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1) remove NIMBYs’ ability to limit construction with procedural chicanery and keep housing prices high 2) Build subsidized housing. SF likes to complain about
by fmajid 3y ago
1) remove NIMBYs’ ability to limit construction with procedural chicanery and keep housing prices high
2) Build subsidized housing. SF likes to complain about the end of the state redevelopment agencies but did you know that with just one year’s worth of the $7B a year windfall from the much-despised Tech (difference between the 2022 and 2008 budgets), SF could buy or build a $1M condo for every single of the 7,000 homeless men, women and children in the city? Instead at least half of that was captured by civil self-servants in the city bureaucracy in the form of salaries and benefits.
3) Restore involuntary committal of some mentally ill unable to care for themselves, that was abolished by the well-meaning but clueless Lanterman-Petris-Short Act in 1967
4) means-test rent-control (half of SF’s residential units), which creates haves and have-nots and raises prices to astronomic levels for new entrants
5) remove land-use restrictions like single-family zoning that covers half of the city
6) force drug addicts into treatment, using coercive measures if necessary