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@__Baxter_

I write about solving our housing crisis from a housing abundance perspective. More Homes • Better Cities.

San Diego, CA Katılım Haziran 2010
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Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist@UrbanCourtyard·
@JAldrichPL I dunno … seems like the neighborhood stadia do well where they exist here (rare) and in europe (more common). I think as cities densify, and the premium for walkable neighborhoods increases, we will start seeing more mixed use fine-grained stadium districts
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GJ@jjb808·
@__Baxter_ @UziCryptoo Seniors do not want to leave their homes. We certainly do not want to go to a senior living with continuing care.
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Uzi
Uzi@UziCryptoo·
PROPERTY TAXES IN AMERICA HAVE GONE TOO FAR. My parents paid off their house in 2005. They are in their 70s. They still write a $11,000 check to the county every single year just to keep living in it. That makes no sense. At some point owning a home should actually mean owning it. This kind of burden is rare outside the U.S.
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Kbroc1
Kbroc1@baltech99·
@__Baxter_ @UziCryptoo I live in the country, no trash pick up, no city water/sewer. Raised my kids paid my taxes and finally paid off my house why do I have to jeep paying property taxes? The state does nothing for me at this point.
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Jarrett Walker
Jarrett Walker@humantransit·
Transit agencies not only need to develop unused parking around their stations. They also deserve to profit from that development, so that they can fund better services without needing so much tax revenue. This should be the conservative position!
Marc Joffe@marcjoffe

Why is BART designing housing when it is supposed to be facing a financial crisis? Just sell the parking lots to a developer and let that company take on the work and the risk. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

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Uzi
Uzi@UziCryptoo·
@__Baxter_ Nobody said seniors shouldn’t contribute. The issue is tying that bill to a home’s rising value instead of a retiree’s actual ability to pay.
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Dick Lucas 🇺🇸
Dick Lucas 🇺🇸@dickclucas·
Fine, our major cities in CA have decided they don’t want to build housing or attract investment. They are frozen in time NIMBY zombie museums. At least legalize new cities. Pass the trailer bill for @CAForever. We need to learn to build again.
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John Slagboom 🇺🇸
John Slagboom 🇺🇸@JohnSlagboom1·
Your worldview and philosophy of government is in fundamental opposition to mine, you want to surrender more of yourself and more of your money to the government because you trust, or at least you hope, it will be responsible with those things. I do not, and it is demonstrable why you shouldn't. I want the minimum viable check for legitimate and secure elections, you want a federal biometric database of your and everyone else's irises. We can totally trust the government with that, there's never been any data breaches or misuse of data, oh wait, China, the CIA, etc etc etc... Yeah, no thanks.
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Russ Greene
Russ Greene@GreenPlusAnE·
how bad does it have to get before we make seniors pay the same taxes as everyone else, and stop bankrupting America to keep spending more on Medicare and Social Security? another 10 years of this?
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More Homes • Better Cities 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇾
More Homes • Better Cities 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇾@__Baxter_·
This is what Claude says about fraud prevention and voter suppression: Not detectably. Cantoni and Pons tested this directly in the same study: strict ID laws had no effect on measurable fraud — and interestingly, no effect on perceived fraud either, undercutting the argument that they at least boost voter confidence. Context helps explain why. The type of fraud photo ID can stop — in-person impersonation, showing up pretending to be someone else — is extremely rare. Tracking efforts (e.g., Justin Levitt's review) found on the order of a few dozen credible cases across more than a billion ballots cast. Most documented fraud involves absentee/mail ballots, registration issues, or ballot harvesting, none of which in-person ID requirements address. So the empirical picture is symmetric and a bit deflating for both sides of the debate: strict ID laws don't measurably suppress turnout, and they don't measurably reduce fraud — largely because the fraud they target barely exists to begin with. Sources: Cantoni & Pons, QJE · NBER working paper version
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Blake Miller
Blake Miller@ImBlake·
This is definitely happening and will drive costs of rides to zero. But it'll be the brands that extend their experience inside the vehicle that really win and people will probably pay for.
Teslaconomics@Teslaconomics

