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NIMBYism and anti-sprawl are: 1) running on the same fear, 2) breaking the same principle, 3) using the same playbook, 4) causing shortage and scarcity, and 5) spiraling downward. That’s why you cannot fix one and keep the other.

@Kaos_Vs_Control Yes and no. Yes, middle-class lives should be improved as the top priority. No, we are spending the money on frauds instead of helping people. Taxing and spending more via current mechanisms will make middle-class lives much worse.

Pete Hegseth: The problem with Iran is it spends money on weapons and missiles instead of improving life for their people. Self awareness of a potato

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@daniel_w_owens Cos YIMBY is also anti-suburbs: whoever setting up YIMBY want it to fail. Once an area is fully built, the next unit comes from demolition of the existing, which is costly. Density is also $$$$ on its own. To have a meaningful impact, it needs a new, area for people to move to.

The San Francisco “YIMBY” movement has been an utter failure. Since the movement first began: - Very little new housing has been built. - SF rents and property values are the most exorbitant in the country. We’re in the same mess we’ve been in. No improvement.

@The_Suburbanist @MorlockP That’s being say, since bureaucracies have an insatiable tendency to expand, any rules and regs should always been aimed to the utmost minimal.

@The_Suburbanist @MorlockP Yeah. Zoning is actually less bad than vague veto or env reg power that can evolve to mean anything. Without zoning, you will also see way more CC&R which are much harder to change. Objectively written zoning is a compromise.

Why I am not a libertarian: You choose to live in a quiet low-density suburb. "Zoning is a human rights violation" Apartment complex is built on the block. A new neighbor walks by exhaling marijuana smoke upwind of your windows. "Yay! Marijuana is legal!" A fire breaks out in the new building. "The state is illegitimate, and therefore so are its electrical codes."

@JMGregorchuk How about permit your cottage project and sell lots and let buyers build? I suppose special design the layout so no spam needs more than 2x12. It works for small houses.

California used to make it easy for average folks to build their own homes. I'd like us to get back there.

@Yung_Spengler @mmjukic I say, if they set the precedent and touch your “leaders”, revenge theirs. Or, have a duet and ends it quick. Leave the civilians alone.

Trump seems to be at a strategic impasse already. Remarkably, Iran still has many reserve cards to mirror any escalation: - Total wipeout of Gulf refineries - Hammering Israel’s industrial base - Deploying small boats/UUVs to hunt USN vessels - Houthis blockading Bab el Mandab

@ThinkAppraiser @grok O well, you can have the benefit of doubt. 🤨

@TomLeaf @grok 😂

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@buildhomez No. It looks ugly. About 8 years ago, CMs discussed it but passed no law because they couldn’t agree on solution. The “Make Amazon Pays” movement stop the high rise momentum anyway.

One reason Seattle has been able to build so many high rises is that it enforces a strict 400/440 height limit north of Downtown This creates a pleasing flat skyline, reducing pushback from NIMBYs if it were more jagged

@JordanGuatqui @LDS_Dems Most boomers housings came from new suburbs. It relieved the demands of city cores & making it cheaper too. When anti-suburbs took hold, it stopped the cycle. Retirees in city cores have no where to move to, so staying in area stopping redevelopement.

@TomLeaf @LDS_Dems That is exactly why I personally am both pro-density AND pro-sprawl. It needs to be easier to build ALL housing types, everywhere, to satisfy all preferences. The best cure for high prices is to just let the supply increase as naturally as possible.

The thing anti-density NIMBYS never understand is that denser urban areas... ...use less land ...thereby creating more open public spaces outside the city. Density is the antidote to sprawl. It creates more open space, not less.

@buildhomez I think it might be a short term housing. The list price is probably only good for the few months before school start in September, then regular price around $900 to $1100.

Single stair is supposedly legal in Seattle. But when buildings for students, developers often choose to build townhomes and rent out by the room. YIMBYs can't explain this, and they can't explain how it's brand new and rents for $758 per room for 85sqft rooms

@EstateBets1135 It wins like… every single time when government intervenes market…

Can someone explain the rationale for banning build-to-rent homes? What is the win…. For anybody?

@ramit I did a 30-parameters spreadsheet 20 years ago before I bought my first home. Just a 0.5% change in inflation projection changes the math. I haven’t run the numbers recently. But it boils down to the spread between interest rate and inflation.

The religion of homeownership is so powerful in America that if you simply encourage people to "run the numbers," people think you are against homeownership (Not an insult towards this person. Tens of thousands believe the same thing)

@Duderichy Anti-sprawl and NIMBY are twin siblings separated at birth, even when they hate each other. They’re both born out of the fear of change, and rise on the abandonment of property rights and gov veto power. You cannot have one without the other. Texas respects property rights…

NIMBYs keep telling me this isn't physically possible in SF and NYC

@kellyma_michael @ramit Always competing priorities vs. sometimes keeping up with the jones.

@TomLeaf @ramit Most folks should just have a deferred maintenance savings for outlier events. Most don't.

If your roof needs a $45,000 repair 20 years from now, that means you should be saving $2,250/year, or $187.50/month Do you do this? Almost nobody does A shortcut: Save 1%-3% of the price of the house -- PER YEAR -- for maintenance. For a $500K house, that's $10k/year

@MattTanner41 @bobbyfijan A large number of accounts keep quoting the same fallacies & some don’t seem to have a full time jobs otherwise. Urban renewal or growth is an extremely slow and costly process. It is necessary, but v misleading to say it will be affordable without new greenfield developments.

@TomLeaf @bobbyfijan Maybe but 90% of these accounts pushing this density shit created urban sprawl as a propaganda piece to make it easier to replace existing SFH’s with expensive condos because they’re lobbying for developers.

Austin … proving that greenfield development is good, actually (If your goal is lower housing prices)

@JacobAShell It is anti-sprawl that keep the are rural. The whole premise of anti-sprawl is creat artificial rural. NIMBY and Anti-sprawl are basically twin separated at birth, even they hate each other.

This is Martha's Vineyard. It's being kept "artificially rural" by Nimbies. It's very desireable and should be ultra-dense. There should be 40-story apartment towers everywhere. It should be like Macau. If you disagree then you're evil.