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One of the biggest errors we made was taking housing permitting out of the hands of bureaucrats and putting it into homeowners who obviously have a vested interest in seeing supply remain quite frankly under supplied.

— The Prof G Pod
6d ago

In almost every other area of public policy, we understand the value of prevention. We screen for cancer early because it saves lives and money. We reinforce bridges before the hurricanes hit. But when it comes to housing insecurity, we like to do the opposite. We prefer to wait until the crisis has already happened.

1w ago

Once a country decides its houses are supposed to make everyone rich, it has to keep prices rising forever, which means restricting supply, blocking development, and quietly pricing out each new generation, which works until it doesn't.

3mo ago

If you see your neighborhood as an amenity rather than like as a place in which like many people live and have to live coexisting lives, including people who are very different from you, make different amounts of money, people who look differently than you, then like that is a political perspective that is, you know, projected onto the world, and the dog is just a lens at looking at it.

5mo ago

One word answer, housing. It's the original sin in California. We're as dumb as we want to be for decades and decades. Uh we, you know, forgot about our seventh grade econ class. It's supply and demand. Uh and we simply were not uh creating enough supply and demand grew.

5mo ago

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