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Ah yes, everyone without a home is simply a lazy poor who should just move to Mississipi where the land is cheap and the jobs are abundant.

pessimizer 4y ago
> everyone without a home I guarantee you're not talking about homeless people here, but people who live in a home that they are renting, reasonably near the place they work. edit: also, somehow these so-called poors are always wealthy programmers trying to buy million-dollar houses.
ROTMetro 4y ago
I left California because I couldn't afford to own a home there.
- namlem 4y ago
  Which is why California needs to fix the policies that led to its housing shortage. There is no inherent reason for California to be so expensive, it is a deliberate policy choice driven by local governments.
  - supertrope 4y ago
    Maintaining the character of a neighborhood as single family houses. Even as prices exceed $1,000,000.
  - jjav 4y ago
    > Which is why California needs to fix the policies that led to its housing shortage. There is no inherent reason for California to be so expensive, it is a deliberate policy choice driven by local governments. There's a lot of truth in that, but it's also an oversimplification. There is plenty of cheap land in California, here, have a quarter acre lot for $15K: https://www.redfin.com/CA/California-City/Princeton-Ave-93505/home/22160714 https://www.redfin.com/CA/California-City/Princeton-Ave-9350... Of course it's cheap since nobody wants to live there. If everyone wants to live in San Francisco, it's going to be much more expensive. Building more helps but in the end there's only so much that can realistically be built in 50 square miles. Some people will always be left out so there will always be some unmet demand, so it'll never be dirt-cheap. So yes policy obstruction is a thing, but there are also inherent reasons why popular places will never be cheap.

pessimizer 4y ago

> everyone without a home I guarantee you're not talking about homeless people here, but people who live in a home that they are renting, reasonably near the place they work. edit: also, somehow these so-called poors are always wealthy programmers trying to buy million-dollar houses.

ROTMetro 4y ago

I left California because I couldn't afford to own a home there.

namlem 4y ago
Which is why California needs to fix the policies that led to its housing shortage. There is no inherent reason for California to be so expensive, it is a deliberate policy choice driven by local governments.
- supertrope 4y ago
  Maintaining the character of a neighborhood as single family houses. Even as prices exceed $1,000,000.
- jjav 4y ago
  > Which is why California needs to fix the policies that led to its housing shortage. There is no inherent reason for California to be so expensive, it is a deliberate policy choice driven by local governments. There's a lot of truth in that, but it's also an oversimplification. There is plenty of cheap land in California, here, have a quarter acre lot for $15K: https://www.redfin.com/CA/California-City/Princeton-Ave-93505/home/22160714 https://www.redfin.com/CA/California-City/Princeton-Ave-9350... Of course it's cheap since nobody wants to live there. If everyone wants to live in San Francisco, it's going to be much more expensive. Building more helps but in the end there's only so much that can realistically be built in 50 square miles. Some people will always be left out so there will always be some unmet demand, so it'll never be dirt-cheap. So yes policy obstruction is a thing, but there are also inherent reasons why popular places will never be cheap.