“Shouldn’t suburbanites want their kids and elderly parents to be able to afford homes nearby? Shouldn’t construction workers want more construction, tenants want more apartments, and legislative leaders want legislation?”
Price of failure: “New York will not add [enough] homes, the values of existing homes will be higher because of tight supply. That will mean more homelessness, higher rent burdens and more population (and political power) shifting to other states.”
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@bfurnas
NY is pursuing “smart decline” to push out low-income families as a way to cut tax spending on healthcare and services.
NIMBYs see NY as a “luxury state”
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@chrislhayes
But this all runs counter to houses being the principal investment vehicle of the vast majority of Americans.
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@chrislhayes
Listen, if housing was affordable, how would rich people amass wealth beyond measure without working?
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@bfurnas
If you want elderly parents to be able to rent nearby, you must have strict rent control and eviction protections. No one is going to sell a house to go into an unregulated rental market when they’re 70.
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@chrislhayes
To accomplish this requires a rationally empathetic populace. People become empathetic by marinating in healthy milieu. The only places which are set up to do that are schools. But they don’t. We need to radically rethink the current endemic pedagogy! Will anyone listen???
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@chrislhayes
Shouldn't we just finish off the middle class whose hatred of "fellow Americans" left jobless is surpassed only by their zeal for war?
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