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Yes. Do better than this: "If there's a credible threat to build plenty of housing, they'll move on." What's needed is a mainstream, national name-n'-shame str
by scotuswroteus 5y ago
Yes. Do better than this: "If there's a credible threat to build plenty of housing, they'll move on."
What's needed is a mainstream, national name-n'-shame strategy that identifies specific officials and offices that are causing the block in housing. Make the target highly specific and concrete, and ensure the messaging is big tent -- don't make it anti-municipal government. Make it anti-zoning.
It's a waste of political bandwidth that most Americans know the name of at least one random House Rep that represents their partisan opponent either because Fox News or MSNBC, but none of us has any idea about the bureaucrats who are making terrible anti-housing policy decisions every day and driving up the cost of owning shelter.
Read this article and tell me how the amount of pro-YIMBY energy hasn't yet turned this into a major, populist outcry against specific people and specific government agencies: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/place/article/The-quest-for-design-utopia-at-SF-s-Pier-70-11034437.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/place/article/The-quest-...
- nathanaldensr 5y agoMaybe it's because people disagree with you--people who like where they live and don't prefer radical changes and ideas. Maybe you should go talk to some of them and learn about what they want and why they prefer stable policies. What you call "anti-housing" others call "pro-stability."
- scotuswroteus 5y agoI think this assumes that diversity of opinion among an electorate is what's responsible for one movement's ineptitude. The movement to change zoning can improve AND reasonable people can disagree about it's outcome. If your only point is that there are pro-zoning people who disagree with me -- that point is obvious and does not conflict with anything I've said.