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Nope. Repeal residential zoning restrictions (e.g. allow smaller lots and allow greater density). Residential zoning (protectionist supply control for incumbent homeowners) and rent control (protectionist price control for incumbent renters) are mirror images of each other and should either both be allowed or both be prohibited - government should not pick sides or choose winners and losers by allowing only one but not the other.
The only way to significantly increase the housing inventory in San Francisco is by displacing more of the poor and middle class, or by turning the City into a soulless clone of Manhattan by replacing most of the existing housing with skyscrapers. Something tells me you have never been to San Francisco or you wouldn't suggest such a thing
Humans are hierarchical social animals and thus classist. Liberals at least are willing to tax us in order to house the poor and non-white Somewhere Else.
Apparently not when it means taxing themselves, hence... San Francisco's huge homeless problem.
It's the liberals who claim to be inclusive. I'd like to see evidence of that. Blue states have the highest segregation rates and the highest income/wealth inequality rates. Let's see liberals turn that around and give us examples of how their ideology works to create more equality for all.
It's the liberals who claim to be inclusive. I'd like to see evidence of that. Blue states have the highest segregation rates and the highest income/wealth inequality rates. Let's see liberals turn that around and give us examples of how their ideology works to create more equality for all.
Maybe blue states --> larger welfare state --> greater sense of entitlement --> expanded underclass / culture of poverty --> middle class / white flight ???
Where would it stop? If they funded the poor and the homeless, when would the incoming flow end?
You're beginning to understand the problem of taxing the productive to fund an exponentially increasing noncontributing population who receive a financial incentive to remain noncontributing.
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