The answer to California's housing crisis is more housing
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Re: The answer to California's housing crisis is more housing
#2> because developers mostly would build high-end units
This is such a frustrating perspective.
Re: The answer to California's housing crisis is more housing
#3> because developers mostly would build high-end units This is such a frustrating perspective.
It's frustrating because, as propaganda, it's been extremely effective.
If you're an opponent of increased housing supply in California, you can roll out that talking point whenever threatened. It's tested, emotionally resonant, and most people don't have the time to be explained why it's wrong.
Supporters of increased housing in CA need to come up with their own powerful rhetoric, rather than whining about the fact that their opponents' rhetoric works.
(Whining further that bad rhetoric shouldn't be allowed is even worse--we live in a democracy; you have to influence people; rhetoric matters.)
Re: The answer to California's housing crisis is more housing
#4You can't just demand more housing. You have to make people want it. This is why I'm strongly in favor of taxing land by area.
A ten story condo with 100 units takes up as much land as 8 houses with yards. By reducing everyone's taxes then making up the difference via a land tax, you effectively lower the taxes on people using high density land use homes. You make it a more desirable lifestyle.
Demand from voters leads to changes in law.
Re: The answer to California's housing crisis is more housing
#5Could this crisis be an instance of induced demand? [1]
Re: The answer to California's housing crisis is more housing
#6> because developers mostly would build high-end units This is such a frustrating perspective.
A lot of today’s housing stock was originally built as higher-end units, and moved down the chain as it got older. The idea is that when higher-end units are built now, the wealthy vacate some of their current units, which then have downward price pressure and become middle-range units, and so on.
Re: The answer to California's housing crisis is more housing
#7You can't just demand more housing. You have to make people want it. This is why I'm strongly in favor of taxing land by area. A ten story condo with 100 units takes up as much land as 8 houses with yards. By reducing everyone's taxes then making up the difference via a land tax, you effectively lower the taxes on people using high density land use homes. You make it a more desirable lifestyle. Demand from voters lea…
That would significantly increase the taxes on agricultural use. Is that your intent? To incentivize high density residential, while making it hard to grow food?
Re: The answer to California's housing crisis is more housing
#8You can't just demand more housing. You have to make people want it. This is why I'm strongly in favor of taxing land by area. A ten story condo with 100 units takes up as much land as 8 houses with yards. By reducing everyone's taxes then making up the difference via a land tax, you effectively lower the taxes on people using high density land use homes. You make it a more desirable lifestyle. Demand from voters lea…
The services used are proportional to bodies inhabiting, at least to some extent. Sewage, roads for example.
Re: The answer to California's housing crisis is more housing
#9You can't just demand more housing. You have to make people want it. This is why I'm strongly in favor of taxing land by area. A ten story condo with 100 units takes up as much land as 8 houses with yards. By reducing everyone's taxes then making up the difference via a land tax, you effectively lower the taxes on people using high density land use homes. You make it a more desirable lifestyle. Demand from voters lea…
That would significantly increase the taxes on agricultural use. Is that your intent? To incentivize high density residential, while making it hard to grow food?
America is one of the world's largest exporters of agricultural products. There is no shortage of agricultural land that could and should be used for housing development.
Re: The answer to California's housing crisis is more housing
#10You can't just demand more housing. You have to make people want it. This is why I'm strongly in favor of taxing land by area. A ten story condo with 100 units takes up as much land as 8 houses with yards. By reducing everyone's taxes then making up the difference via a land tax, you effectively lower the taxes on people using high density land use homes. You make it a more desirable lifestyle. Demand from voters lea…
That would significantly increase the taxes on agricultural use. Is that your intent? To incentivize high density residential, while making it hard to grow food?
agricultural use means different zoning which will taxed differently.