of golden gates on nytimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/books/review/golden-gates-housing-conor-dougherty.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/books/review/golden-gates... i’m of the opinion that weiner’s various housing bills, while lovely and worth passage in their own right, didn’t go far enough to break this construction gridlock in california.