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by Decade 8y ago
It’s ridiculous how Manhattan is always brought up as the thing to avoid, when Manhattan has much more humanity and interesting activities than San Francisco. The problem with Manhattan is that zoning trapped Manhattan in amber, along with
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by Decade 8y ago
The big difference here is that I think a lot more people in San Francisco is a good thing, and a lot more cars on the road is a bad thing. I never specified that N = the number of people currently living in San Francisco. The outflow of pe
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by Decade 8y ago
Zoning is an instance of local government oppressing individuals. “Local control” means the person who owns a property cannot build an apartment. Marin County is so adverse to housing development, they illegally stopped even one new home fr
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by Decade 8y ago
Everything has to make sense financially. Currently, we have huge investments in transit going out to huge surface parking lots in the middle of single-family detached housing. Expanding this model of development is economic suicide. https
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by Decade 8y ago
I think the caricature of the self-interested rich guy is really the most rational caricature. Preserve the neighborhood in amber, maintain home values; this makes sense, this is the majority of the United States. The activists supposedly f
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by Decade 8y ago
By housing, we really mean land use. We inherited from our grandparents a society built around cars, and restrictive zoning that prevents society from rebuilding away from cars. Just look at the zoning maps, how much of San Francisco is lim
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by Decade 8y ago
The legislators did pass a bill last year, SB 35, that says if a project has enough inclusionary housing, and it complies with all the zoning codes, and the city has been falling behind on affordable housing, then the municipality can’t blo
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by Decade 8y ago
Yes, but supporting density is not YIMBY exactly. In Houston, the main problem is not NIMBY, but unsustainable development patterns. StrongTowns is a more universal message. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018&#x2F
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by Decade 8y ago
Economically created housing has the benefit that it pays for itself. If we can’t even get housing that pays for itself, then the system is completely stupid. (Dennis Richards, take note.)
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by Decade 8y ago
> YIMBY: Build more housing and higher density in desirable places (places next to transit, places close to work). This will raise rents in areas that are more desirable (to market rates) and lower rents overall as there is more supply i
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by Decade 8y ago
For short-term competitiveness. The largest pool of technical jobs is here, so the largest pool of technical workers is here, so the largest pool of technical knowledge is here. Each generating more of the other. https://www.scie
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by Decade 8y ago
In the meanwhile, schools all over the peninsula are shutting down because of falling enrollment. It’s only about the “wrong crowd.”
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by Decade 8y ago
The law doesn’t forbid you from selling to a developer, but the law does forbid the developer from turning a single-unit house into an apartment. Or even a duplex, a lot of the time. Just look at the zoning maps. Around Golden Gate Park, th
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by Decade 8y ago
N > M. We need more homes than we have. That is not an economic model. That is a simple, relatable, metric. That is the best property of the YIMBY movement. Whether “missing middle” small apartment buildings or “social housing” hundred-u
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by Decade 8y ago
> Nobody reasonable is arguing that "increasing the supply of housing increases prices" (that's a strawman) That is not a strawman. That is literally what the old-school tenant activists in San Francisco say, providing pol
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by Decade 8y ago
The tipping point for me is to consider how they do their work. London Breed is trying to make San Francisco a city for everyone, and she does not let personal feelings get in the way of good policy. Jane Kim may know how to say the right t
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by Decade 8y ago
The tax rate limits have also turned out to be problematic. They limit how much taxes can be, relative to property value, but they haven’t limited taxes overall. We now have a whole lot of parcel taxes, and Mello-Roos taxes, where a stick h
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by Decade 8y ago
That was sort of the point. The bill was not authorizing anybody to raze existing homes to create new homes. It was not changing demolition controls, and it was not changing any approval processes. It was about setting baseline numbers for
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by Decade 8y ago
Being a “minority activist” does not make you immune to corruption. The protest was organized for the ambitious elected official Jane Kim, and she invited “minority activists” to speak out-and-out lies. Things like, “SB 827 does not have te
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by Decade 8y ago
When people leave California, because there is not enough housing, and move to Texas, which sprawls into floodplains, they double or triple their greenhouse gas emissions. Even with all the greenhouse gases from super-commutes, I prefer to
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by Decade 8y ago
Not everybody needs health care. Everybody needs a home. Housing is also a root cause of a lot of other issues. Equity. Environment. Health. Upward/downward mobility. Ethnic integration. And so on.
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by Decade 8y ago
The phrase “trickle down housing” is an anti-YIMBY smear. It’s the logical fallacy, reasoning by analogy. The real issue is simply N > M, where N is the number of bedrooms needed in San Francisco, and M is the number of bedrooms in exist
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by Decade 8y ago
Moore’s Law was working fine. What technologists could not predict was a Republican president imposing protectionist tariffs that made advanced computers prohibitively expensive in the mid-1980s.
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by Decade 9y ago
Because the question was about outcompeting. Automobiles, etc., there are many competitors, including some American. And weapon systems, there is a national security reason to maintain regional leaders, no matter how inefficient. In IT, I f
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by Decade 9y ago
And where is the European Apple? European Google? European Facebook? Even the European Intel, ARM, now belongs to Japan.
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by Decade 9y ago
Don’t just hope. Join California YIMBY and contribute time and money to defeating NIMBYism. https://cayimby.org
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by Decade 9y ago
My 2013 MBP had a charging circuit issue, too. I brought it to Apple, and they said replace most of the internals, $800. I took it to a third-party authorized Genius Bar (Create More on 3rd St), and they replaced just the charging circuit f
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by Decade 9y ago
Reducing energy use doesn’t necessarily mean reducing expenditures. I mean, reducing expenditures can be good if you’re saving for something else, but you don’t have to. Instead of buying and fueling the car, you can buy the luxury bicycle.
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by Decade 9y ago
In San Francisco, it is illegal to for a master tenant to rent a room for more than the subtenant’s proportionate share of the space. You can charge more, but hell will descend upon you once the subtenant figures it out.
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by Decade 9y ago
> Who buys a laptop with only 30 GB of storage? I didn’t even know that was possible these days. Ultra-cheap computers with MMC flash drives with pathetic read-write speeds. And pathetic other parts. Such as this charmer from Walmart. h

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