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Re:Can a new mayor fix San Francisco’s housing and homelessn... by dsfyu404ed on Thursday May 31, 2018 @03:36PM (#17199403)
People decades ago said exactly what you're saying and that's how we got local regulation. It turns out local regulation just entrenched the problems more deeply.

I've yet to hear a good reason why recursion is going to solve the problem instead of entrench it at the next level up.

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Re:Can a new mayor fix San Francisco’s housing and homelessn... by djajshgsjja on Thursday May 31, 2018 @06:10PM (#17200773)
Housing supply is in part a collective action problem. Lots of people will benefit from development somewhere else, but lose out from the local effect of development down the block. If the net effects of a development are positive, but the negative effects are concentrated whether local power can block the development, less development will happen and people are worse off overall.
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