today’s fancy housing is tomorrow’s affordable housing. After 20 yrs of building nothing we don’t have enough of either. We may indeed need to build social housing - but we should also build a ton of market rate shit stat
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We’ve had a ton of new building in the last 20 years. Look at any neighborhood in a major metropolitan city
aug 30, 2025, 10:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Also there’s literally no building in the vast majority of neighborhood s which are just single family homes for rich homeowners
aug 30, 2025, 10:43 pm • 0 0 • view
They’re single family homes for people who earned the money to afford and should be allowed to live as they want. I can see that you’re one of those urbanists who want the homeless to disappear and to shove everyone else into little boxes stacked one on another
aug 30, 2025, 10:51 pm • 0 0 • view
We can have all of this...we can have affordable homes, and livable cities - but we have a class of people who are sucking up all the resources for their own private realms. People who think they deserve it because they believe they created it all. We can have this - we need a better system.
aug 31, 2025, 3:53 am • 0 0 • view
You’re probably a plant from California YIMBY and I refuse to argue with you any further.
aug 30, 2025, 10:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Ah I see - precious homeowners… got it
aug 30, 2025, 10:54 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m a city dweller who lives in LA without a car and want a livable city fuck
aug 30, 2025, 10:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Then I suggest you move out of LA and consider getting better job. And watch your mouth
aug 30, 2025, 10:54 pm • 0 0 • view
My daughter lives down the street and she is also a pedestrian/transit user. We are embedded in the community here. The young people need housing.
aug 30, 2025, 11:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Look at the number of units per year - we have never gotten back to the level of 2008 and we build like a tenth of what we built in the 1940s
aug 30, 2025, 10:40 pm • 0 0 • view
I do look at the numbers very closely. 2003-08 is not a realistic example as most of the building was don’t on spec to drive up prices which tanked the mortgage market. Subtract that insanity and you’ll see steady growth.
aug 30, 2025, 10:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Zoom out to see like the 1980s - we’re nowhere near!! It’s 100 percent a supply problem due to exclusionary zoning.
aug 30, 2025, 10:52 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s like you’re reading fight off their website
aug 30, 2025, 10:53 pm • 0 0 • view
I think they are mostly right- although I think we may also need social housing to complete the picture
aug 30, 2025, 11:01 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m completely in favor of social housing and it’s disgusting that we don’t have it. But what they are doing in this country now is bastardizing that principle
aug 30, 2025, 11:05 pm • 1 0 • view
We abandoned the idea in the 80s I think. Probably worth a second look
aug 30, 2025, 11:08 pm • 1 0 • view
They do, absolutely. But it needs to be done HONESTLY to benefit the people who need it. Not by politicians and developers looking to make a fortune
aug 30, 2025, 11:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Almost all the the housing we have was built by ppl trying to make a buck! It’s a pretty risky business
aug 30, 2025, 11:07 pm • 1 0 • view
No!!! fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CABPP...
aug 30, 2025, 10:50 pm • 0 0 • view
The unhoused don’t have 20 years to wait. And it would be better to break up the private equity monopolies owning the majority of the rentals. They keep manufacturing this housing shortage to justify more units.
aug 30, 2025, 10:35 pm • 5 0 • view
The state should mandate an honest assessment of vacant units and they’ll find it’s not the quantity but the price causing the ‘housing shortage’
aug 30, 2025, 10:35 pm • 3 0 • view
This is an urban myth - vacancy rates are historically low in CA - landlords have no incentive to keep places empty, they are not fools.
aug 30, 2025, 10:38 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s not an urban myth, it’s a fact. Landlords in the traditional sense don’t, private equity owners do. It’s called profit versus loss. Every vacant unit equals a write off. The days of mom and pop landlords are gone
aug 30, 2025, 10:42 pm • 1 0 • view
nope. Write offs are losses- there is no way that private equity benefits from writing off losses. I think that PE owns maybe 10% of rentals in US / much lower here in LA - do you have a cite?
aug 30, 2025, 10:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep, you’re one of YIMBY’s mouthpieces, I’ve seen the graphs before. It might work on corrupt planners but no sale here. Take your gentrification elsewhere
aug 30, 2025, 10:53 pm • 2 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 12:20 am • 0 0 • view
The graphs are from FRED - that’s where you go to find any kind of data It’s a service of the St Louis Fed. Check out the price of corn over the decade…. I wasn’t radicalized by CA YIMBY - I spent some time in Valencia Spain - came home and gave away my car. Working for safe streets and density
aug 30, 2025, 10:58 pm • 0 0 • view
And now you want to blame people with houses because you chose to give away your car and work as an advocate? Sounds like a positive life choice but it comes with limitations that you have to weigh out while letting others live as they choose
aug 30, 2025, 11:02 pm • 1 0 • view
I think that we need to allow more density - so ppl in houses might get renters for neighbors. They are very organized against building housing. I think their fears are misplaced
aug 30, 2025, 11:04 pm • 0 0 • view
I think making better use of land for new development is the answer. If you plunk a 4 plex next to a home that someone worked their ass off to pay for, it’s going to generate friction
aug 30, 2025, 11:09 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t think density is the answer. Everyone should have right to a little green patch, a glimpse of the sky and a tree here and there
aug 30, 2025, 11:07 pm • 4 0 • view