California's housing bill SB 50 has died in the state Senate
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Re: California's housing bill SB 50 has died in the state Senate
#2Jerry Hill is the Senator for most of the SF Peninsula. He voted against the bill. https://sd13.senate.ca.gov/
Re: California's housing bill SB 50 has died in the state Senate
#3Here's the voting breakdown:
https://legiscan.com/CA/rollcall/SB50/id/910526
Re: California's housing bill SB 50 has died in the state Senate
#4California's housing policy failures have repercussions up and down the west coast.
It's sad they didn't follow Oregon's lead and legalize some more diverse housing options.
Re: California's housing bill SB 50 has died in the state Senate
#5Housing has been a bitter historical and cross-cultural source of class conflict and oppression. In its current form in America, the bourgeois accumulate as much as they can like any unethical entity, and leverage it to maximize personal utility at the cost of the living conditions of the masses. It's always interesting to see how people use capitalism to indirectly (which is no excuse) cause this natural brutal nature of existence, to cause the common man (or woman) to "groan and sweat under a weary life".
Re: California's housing bill SB 50 has died in the state Senate
#6What a mess. Sad to see "tenant" organizations yell and scream about gentrification and displacement, ignoring the fact that both of those things are happening right now.
Re: California's housing bill SB 50 has died in the state Senate
#7Housing has been a bitter historical and cross-cultural source of class conflict and oppression. In its current form in America, the bourgeois accumulate as much as they can like any unethical entity, and leverage it to maximize personal utility at the cost of the living conditions of the masses. It's always interesting to see how people use capitalism to indirectly (which is no excuse) cause this natural brutal natu…
To be fair, a continual rent treadmill that forces everyone to work full time is the explicit overt policy of the Federal Reserve. But any candidate that brings this up gets memory-holed by the mainstream propagandas.
Re: California's housing bill SB 50 has died in the state Senate
#8Question from an outsider: Is it really necessary to have a state-level bill for this as opposed to county-level? Is the diversity of the localities in the state small enough where such a measure can be decided so centrally? (I admit I haven't read it or saw if it had conditions on population).
Re: California's housing bill SB 50 has died in the state Senate
#9Housing has been a bitter historical and cross-cultural source of class conflict and oppression. In its current form in America, the bourgeois accumulate as much as they can like any unethical entity, and leverage it to maximize personal utility at the cost of the living conditions of the masses. It's always interesting to see how people use capitalism to indirectly (which is no excuse) cause this natural brutal natu…
To be fair, a continual rent treadmill that forces everyone to work full time is the explicit overt policy of the Federal Reserve. But any candidate that brings this up gets memory-holed by the mainstream propagandas.
Woah. What kind of language do they use to describe said policy?
Re: California's housing bill SB 50 has died in the state Senate
#10Question from an outsider: Is it really necessary to have a state-level bill for this as opposed to county-level? Is the diversity of the localities in the state small enough where such a measure can be decided so centrally? (I admit I haven't read it or saw if it had conditions on population).
Well, one of the main "reasons" this bill was killed was about what you're asking. From the LA Times[0]:
"Senate Bill 50, which would have allowed construction of mid-rise apartment complexes near transit and job centers and fourplexes in most single-family neighborhoods throughout California, was opposed by state senators who said the measure took too much power away from local governments and failed to sufficiently address low-income housing needs."
So it seems there are people in the CA state senate who would rather see this done at county or city levels. However, sometimes these projects hinge on state support in the form of taxes/allocation or if there is existing state-level legislation that requires amendment or repeal... I think. I'm not a gov buff.
Overall, though, I think the prevailing thought is that the cities/counties that some say "need" affordable/denser housing would never on their own vote for new legislation. Palo Alto is named in this article[0] where a resident claims building higher density dwellings is less important than curbing corporate expansion. Quote:
"Greg Schmid, a 78-year-old retired economist, said the region should slow the expansion of large companies. Young, highly paid tech employees are overwhelming Palo Alto, he said, and adding to traffic congestion. The situation, he said, only works for the companies’ benefit and drives out families who earn less and could otherwise live in Palo Alto.
“The aggressive expansion of big business does not have any sensitivity to the need for a sustainable community,” Schmid said."
I think it's a fair point.
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0. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-29/high-pro...
1. https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-apartm...