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Re:California’s housing crisis: how a bureaucrat pushed to b... by goatinaboat on Friday February 14, 2020 @02:36PM (#22329546)
In theory perhaps but in practice a) it’s unreasonable to tell people for literally decades that homeownership is the path to security in retirement then move the goalposts and b) tech-driven wealth disparity is fully the root cause of this situation and if it were “corrected” through taxation we wouldn’t even have this problem
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Re:California’s housing crisis: how a bureaucrat pushed to b... by darkwizard42 on Saturday February 22, 2020 @05:56PM (#22393898)
It's not unreasonable... it's slowly becoming necessary. Someone will have to eat the bill and it's probably a distributed cost that we have to spread across everyone.

It's not just tech-driven...housing is expensive across the nation and taxing RSUs may help in SF, but doesn't really get to the root of the problem which is zoning restriction, high development costs, increased homeowner rights enabling NIMBYism

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