
Salim
@s_damerdji
California housing policy & politics
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28-03-2020 15:57:59
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.Ezra Klein is right that California has messed up housing. We should admit it. We need less restrictive zoning laws & say yes to more building. YIMBY. Reform Prop 13 which capped property tax to a 2% increase, disincentivizing cities from building housing & decreasing turnover.


Thank you Senator Lena Gonzalez for supporting SB 79!

Chris Elmendorf Given that the US can't seem to do supply-side subsidies even remotely efficiently in any form, shouldn't refocus all of our efforts on removing regulatory barriers to supply (which is zero-cost) and reallocating all of this money to turn Section 8 into an entitlement?



An update on California's CEQA / housing package as we hurtle toward the finish line. tldr: Buffy Wicks's CEQA infill exemption is now *even better* than the 6/24 draft ⤵️; and it looks like Senator Scott Wiener will land most of the fish in SB 607 but not the real lunker. 🧵/25

This is huge news. For years now San Francisco Planning has been saying its proposed rezoning can’t get bigger because of CEQA. That excuse is now gone.