Just my 2 cents of what I’ve been thinking about lately… I could one day see companies eventually sponsoring Tesla Robotaxi rides, which could quietly create an entirely new business for Tesla. Imagine opening the Tesla app and seeing a sponsored ride from a company like McDonald’s, Nike, Apple, Coca-Cola, or Netflix. A brand could cover part, or even all, of your fare in exchange for getting its name/products in front of riders. Everyone wins in this situation. Riders pay less, brands get customers through the door, and Tesla creates another high-margin revenue stream on top of the ride itself. Companies could also sponsor themed Cybercabs with custom wraps, offer exclusive discounts during the ride, or reward loyalty members with ride credits. For example, a restaurant could offer a free ride home after dinner. A retailer could sponsor rides to a shopping center during the holidays. Events, concerts, and sports teams could cover transportation for fans. And since Tesla controls the vehicles, the software, and the app, it can tie the entire experience together in a way traditional ride-hailing companies simply can’t. The awesome thing is that this will not require Tesla to reinvent anything… once the Robotaxi network reaches meaningful scale, adding sponsorships would mostly be a software and business development opportunity. It could help lower ride prices, increase demand, keep vehicles busier, and generate additional high-margin revenue with relatively little added $ cost. Tesla hasn’t announced anything like this, so it’s just an idea today. But it feels like one of those obvious opportunities that becomes much more valuable as the Robotaxi network grows into the millions. The autonomous transportation business alone is super exciting, but if Tesla can layer advertising and brand partnerships on top, it could unlock another meaningful revenue stream that many investors are probably not thinking about today.

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Albert Clifford
Albert Clifford@albert_cli19951·
@SteveOnSpeed Places like Los Angeles do greatly freeze property taxes too. Regardless - I don’t support rent control, but I also don’t support property taxes being pegged to a phantom value of property. At this point, I think the best fix is to just eliminate prop taxes. Shock the system
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Steve · Millionaire Habits
Steve · Millionaire Habits@SteveOnSpeed·
"I support rent control!" Cool, so you also support freezing property taxes forever? "That's different." It's literally the same logic. "…" Price controls for thee, but not for the government. Got it.
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Common Wealth 🍁
Common Wealth 🍁@CommonWealth_ca·
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson backs LVT
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Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist@UrbanCourtyard·
With the ROAD act, HUD now has a statutory basis to publish: FHA-compliant point-access templates. Accessibility diagrams for 8-, 12-, 18-, and 24-unit buildings. Best-practice guidance showing how compact, family-oriented point-access buildings satisfy both accessibility and life-safety requirements. :)
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More Homes • Better Cities 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇾
More Homes • Better Cities 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇾@__Baxter_·
There are not. In the south, they required voter ID and then shut down the driver's license office in 20 majority-black counties. Why add extra hoops to jump through? (A: to suppress the vote). We should have automatic registration as they do in some European states. Iris scans should be available as an option. If integrity is genuinely your concern, you would agree. Just prove who you are once. Didn’t we vote for 200+ years without voter ID laws?
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John Slagboom 🇺🇸
John Slagboom 🇺🇸@JohnSlagboom1·
@__Baxter_ @GreenPlusAnE @kingxtwink There are entire programs dedicated to helping the very people you are worried about being “disenfranchised” from voting to get their birth certificates, government ID, etc.. Giving the government ADDITIONAL biometrics is not beneficial to anyone, except Mother Dearest.
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More Homes • Better Cities 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇾
More Homes • Better Cities 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇾@__Baxter_·
I agree! We only need to do it once with iris scans and all the other information that is readily available to the state. Don’t make someone find a birth certificate if the state already has it in their database. States can cooperate, so when someone registers in one state, it will inactivate them in the other. We don’t need to make it difficult for voters, which is bad faith per se.
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John Slagboom 🇺🇸
John Slagboom 🇺🇸@JohnSlagboom1·
lol dude…. Why do you want non American citizens to vote? What was your position on COVID papers, or, even sillier, Olive Garden’s ID requirements for their pasta pass? Ensuring only American Citizens vote in American Elections is the most normie, basic take, it’s common sense.
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