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by Decade 9y ago
Yeah, I was in a hurry. My point was that voters were already voting to save themselves from the housing crisis 40 years ago; while making the crisis even worse. The article was about how the housing crisis goes back even further. Ultimatel
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5 years. How cute. Prop 13, a law with horrific long-term consequences, was passed by the voters in response to the housing crisis. 40 years ago. http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-housing-supply/ San Franc
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But Linux is the one part that is not present. It’s GNU software running in a Windows subsystem. GNU/Windows?
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>>This contributes to traffic, greenhouse gas emissions, wear on infrastructure, noxious gases emitted in residential neighborhoods, and poisonous relations between neighbors. >Which are exactly the problems that in a perfect world
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I wholehearted disagree with regulations that require parking spaces. People are less likely to own cars if they knew they were paying extra to park them. Parking spaces should have prices, so we can use the market to distribute them in the
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Those are all accidental limitations from the architecture as it exists, not as it could exist. There is no fundamental reason why the IP address is a combination of network and host address. There is no fundamental reason why a host is pre
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Nitpicking. It was added to a budget trailer bill by the representative from Marin County, and accepted in return for his support of the new gas tax or something. Politics are ugly.
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I think she was exaggerating, slightly. In reality, we have a lot of laws that, on the face, have some purpose, but are being used in terrible ways. Even the fire code, frequently, is used to make places less safe.[0] For the most egregious
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Landlords invest in city centers by buying land and then developing it. If they rent it out, then they need to spend money to maintain it. Or they can sell the land to new landlords. Whoever owns the land takes on the risk that it might dec
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That is an overly simplistic view of land ownership. In reality, nobody is an island. Much of the value of your land is provided by the presence of nearby people. The landlords in the city center get a lot of benefit from their investment i
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I think the great success of Silicon Valley was that government didn’t know how to regulate it, so by default was pretty hands-off. Except for promoting the welfare of laborers in general, like how non-compete clauses are illegal. Governmen
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The “peak car” was a temporary dip associated with the Great Recession and crippling student loan payments. Since the recovery, once they get a good job, almost every millennial I know has a car. Even my brother, who advocates for dense car
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I wouldn’t say San Francisco is exactly lacking in zoning ( http://sf-planning.org/zoning-map ), and whatever it lacks in specific law, it makes up with the most horrendous process imaginable. ( http://sf.streetsblo
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One man’s concrete jungle is another man’s walkable and extremely lively community. Also, many people have pointed out, we don’t need to go full Manhattan to satisfy current demand. We can do it with mid-rise construction, that still leav
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The common complaint among the politicians is that tech companies are skinflint. The bad laws are maintained (Marin County just exempted itself from dense housing laws for the next 10 years[0]) because the people who care about urbanism are
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That actually does happen. And then we have the twisted situation where the economists say the economy is great, practically zero unemployment, even construction workers are scarce in California; and at the same time workforce participation
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There's affordable housing, and then there's Affordable Housing. Some of the restricted Affordable Housing actually is pretty expensive, while still being too scarce for the demand. https://medium.com/@Scott_Wiener
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Ah, your previous statement was unclear. I thought that 100% farebox recovery was a goal, but it is not. Again, corruption covered by unlimited debt financing. It’s like the US has the worst version imaginable of all sorts of common things.
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Both are subsidized by unlimited debt financing. The difference is that car-free cities are physically possible to do without subsidy, mainly having a corruption problem, while suburbs as we know them are not. In particular, mass transit wo
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The preference has been distorted by propaganda and coercive redistribution of wealth. https://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/why-sprawl-was-cause... Sure, I would like my own single family home, as long as I have acc
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Cars in general are bad for the environment. The discount was about being quite a bit less bad, but EVs are still bad. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14536854
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But in New York, if you find Manhattan to be unaffordable, then you can move to a suburb. In San Francisco, the suburbs are even more expensive than the city. The bad incentives of Prop 13 reward cities for favoring offices over housing. Th
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If there are fewer places to live than people who need to live there, then having a place for everyone is impossible. In a shortage, all housing is luxury housing.
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I don’t think so. Besides my weird urbanist friends, and very poor people, I don’t know anybody who doesn’t at least want to have a car.
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Can’t live in Manhattan? Because NIMBY housing policies prevent Manhattan from growing. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-...
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The weird part, to me, is that we have people here, so there is obviously a market. At the very least, in a functioning economy, they could be working to help each other. Why should everything be about big supply chains run by big business
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Not just the federal government. State and local governments are also insanely slow and expensive. For example: Mayor Ed Lee being fast and decisive. Building teacher housing during such a state of emergency that SFUSD has trouble filling i
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Increasing costs would not be terrible if access to money increases at least as much. The problem we have is that the haves are walling themselves off from the have-nots, in the name of preserving quality of life. The cost of the materials
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Really shallow analysis. A lot of the US regulations are just really bad. Does France have labor unions who force employers to hire people to stand around not doing anything useful? Is Japan’s environmental quality law so open-ended that it
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Architect calls SF planners “obstructive.” Spoiler alert: they’re ticked(sfchronicle.com)
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