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> The state-run public authority would act as an alternative to private sector development, which the bill’s sponsors say has failed to create enough affordable

> The state-run public authority would act as an alternative to private sector development, which the bill’s sponsors say has failed to create enough affordable homes to keep up with the state’s growth, citing the current housing shortage, rising rents and surging homelessness Hmm, that seems a bit contradictory and circular: government makes it hard to build --> market reacts to that with higher prices --> government blames private sector --> government decides public housing with a bunch of regulations needs to be built? Obviously there are certain localities like NYC that probably require something like this due to limited physical space but the bill[0] is at the state level. It seems like it'd be better to focus on de-regulation rather than something like this state-wide. 0: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S8494 https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S8494

mcv 1y ago
Only when your assumption is that the government wants to make it hard to build houses, but why would the government want that? That's the part that makes no sense.
- appreciatorBus 1y ago
  The government does the things that organized voters care about. And the most organized voters are homeowners afraid of living next to someone poorer than they are, or a building taller than theirs. So they lobby the government, as they have for the last 100 years, to implement a raft of land used laws that make it all that impossible to do anything but sprawl on the edge of the city, or demolishing & evicting apartments and to build slightly taller apartment buildings. Wherever you live, I guarantee the largest bylaw in your municipality is the one that is composed of the government listing the residential buildings you aren’t allowed to build on most of the land in the municipality.
  - mcv 1y ago
    And yet there's tons of building going on. It's true, you can't build everywhere, but there are a lot of places you can build.

mcv 1y ago

Only when your assumption is that the government wants to make it hard to build houses, but why would the government want that? That's the part that makes no sense.

appreciatorBus 1y ago
The government does the things that organized voters care about. And the most organized voters are homeowners afraid of living next to someone poorer than they are, or a building taller than theirs. So they lobby the government, as they have for the last 100 years, to implement a raft of land used laws that make it all that impossible to do anything but sprawl on the edge of the city, or demolishing & evicting apartments and to build slightly taller apartment buildings. Wherever you live, I guarantee the largest bylaw in your municipality is the one that is composed of the government listing the residential buildings you aren’t allowed to build on most of the land in the municipality.
- mcv 1y ago
  And yet there's tons of building going on. It's true, you can't build everywhere, but there are a lot of places you can build.