Can a new mayor fix San Francisco’s housing and homelessness problems?

Re:Can a new mayor fix San Francisco’s housing and homelessn... by adrianratnapala on Thursday May 31, 2018 @06:40PM (#17200959)

Anti-cartelling usually works by trying to prevent agreements, associations etc. from forming, it is taken as a given given that the players have some incentive to do that. You can't do this for towns, because the association already exists in the form of the local government.

That doesn't you are wrong to look at it from a incentive point point-of-view. It's just that thinking in terms of cartels might not help you much.

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Re:Can a new mayor fix San Francisco’s housing and homelessn... by luddaite on Thursday May 31, 2018 @07:04PM (#17201113)

If you think of city/town governments as legal cartels then can't you think of the approach in SB 827 as an action by the government to regulate what the cartels can/can't do? The analogy probably falls apart if you push it any farther but it is interesting to think about.

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Re:Can a new mayor fix San Francisco’s housing and homelessn... by adrianratnapala on Thursday May 31, 2018 @11:06PM (#17202287)

Yep, the cartel model is probably good for understanding things like SB 827. Of course the straightforward interpretation is also correct: the bill was an argument about what powers different levels of government should wield.

Perhaps the cartel idea gives guidance here: power should be held at a level high enough that the electorate doesn't represent the interest of a cartel. (Since as we all know, special interests never have special access to the corridors of power at high level).

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