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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think the thing that would help the most would be to get rid of single family only zoning. That should result in a lot more, higher density housing being built. However, that's not going to bring down the price of single family homes. In fact, it would probably make them more expensive. Maybe not everyone would think that's such a good thing, but it's absolutely necessary if we want to reduce car dependency.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

In-city land owning GenX here: YIMBY through and through. Been fighting for it at the city level for decades now.

I hate how stupid and short sighted so many people are. Selfishness has destroyed our cities, gutted our neighborhoods, and given our cities over to monopolies by driving out small and medium businesses. Cities and neighborhoods cannot be kept in amber. They either grow and adapt or they die.

Let's start building our city core through dense housing, removing automobiles (they don't make cities better, and they certainly destroy them), and making places for people instead of asphalt wastelands.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

What a bunch of BS. Kamala Harris is pushing rent control -- the complete opposite of Yimby.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

If you own more than 10 properties or for corporate ownership is when this applies.
Is a better way to manage collusion and a few corporations cornering rental markets.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago

Has nothing to do with the number of properties. The rule would apply to any owner having at least 50 units under management. A single mid-sized apartment building might qualify.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Well, I'm not really sorry for "small landlords owning small buildings" of 50 or more units under management.

That's not small by any measure and totally against YIMBY.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago

If your defining yimby as a synonym for pro-developer then yeah I guess. If your defining yimby as just opposed to Nimbys and their exclusionary zoning policies like single family housing, parking minimums, etc. to keep there property values up then rent control is fine as it's not Nimbys but working class people pushing for it, not to restrict supply but to just stay in there homes.

Yimbyism can be an effective political strategy if you keep it contained to attacking rich property owners on behalf of the working/renting class. If you start opposing things like rent control that helps large portions of renters who stay in a place long term then the movement falls apart in infighting.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago

Yimby is about removing the red-tape that prevents development. There is no bigger red-tape than rent-control. Even if all other restrictions, such as SFH zoning, were removed it wouldn't matter because nobody will build in areas with rent control.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Except in all the countries with rent control where people still build houses?

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