What the hell? I love you SF, but...as a friend...you have lost your goddamned minds.
Lafayette will face a lawsuit next week from an SF housing group that says it hasn't built enough housing: wp.me/p6YW4L-1g2B
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@johnolilly And how do you propose causing enough housing construction in the bay area to reduce redistribution of wealth to landowners?
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@davidbaron I don't, but I don't believe other cities have the burden to solve that problem.
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@johnolilly We can't just have an entire metro area full of cities declaring themselves "for rich people only".
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@davidbaron I think that is needlessly over general and antagonistic characterization -- not what i usually get from you. :)
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@johnolilly @davidbaron I think it cuts right to the important point - "city-level self-determination" can be harmful and arbitrary
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@gavinsharp @davidbaron it implies much about what citizens are doing and why. That's crap. You can't assume motives like that.
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@johnolilly @davidbaron these policies usually caused by desire to a) avoid change (lifestyle/demographics) or b) preserve value. Disagree?
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@gavinsharp @davidbaron I don't know. I try not to generalize about other peoples' motives, truly. Rarely results in any positive action.
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@johnolilly @gavinsharp my use of "declaring" was inappropriate, but the result of existing policy is clearly "rich people only"
Dec 4, 2015 · 6:22 AM UTC
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