Can't stress enough how basically banning people from renting single family homes (which is the flip side of banning companies from renting them out) is basically economic redline with lefty vibes (only the well off can live in suburbs). Sadly I think that is why it is so popular.
your grandparents voting for reagan
Jon Walker
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A major housing bill that would discourage building rental homes “reflects a peculiar type of American populism that combines a right-wing fetish for suburbia’s homeowner society with a left-wing distrust of investment capital,” Henry Grabar argues.
The housing bill now in Congress may seek to increase the housing supply—but not for renters.
A Pew study of 1,654 ZIP codes found low-income neighborhoods saw rents rise 10% faster than wealthy ones during the shortage.
But in metros that grew housing stock by 10%+, rent grew slowest in older affordable buildings.
cayimby.org/blog/how-blo...
Despite the infighting (which I participate in, and which I think has real stakes) PMC urban reformer types are all basically in the same tribe when considered from 1,000 feet. I have more in common with someone who grinds out reports about decommodifying housing than I do with a normal person.
I didn’t say I’m happy about this.
As a city doing both upzoning and direct subsidy to get more homes built, there really is no need to put one of these ideas against the other like this article does. We need both policies, and doing both gets greater results faster.
I like the policy recommendations in this report, I just wish they weren't preceded by a lengthy (and error-filled) attack on YIMBYism.
"J-pilled" means "skeptical of Israeli influence" the same way that "arbeit macht frei" means "a preference for including work requirements in certain types of housing programs."
