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Though housing costs were a big aspect this election, I noticed the simplest and cheapest solutions were ignored.
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California has the nation’s highest housing costs. Some blame a housing shortage; others, government policies. We sit down with experts to explore what’s driving costs and discuss the state-mandated Housing Development initiative and why some cities push back.
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I'm a one-man site development engineer GRINDING away at getting things permitted. You just wouldn't believe how granular "local requirements" are. And I'm in TX where the laws are supposed to be "light weight".
I cannot imagine what its like in CA.
The regulatory
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- Los Angeles faces a severe housing shortage, worsened by fires that destroyed over 16,000 homes, delaying permitting processes further and potentially extending delays from months to years.
- Current policies fast-track only identical rebuilds, leaving families seeking safer
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has been working on implementing Land Value Capture Tax here in BC. Even has been supportive of the idea!
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Common Wealth 
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Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel calls the US, UK and Canada a "Georgist real estate catastrophe".
A giant wealth transfer from younger/working class to older/landowners.
He supports taxing land (over other things) to fix housing and the economy.
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exposing the darkness of the housing crisis... while everyone else plays in the shadows 
the real horror story is ignoring the obvious solutions
the real horror story is ignoring the obvious solutions
Meh third party reviews is like making a committee to discuss allegations. Sadly though it can be helpful for about 2 weeks. After that it becomes a google search, and a reliable outcome with next to zero innovation, the same thing you are trying to avoid by involving a third
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Did you see the reports on the current abuses using imminent domain? 
ocregister.com/2025/02/27/emi
Summary of your article:
ocregister.com/2025/02/27/emi
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Jenny
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A PROVEN Way…
…to EASE LA’s HOUSING CRISIS
States around the country are showing Southern California how to rebuild.
OP-ed by @Grimezsz @mnolangray & Nicole Nosek @TheAtlantic
Grimes et al. identifies key issues in the housing shortage. A problem years in the making x.com/grimezsz/statu…
Nice work Grimes! There is too much bureaucracy in the way of people living in buildings. Its so simple, our ancestors literally lived in a range of structures from caves to tents and somehow a politician says you cant camp on land you own! Insane!!
Here's the solution: tax land instead of buildings or income.
Make land a worse investment and reward productivity and construction.
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Common Wealth
@CommonWealth_ca
PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel supports taxing land (over other things) to fix housing and the economy.
"I always think the more concrete economic thing to try to focus on are things like housing, real estate... I'm always very partial to the theories of Henry George."
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This is fantastic! Only person I'm aware of who producers bangers both of the music and housing policy variety.
Doesn’t your friend have millions invested in development and rental prop tech though?
It’s so cool to see you actually putting yourself out there, doing the work, trying to make real changes, instead of just whining on some podcast about how bad everything is. So Joan of Arc-ish of you!
I'm all about these things, but most solutions being touted are overpriced. Some of it may be due to a lack of knowledge, awareness, creativity, etc., but a lot of it goes back to anything and everything being an opportunity to rob the community chest to enrich those involved.
Read Abigail Shrier’s article exploring the unique advantages of Trump's controversial cabinet picks.
YIMBY ideas not only don't work but disproportionately harm communities of color, elderly people, and the disabled. You've been suckered by a front for greedy developers.
It pains me to have to be the one to tell you that we are taking you out back and giving you the Ole Yeller treatment 
Interesting choice in outlets
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Louis Allday
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Serial reminder that the editor of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, was an IDF prison guard who by his own admission personally assaulted Palestinian detainees. Everything it publishes, like this latest dross, must be viewed in that context.
Girl you are the absolute last person who should be speaking on this issue. You need less sycophantic aholes around you. Goddamn. Exhausting.
You dont know what you’re talking about, you are not an expert, increasing the density of altadena will ruin the neighborhood, stop larping u narc
No one cares what an out of touch, rich, drug addict, has to say about things that are not even an issue in their life. You know nothing of struggling. You know nothing of what it means to be poor with no where to live. Fuck off back to making mediocre music.
grimes tf u been girl? i want to get together and make crazy autistic babies please.
Try exponentially taxing every property in some oligarch/landlord’s portfolio
Fuck YIMBY and their garbage agenda
Tax In My Back Yard
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This is a Republican senator saying this. I'm alarmed too. But also mystified. Why is Trump so eager to help Putin? I wish I could feel sure that this is simply ignorance and impulsiveness and not something more sinister.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski
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This week started with administration officials refusing to acknowledge that Russia started the war in Ukraine. It ends with a tense, shocking conversation in the Oval Office and whispers from the White House that they may try to end all U.S. support for Ukraine. I know foreign
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a couple points, I guess:
1. Elon Musk is a good engineering manager; he knows intuitively what's possible for what cost
2. He's a bad every other kind of manager
3. More recently he started using drugs and that should handicap your predictions of his future performance
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Will Stancil
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The important thing to realize about Elon Musk is that he became the richest guy in history essentially because he was an internet meme - “real-life Tony Stark!” - so the value of any company he touched went through the roof. The joke is that he then turned out to be a dolt. x.com/moreperfectus/…
Just unfollowed my boss on his own platform
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NEXTA
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Elon Musk: "Zelenskyy destroyed himself in the eyes of the American people."
As someone who's normally pretty friendly and interested in prediction markets, this is ghoulish. It *significantly* lowers my confidence that can be trusted to hold my money or fairly rule on market outcomes.
Like genuinely, what the fuck is wrong with you?
