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New Startup Working on Software to Help Government Fix Housing Problems

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Re: New Startup Working on Software to Help Government Fix Housing Problems

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Post by tehlike »

axau wrote: post #3

This is great, it is about time some scientific process was forced into a system that sadly has been largely driven by protests of idiots in large numbers so far.

I am not sure if the problem is scientific process, or greee of the nimbys. I guess unless state overrides everything somehow and changes zoning and increases # of stories allowed, and this somehow helps, then yes.

Re: New Startup Working on Software to Help Government Fix Housing Problems

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Post by axau »

tehlike wrote: post #4
axau wrote: post #3

This is great, it is about time some scientific process was forced into a system that sadly has been largely driven by protests of idiots in large numbers so far.

I am not sure if the problem is scientific process, or greee of the nimbys. I guess unless state overrides everything somehow and changes zoning and increases # of stories allowed, and this somehow helps, then yes.

I agree, it won’t be enough, but it’s a great first step. Currently, given how difficult it is to find reliable data, one often can’t easily disprove even the most ridiculous of arguments (like the various groups in the Bay that believe, almost literally, that to solve rising costs people should stop building, rent control, BMR, and similar).

Re: New Startup Working on Software to Help Government Fix Housing Problems

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Post by electricslpnsld »

gruglife wrote: post #6

Great idea but I don't think the government really cares about fixing this issue.

Some do. Wiener and Skinner in the California senate have been making some recent strides and getting cooperation from the governor, which is very promising.

Re: New Startup Working on Software to Help Government Fix Housing Problems

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Post by saosebastiao »

I like the goal, and I'd even love to work on something like this, but is this a business or a non-profit project? Where are they gonna make money?

Also, I don't think reform is bottlenecked on data. At this point, we have strong causal hypotheses and the data we do have supports those hypotheses almost unilaterally. The problem is almost entirely in the hands of political science: juridictional and generational politics, regulatory capture, etc..

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