Cory in San Francisco retweetledi
Step 1: mandate every city go back to the zoning and land use rules they had in place in 1930.
𝐓𝐗𝐌𝐂@TXMCtrades
@micsolana And how do you propose lowering the cost of housing?
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@coryfromphilly
The 1960 Comprehensive Plan and its consequences have been a disaster for Philadelphians
SF | Spiritually in Philly Katılım Mart 2018
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Cory in San Francisco retweetledi
See, this is the problem with ever doing any kind of welfare through the tax code.
You do something nice for a sympathetic old lady like exempt most of her wealth from taxes, and she and her heirs feel entitled to it into perpetuity like a medieval title.
Ramin Ekhtiar@raminrealtalk
Nobody bought it. Nobody sold it. She just died in it. $1,300 a year to $18,000. Overnight. That's Prop 19. You voted for it in 2020. @RaminRealTalk?sub_confirmation=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@RaminRealTalk…
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Cory in San Francisco retweetledi
Wow this marshmallow sure looks tasty I hope it’s not a test of my character
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@evanjconrad Philly doesn't even have $500/mo rents unless you split a rowhome with like 4 people.
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@evanjconrad $500/mo is a stretch. Oakland rent is the best equivalent, so like $1500 for a 1 bd.
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this post is so polarizing because people literally seem to think its impossible to make prices go down; this city literally builds superintelligence but cannot imagine upzoning to minor european levels of density
evan conrad@evanjconrad
anyone want to help fund getting this exact billboard up on the highway in sf
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@otterbo54348271 @SFMTA_Muni @bilalmahmood @DanielLurie @DannySauter Better than Philly where buses board and exit every single block. There is no stop consolidation at all.
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Terrible stop spacing strategy @SFMTA_Muni. Even the most casual non-expert observer visiting for 2 days could identify this as awful.
Stop consolidation would save money and speed up transit + boost ridership, where is the progress ?@bilalmahmood @DanielLurie @DannySauter
Mallrat@Mallrat9000
@maxdubler @otterbo54348271 @AbbyNormalSF @SFMTA_Muni 22 Fillmore is the same, it's insane. Every block and a half on short blocks.
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Cory in San Francisco retweetledi
Zohran shouldn't arrest Netanyahu he should send a social worker to tell him about the harm he's caused.
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@Thrivin096 Yes that needs to happen, but you could also build local expertise by just aligning incentives for transit agencies better.
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@coryfromphilly Eh, I think the issues with agencies like septa won’t be solved by paying execs more they just need more funding. Hiring European and Asian transit experts would be nice though
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Along this line, I saw a few weeks ago that SEPTA's GM makes less than an L6 software engineer in SF ($395k/yr).
SEPTA is a $1.5B/yr spending company and brings in $500M+ in revenue each year. The GM should be making at least $5M/yr to manage such an enterprise, if not more.
Cory in San Francisco@coryfromphilly
We should probably have such incentives baked into government work. Public transit executives should get bonuses for hitting OKRs such as on time performance, ridership growth, budget discipline, etc.
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Cory in San Francisco retweetledi
Not coincidentally, American housing features a lot of capitalism (profit-seeking investors play a leading role in all aspects of the sector) but almost no free markets.
slowboring.com/p/to-save-capi…
Avery James@averyfjames
People like free markets significantly more than capitalism. echeloninsights.substack.com/p/friday-findi…
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Sunset Dunes is a great example of hyper localism. We are a city of 800k people. The Great Highway being closed did not impact traffic at all. It is 2 miles long. Drivers have access to the Sunset Blvd. Yet Wong is capitulating.
District Supes need to be abolished. At large only
Harry Mok@HarryMok
Should San Francisco spend $14M to reopen the Great Highway? Supervisor Wong calls it the 'No. 1 issue' for his constituents. What do you think? My @sfc_opinions @sfchronicle column/newsletter sfchronicle.com/opinion/articl…
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The New Deal, something Democrats are supposrdly proud of, is something only achievable today under Abundance institutions.
Nothing is radical about it. A change, yes, but not radical. Democrats are unwilling to do good things for Americans.
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Abudance would be a big shift in politics but it is not "radical". Allowing people to build housing and energy is deeply rooted in American history, from the free market in housing that built the expensive pre-war cities and suburbs we love, to the post-war boom in infrastructure
Basil🧡@LinkofSunshine
Torres: “I think Abundance is a very radical idea. I think more than maybe [Ezra Klein] realized. Taken to its extent, while not ideological, it would be a radical change in politics. So it can’t be something we demand in purity”
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Cory in San Francisco retweetledi
Trump’s obsession with cutting government waste becomes funnier when you go to DC and realize he pays the national guard to do fuck all 24/7
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@_literallyabear The US military tends to be more meritocratic than the civilian government, no?
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@coryfromphilly Tbf the us military doesn’t have any explicit profit structure and it still is able to do all of these things. It helps that it’s because we throw a dump truck of money at it to set up the right institutions and hire the right people but still.
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Aside from the knowledge problem, one of the big issues with central planning is that the profit and loss system creates incentives to provide food, education, medicine, etc., in a net beneficial way to society.
There is no such mechanism for the government.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
You could have a society where everyone lives in public housing but you would still “have a landlord,” it would just be some kind of public agency.
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Cory in San Francisco retweetledi
So yes, boomers are the enemy, but at the same time we don't have to fight over a fixed pie.
Allowing people to build more housing would solve this issue.
High Yield Harry@HighyieldHarry
In my best efforts to be a unifying force, I keep saying 20-40 year olds shouldn’t be going at each other w/ left/right differences & should instead come together & realize boomers are the actual enemy
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I'm not a mechanism design guy, but it seems possible to design incentive structures at quasi-public agencies like transit orgs to improve outcomes for ""customers".
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Most of that pay should be tied to bonuses for hitting OKRs.
Senior leadership at SEPTA should also be highly compensated, but also easily fired and hired, just like a corporation.
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