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Recently some socialist lackwit on Twitter was railing that YIMBYs only lowered prices from $600k to $500k. This person apparently did not understand that the d
by jeffbee 2y ago
Recently some socialist lackwit on Twitter was railing that YIMBYs only lowered prices from $600k to $500k. This person apparently did not understand that the difference - $20k up front and $700/mo for 30 years - is the margin between affordable and not affordable for tens of millions of ordinary people.
- davidw 2y agoIn case anyone reading thinks otherwise: you can absolutely be a socialist and a YIMBY. Maybe your goal is Vienna style housing. The only thing you need to acknowledge is that cities need 'enough' housing.
- jeffbee 2y agoYeah but there's this entire genre of hammer-and-sickle-in-bio online guy who thinks socialism is about ideals, not the material experience of the proletariat. Those guys think we should outlaw home building until after the revolution.
- davidw 2y agoYeah, I've seen those people. They remind me of this scene https://youtu.be/tx02tY8ABfA?si=JbSiDMTdkHs5LrOk&t=62 https://youtu.be/tx02tY8ABfA?si=JbSiDMTdkHs5LrOk&t=62 They don't want to take that next small step that will help somebody, they want to change everything all at once.