cheriot

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by cheriot 5y ago
> the cost of housing is high, so let's build more so we can make more money That's how markets are suppose to work. Make money by making something people want to buy. It shouldn't require a corrupt city council to have en
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by cheriot 5y ago
People prefer housing they can’t afford. Allowing housing of different densities allows people to optimize their trade offs.
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by cheriot 5y ago
The people opposing zoning changes did not do that. They moved to a suburb right next to a city so they can commute in. Getting outraged that the city grows is ridiculous.
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by cheriot 5y ago
Generally it's the suburbs immediately outside a prosperous city that start to urbanize. Genuinely rural areas in America often have the opposite problem - they shrink.
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by cheriot 5y ago
Because people moving to a city from a rural area have been making a lower salary and are now facing the high costs of a city. An engineer with a signing bonus can make the transition smoothly, but the people forced out of rural areas often
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by cheriot 5y ago
Those people get screwed the most by high rent and long commutes... that are the direct result of prohibiting dense housing.
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by cheriot 5y ago
Are you proposing an alternative measure? The market price is what affects people's budgets so that's the one I use.
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by cheriot 5y ago
There are signature gatherers out for a ballot proposition to make local land use laws override state law. The main supporters are small, rich municipalities.
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by cheriot 5y ago
The residences that cost the most are the ones that require buying the most land in the most expensive area. That's not really contradicting my point.
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by cheriot 5y ago
It's fine to prefer rural areas, but the problem is using the law to force suburbs on people that would be happier in urban areas. "Increased population density also tends to increase crime." This is a myth. Murder rates by c
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by cheriot 5y ago
The most valuable residential land in the world is in the most densely populated places.
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by cheriot 5y ago
For those of us not affiliated with a University, is there a way to read the article without paying $37.50? Anecdotally, there's a lot of mythology in America about the supremacy of single family exclusive neighborhoods that's con
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by cheriot 5y ago
I wonder if there's a market for a software engineering specific search engine. Skip the shitty content farms, include code from open source projects, and potentially be more smart about finding package uses
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by cheriot 5y ago
Twitter is an advertising platform and it's the ads, ad targeting, advertiser tools that change. Doing new things with a large volume of data requires a lot of engineering. "If you're not paying for the product, you are the p
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by cheriot 5y ago
In addition, there's people that run out of money at the end of the month and need smaller size packages even if the per unit cost is higher.
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by cheriot 5y ago
Removing rent control does not address the housing shortage. The city built office space for more jobs and prohibits housing for those new workers. That's the problem to solve.
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by cheriot 5y ago
SF has one of the lowest vacancy rates in the country, which is part of what drives up prices. My point is that we need housing where the housing shortage is.
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by cheriot 5y ago
Depends on how broadly you define the problem. My points here are not that there's a complete solution so much as there's straight forward steps that do a lot of good. There will definitely still be problems after solving these.
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by cheriot 5y ago
Rent control has only existed in a handful of CA municipalities, but the exorbitant housing costs are everywhere in the SF, SV, LA regions. To your point, CA's regional housing needs assessments are state level intervention to undo cit
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by cheriot 5y ago
100% agree that we need a lot more mental health facilities. It's not about fixing every problem, but we can make the problem less bad. The instability and insecurity of sleeping outside makes everything else worse. There are also a lo
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by cheriot 5y ago
You're conflating pent up demand with induced demand. People want housing in SF because they work here. The jobs are the cause. In other words, office construction in a hot economy creates demand for housing.
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by cheriot 5y ago
It's the ratio of homes to jobs. "How many homes does SF need?" is hard because it's a moving target as the city permits new office construction. I ballparked the housing gap a while back by comparing the ratio of employ
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by cheriot 5y ago
That's a really good point. I've heard of curfews as early as 9pm!
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by cheriot 5y ago
California had a lot of success with Project Home Key that acquired existing hotels and converts them to supportive housing. It worked well because it was quick and often required only one vote by local authorities. In contrast, building ne
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by cheriot 5y ago
Housing needs to be where the economic opportunity is. That's why there's empty homes in Detroit and a rent burdened population in coastal cities.
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by cheriot 5y ago
> it's just a flavor of trickle-down economics Trickle down economics is a Republican justification for cutting taxes for the rich. Building new homes under Prop 13 increases the taxes paid by rich people. Between 2015 and 2019 SF
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by cheriot 5y ago
Yes, SROs are great and it's extremely difficult to build new ones even where they're zoning compliant. We need a lot more of them.
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by cheriot 5y ago
Nobody claims housing fixes those things, but it is an improvement over the same people sleeping on the sidewalk. We don't need to put off the simple solutions because there are harder ones after that.
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by cheriot 5y ago
All of the shelters where I live are full. The article describes increasing chronic unsheltered populations in west coast cities. Do any of these have empty shelter beds? SF and LA do not. "Underutilized land near transit? What do you
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by cheriot 5y ago
"But in all instances there is typically an oversupply of homeless shelters that people refuse to use" What's a west coast city with empty shelters? The ones in my town are full.

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