California’s housing crisis: how a bureaucrat pushed to build

Re:California’s housing crisis: how a bureaucrat pushed to b... by davidw on Friday February 14, 2020 @02:53PM (#22329725)

This is an issue that actually doesn't align very well on the liberal/conservative spectrum. Most of the YIMBY folks I've met tend towards the liberal end of things, but there are also "market urbanism" groups out there that are fairly libertarian. I've had great conversations with local politicians of all stripes. There are both liberals and conservatives who are very NIMBY.

In other words, it's not a very useful way to look at the issue in my opinion.

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Re:California’s housing crisis: how a bureaucrat pushed to b... by XMPPwocky on Friday February 14, 2020 @03:23PM (#22330043)

Just to clarify- I very much do not mean "liberal" as "the opposite of conservative", here.

Trying to map the high-dimensional "vector space" of political views onto a 1D line is very, very lossy, and definitely not useful outside of the very narrow context of general elections in a two-party system.

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