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   by temp42564356 13y ago

   > All you libertarians aren't real libertarians I'm not a "real" libertarian; I am neither a child nor a sociopath. > If we want a true free market, all land should belong to the commons, and we have a free market
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   by temp42564356 13y ago

   > I am mystified by housing/anti-gentrification advocates' refusal to consider building new housing stock as a solution to this problem. Because an anti-gentrification advocate is bascially saying, "you don't have the
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   by temp42564356 13y ago

   > The city is free to mandate subsidized housing ratios in the neighborhoods it is worried about becoming gentrified. Subsidized housing doesn't prevent gentrification, it just shifts rental profits from landlords to subletters, whi
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   by temp42564356 13y ago

   I read the paper. 90% of it was hand waving that could be boiled down to a grudging acceptance that demand exceeds supply, and drives up rents, and the remaing 10% was wishful thinking about how to change reality so that rents would somehow
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   by temp42564356 13y ago

   tl;dr: The City of San Fancisco should prohibit Google buses until Google promises to magically repeal the laws of economics that rents increase when demand exceeds supply. EDIT: The paper specifically recommends that the city prevent Googl