Landlords Are Pushing the Supreme Court to End Rent Control
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#2This is a great way to get pitchforks.
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#3Ok, now invalidate Euclidean zoning.
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#4Rent control is dumb policy anyways.
Now how can we get rid of nimby rule? Local governments have way too much influence on development, for better or worse.
Perhaps sufficiently large development proposals must be entertained by the entire city or town rather than being unilaterally decided by a board - that seems like a sufficient compromise (at the expense of speed, but development is slow anyway given the appeals).
Of course that’s not a perfect solution either since there are towns in which home ownership rate is almost 100% and thus they would be most incentivized to not allow any development even if they all voted at the expense of the neighbors shouldering the development burden.
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#5This is a great way to get pitchforks.
Recent decades suggest that, with a bit of strategy, backlash from curtailing economic protections for working people can easily be minimized to spiraling debt, homelessness, addiction, and suicide, in that order. No biggie.
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#6This is a great way to get pitchforks.
Recent decades suggest that, with a bit of strategy, backlash from curtailing economic protections for working people can easily be minimized to spiraling debt, homelessness, addiction, and suicide, in that order. No biggie.
It also protects housing supply from increasing
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#7Rent control is dumb policy anyways. Now how can we get rid of nimby rule? Local governments have way too much influence on development, for better or worse. Perhaps sufficiently large development proposals must be entertained by the entire city or town rather than being unilaterally decided by a board - that seems like a sufficient compromise (at the expense of speed, but development is slow anyway given the appeals…
Why don't we get rid of NIMBYism and make sure that actually solves the issue without banning sensible implementations of rent control?
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#8Finally, something that should actually help fix the housing crisis.
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#9This is the natural consequence of Citizen United (such a dishonest name). When those with money is allowed to leverage their wealth to disproportionately affect legal proceedings and lawmaking, it is just a step towards dystopia.
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