Everything you need to know about California’s SB 79

Post by wewewedxfgdf » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 1:40 AM UTC

epistasis wrote: post #19

wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #15

It's all just to help the property investors - the mom and pop landlords, the mega corporate landlords. "If we, your landlords, own a LOT more housing, surely you can see how that will trickle down to YOU eventually owning a house. It's obvious isn't it? Our goal as investors is to build so many houses that prices will crash and everyone will be able to afford a house to live in. That's what we deeply want for all, a…

When people have a new home to live in, it's a huge help to them. There's this weird tendency to treat people in new housing as not people, as non humans. In reality we have a massive housing shortage, and tons of people living in crowded situations, and massive displacement of the working class out of California. All those people exist, are real, and are helped massively by new housing. One doesn't have to own a hom…

Post by epistasis » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 1:41 AM UTC

wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #21

epistasis wrote: post #19

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When people have a new home to live in, it's a huge help to them. There's this weird tendency to treat people in new housing as not people, as non humans. In reality we have a massive housing shortage, and tons of people living in crowded situations, and massive displacement of the working class out of California. All those people exist, are real, and are helped massively by new housing. One doesn't have to own a hom…

You'll own nothing and be happy, eh?

Post by heavyset_go » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 1:42 AM UTC

cyberax wrote: post #18

ecshafer wrote: post #4

SB79 is a great step forward for California. Hopefully other states implement similar (and more aggressive) bills in their states. My dream world would see an elimination of local zoning as we do in the US, and a move to a zoning system more like the Japanese use. I would also love to see states adopt a Land-Value Tax to help incentivize development. Similar to SB79 I have always hoped for a bill that enforced someth…

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Post by cd4plus » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 1:42 AM UTC

hopelite wrote: post #5

hamdingers wrote: post #3

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The California housing crisis is a result of restrictive local policy preventing housing starts, not a shortage of materials.

These are not hard things to understand or solve, it's just that the majority of people don't want to understand them or face reality and the politicians will always serve up these kinds of con artist lies to placate people. You cannot add ~60 million foreign national people to the US population in the last 25 years without severely impacting the housing situation when the USA has only built 1.1 million housing units…

Post by cyberax » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 1:44 AM UTC

heavyset_go wrote: post #25

cyberax wrote: post #18

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If you want nice things, be prepared to pay the true cost for them instead of being subsidized by everyone else.