Soon the peaceful suburbs of California will look like congested cities like Seoul or Mumbai with a whole bunch of slums thrown in between.
I can't wait.
Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow
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#12In principle, I hate this. Cities should be able to plan their own growth. In practice, coming from CA, I am 100% onboard. It's a mess of red tape and bullshit lawsuits.
Yeah, it's a hamfisted solution, but only because it has to be.
And as the state government has said -- cities can still plan their own growth! They just have to plan some growth rather than none, which, obviously, is the sticking point.
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#13This seems like a way to reduce homelessness and fix the housing market in one fell swoop.
Fixing homeless requires removing homeless, not adding homes. It's a law enforcement problem, not an economic problem.
I suppose, through a certain carceral and inhumane viewpoint, your approach works too.
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#15I feel slightly hopeful.
Feb 1st is the deadline and court challenges need to see their way through.
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#16This seems like a way to reduce homelessness and fix the housing market in one fell swoop.
> reduce homelessness Is the homeless problem due to the cost of housing? Or is it moreso due to fentanyl?
If they had homes, it wouldn't be called homelessness. You can take fentanyl in an apartment.
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#17Wow that's great news! The level of bureaucratic creep that has been imposed on property owners is actually unbelievable to me. I obviously understand some regulations (you can't built a chemical processing plant in a residential neighborhood, obviously), but cities have creeped themselves into all-powerful overseers. Most cities now have the power to tell you what kind of house you can build, how you can paint it, h…
For what it's worth, most zoning is created by property owners, too. Gotta preserve their investment at the expense of our nation's growth.
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#18Soon the peaceful suburbs of California will look like congested cities like Seoul or Mumbai with a whole bunch of slums thrown in between.
I mean, California already has both a massive homelessness problem and a major housing shortage. The prices from the latter have driven a ton of migration out of the state. Is your solution to just do nothing?
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#19Wow that's great news! The level of bureaucratic creep that has been imposed on property owners is actually unbelievable to me. I obviously understand some regulations (you can't built a chemical processing plant in a residential neighborhood, obviously), but cities have creeped themselves into all-powerful overseers. Most cities now have the power to tell you what kind of house you can build, how you can paint it, h…
> how you can landscape it, what kinds of cars you can keep in your own driveway
These two at least make some sense. The former, landscaping restrictions, can be used to prevent people from creating groundwater issues or flood risks, and the latter... no one wants a neighbor in a residential zone keeping broken-down trash cars out in the open.
Some things have to be regulated even in a relatively free society because otherwise the potential is too high for greedy or stupid people to ruin everyone else's life.
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#20This seems like a way to reduce homelessness and fix the housing market in one fell swoop.
Fixing homeless requires removing homeless, not adding homes. It's a law enforcement problem, not an economic problem.
I mean, it stands to reason that there also need to be homes for those people to live in. Unless you're planning on executing or imprisoning them instead.