Re:‘I don’t want to become San Francisco’: Urban woes spur s...
by thephyber on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @04:26AM
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I would agree with your points.
But my point was that renters and landlords get the same number of votes each, even if they use them at different rates.
Playing the long game is difficult and benefits people who aren’t starving or trying to hustle just to make rent this month.
1. renters are less invested in the local politics given their more flexible and transient nature, therefore they care and vote less than people who have assets and multi-decade skin in the game 2. voters aged 45+ are less likely to be renters, given lowered likelihood of moving with age, and the higher likelihood of having locked in cheap real estate decades earlier. Those voters also tend to vote more 3. therefore renters are far less represented in elections
Entirely possible the above is wrong, there might be data showing otherwise.