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If the state is willing to be activist and damage the (paper) wealth of very influential people, like senior bureaucrats and policy wonks - who decide the state
by worik 6y ago
If the state is willing to be activist and damage the (paper) wealth of very influential people, like senior bureaucrats and policy wonks - who decide the states policy...
I do not know what it is really like in SF, but here in Aotearoa that is where we find ourselves. House prices and rents double what they ought to be and no state actor willing to take the hit of doing anything about it
- cheriot 6y agoIt's more about neighborhood level obstruction in SF. People will elect pro-housing candidates as Mayor and State Senator/Rep, but the local Board of Supervisors (the city council) is controlled by people that will say, "you should build that anywhere, but here." People are _very_ anti-change and especially don't want people different from themselves moving in.