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Just because someone has to say it: - we need to build more housing, and that means up-zoning and reducing local control (NIMBYs blocking new construction) -
by habitue 3y ago
Just because someone has to say it:
- we need to build more housing, and that means up-zoning and reducing local control (NIMBYs blocking new construction)
- we need a land value tax.
- ebiester 3y agoA land value tax is one way to achieve that goal with its own tradeoffs. Building more housing close to the jobs is an independent problem with an independent goal.
- underlipton 3y agoThe government has a choice between there being enough housing to serve as a supportive foundation for more sophisticated economic activity, or placating private interests that don't see fit to build that housing until an arbitrary profit can be made. States and the federal government should be building housing. Directly. Loss-leading, if they must. Sorry to the real estate magnates who would be impacted.