City-owned land helps!
11.03.2026 17:08
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City-owned land helps!
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Are you tired of your watered-down triplex bills not producing much? Are you trying to downzone townhouse FAR to artifically force 'plexes to pencil?
Consider upzoning for 1,000 units per acre on top of a subway stop instead
Having empathy and thinking that someone is being irrational are not mutually exclusive.
This one persists even on the left, at least in places like California.
“all renters are (or should be) aspiring homeowners” is another
“Multifamily housing is for young renters and the poor while single family homes are for established adults with children” is a really pernicious folk theory about how housing markets should work that I think is foundational to so much bad housing policy at all levels of government.
It is legal in most states, as car ownership status is not a protected class. Only recently became illegal in CA. www.streetsforall.org/state-2024/s...
It's actually not illegal in most places. I helped pass a bill to make it illegal in California recently, though. www.streetsforall.org/state-2024/s...
For many states, it’s also the only sector with *increasing* emissions.
Do you know which other Dems signed onto the oil industry's letter besides Krell?
And the fact that such a localized system gives an outsized influence to the petit bourgeoisie is of course a feature, not a bug.
Local governments and neighborhood councils are likewise lionized for being small and decentralized.
the basic problem with marx as filtered through the american consciousness is that americans are fatally poisoned by jeffersonianism so everything gets read through the lens of whether it makes it easier or harder to be a yeoman smallholder
The CA GOP runs that bill every year
Lawsuit settlement with State Farm requires rate increase reductions for property owners and increases for renters policyholders
They’re coming up with new and exciting ways for renters to subsidize property owners here in the Golden State all the time. It’s frankly incredible how many different levers they find to take money out of renters pockets and give it to homeowners and landlords.
*WWOOF. My apologies to the trust funded gap year community.
We don't need technology to feed 8 billion people. Consider the efficiency and nature reciprocity of having every PhD student spend a semester working on a WOOFF farm.
Seattle has built a lot of infill, which means a lot of people within walking distance of goods and services, and jobs. That goes a long way in reducing need for a car.
Yes, I grew up in a Midwest subdivision that used to be woods and farmland. My kid in NYC has more access to nature than I did living there.
Because the atlantic is a conservative rag
There are some cities where REICs have bought a lot of single-family homes recently (Atlanta, for example), and the data so far shows that this has slightly increased cost of ownership but slightly decreased the cost of renting.
Don’t know, I assume? But they would still be categorized based on the largest owner entity, which is a real estate investment corporation (REIC).
70% of rental properties are owned by individuals, another 15% by LLCs. Only 1.2% of rental properties are owned by investment firms, in case you’re trying to allude to the slopulist notion that Blackrock owns all the rental housing.
I don’t think there’s any difference, in terms of the material interests of tenants, between a ”mom and pop” landlord and the faceless LLC who owns my building, if that’s what you’re trying to get at. If anything, I personally prefer the faceless LLC.
Particularly more housing that is not single-family, detached homes.
Unchanged zoning is most often the fault of multiple individual homeowners (though it doesn’t take many, maybe 10?) showing up to local civic meetings to fight any attempt to allow zoning changes that might lead to more housing.
It is great that the people of Brownsville were able to buy and build equity in homes that now sell for fifiteen times what they cost new.
I do not think that asking New York City homeowners to pay higher property taxes is “maligning homeownership.”
Landlords are in conflict with renters, of all incomes, but yes especially working class renters. That’s why I think we should dilute their power and empower tenants by building more housing.
Incumbent landlords are very much in competition with developers of new housing.
I blame Ron Paul