

MOUTHFACE
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@MOUTHFACE1
I hate Twitter. I hate censorship. I hate being told what to do, or think or what vaccines I have to have.
















I’m a huge fan of Jennifer Hernandez, and her latest for @cityjournal exposes what I like to call immaculate-conception progressivism. Hernandez zeroes in on AB 130, a law that has attracted very little attention but that will have huge consequences. In short, the law creates a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) mitigation fee — potentially $1,350/month added to the cost of new homes outside transit corridors, falling hardest on exactly the market-rate suburban projects most likely to be affordable to ordinary families. Just to be clear, a mitigation fee this high is designed to kill affordable sprawl. California progressives understand that their state faces an acute housing shortage. That is good. But they seem to believe that California can meet housing demand while building only transit-adjacent urban infill that meets stringent affordability requirements — housing that is immaculately green, equitable, etc. As Hernandez observes, however, high-density urban infill is just about the most expensive housing you can build. Land costs, regulatory complexity, and construction costs in California's transit corridors routinely push rents above $3,000/month — before any new fees. I don't doubt that some number of working- and middle-class California families would love to live in these apartments, but they'll have a hard time affording them without large subsidies and, importantly, they'll have an even harder time commuting to service jobs or jobs in logistics, warehousing, light manufacturing, etc., outside of urban cores. The housing shortage is a mass-market problem. It requires mass-market solutions: homes that pencil out at prices ordinary families can afford, in the suburban and exurban areas where blue-collar jobs and land are (relatively) abundant. Unless I’m missing something, this is just unbelievably perverse. city-journal.org/article/califo…




🚨 do you understand what New York City just accidentally admitted.. NYC spent $81,705 per homeless person last year.. the median American household earned $81,228.. the government spent MORE to keep someone homeless than most families earned to keep themselves housed.. that $81,705 isn't going to the homeless person.. it's going to the system around them.. shelters, administrators, case managers, contracts, overhead.. the industry that manages homelessness.. not the end of it.. if NYC gave every homeless person that money directly.. they could afford nearly 2 years of rent.. most of them wouldn't be homeless anymore.. instead the money goes to the system.. the system keeps running.. the homelessness stays.. and every year they ask for more funding to manage the problem that the funding was supposed to solve.. the homeless are worth $81,705 a year to the system.. they're worth nothing to it solved..



Scientists discovered a giant new species of stick insect in Australia, which is over 15 inches long and researchers say may be the heaviest insect in the country.
