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In 1978 California passed the ill-conceived Proposition 13 which encourages people to keep houses rather than sell them through lower tax rates for longer owner
by iaw 6y ago
In 1978 California passed the ill-conceived Proposition 13 which encourages people to keep houses rather than sell them through lower tax rates for longer ownership.
California has almost 40M residents and Oregon has a bit over 4M, even a fraction of those 40M going north to Oregon is going to overload the housing market there.
- davidw 6y agoYep. Oregon has something similar in Measures 5 & 50, and it distorts our market as well. I follow CA housing politics fairly closely because, as you point out, they are important in Oregon too. It has been really dismaying to see them consistently fail to pass the kinds of reform they need.
- chris11 6y agoProp 15 and Prop 19 are on the ballot. I think those would reduce market distortions if they pass.
- notJim 6y agoI think Oregon has done better than California in this regard, hasn't it, with the ban on single-family zoning?
- davidw 6y agoYes we have! HB 2001. One of my prouder YIMBY moments was turning out a bunch of people to speak with our state representative in support, on a weekday morning.
- pkaye 6y ago> even a fraction of those 40M going north to Oregon is going to overload the housing market there. Oregon just needs to build more housing.
- davidw 6y agoAnyplace that people want to live should build more housing of all shapes and sizes - and not artificially restrict housing options with zoning.
- rsync 6y ago"Anyplace that people want to live should ..." ... democratically decide their own course of action with regard to housing, zoning, etc.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoThere's the view that its an intrusion on personal liberty and choice. Should they also democratically decide what car you should drive? What to name your kids? Democracy is another kind of oppression, when taken too far.
- rsync 6y ago"Should they also democratically decide what car you should drive?" It depends. Most western european countries have fairly strict regulations on maintenance, road-worthiness, emissions and sound. Here in California we have relatively strict emissions regulations. These regulations were, essentially, decided by a democratic process. Presumably if they attempted to regulate color it would fail at the polls.
- davidw 6y agoExclusionary zoning is basically what they came up with when the Supreme Court decided that you couldn't straight up exclude non-white people.
- rsync 6y agoThat's an almost comical level of reductionism concerning exclusionary zoning. If I lived in a suburban neighborhood I would not want a 7-11 nextdoor. Or a steel fab shop. That is exclusionary zoning and it has nothing to do with race or class discrimination. It disappoints me to see democracy - and democratic outcomes - embraced only when it produces results we like.