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Andy Marks's avatar

This is why local governments shouldn’t have control over housing rules. Local officials are elected by a small number of people and answer to an even smaller number when they’re in office. NIMBYs are very well organized and will always show up and the incentives local officials have all point to giving them what they want.

The key is to elect YIMBYs to the legislature and statewide offices. Newsom has been fairly good on housing, but I worry about who’s coming up next. That’s true not just on housing but also on things like automated vehicles. There have been efforts by the Teamsters to kill AVs and Newsom has vetoed them and I really hope his successor is like that.

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Steve Stats's avatar

Ugh... It feels like sometimes you really need to elect a good a-hole who is willing to make people unhappy to do the right thing. (To be fair, I would not be that person either).

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