Will you build affordable housing as well? And not "luxury" housing, but housing that everyone can afford? Will you offer these homeless a way to become homed again? Will you help them? Because otherwise you are more like the felon than just your x posts.
Oh they have a GREAT affordable housing plan. Every luxury building must allow between 5 and 10% of their units to people making below 80% AMI provided they have stellar credit, make 3X the rent and a good references. NO HOMELESS PERSON CAN MEET THESE REQUIREMENTS.
So the next time smooth talking Gavin extols the affordable housing he’s created, that’s it right there. Spoken as a democrat who is NOT a member of the governor’s fan club
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
We’ve had a ton of new building in the last 20 years. Look at any neighborhood in a major metropolitan city
Also there’s literally no building in the vast majority of neighborhood s which are just single family homes for rich homeowners
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
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.
You’re probably a plant from California YIMBY and I refuse to argue with you any further.
Ah I see - precious homeowners… got it
I’m a city dweller who lives in LA without a car and want a livable city fuck
Then I suggest you move out of LA and consider getting better job. And watch your mouth
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.
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
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.
Zoom out to see like the 1980s - we’re nowhere near!! It’s 100 percent a supply problem due to exclusionary zoning.
It’s like you’re reading fight off their website
I think they are mostly right- although I think we may also need social housing to complete the picture
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
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
No!!! fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CABPP...
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.
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’
This is an urban myth - vacancy rates are historically low in CA - landlords have no incentive to keep places empty, they are not fools.
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
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?
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
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