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Re:The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong by jordanb on Friday August 01, 2025 @02:36PM (#44760667)
As an example when I was active in housing in Chicago one of the organizations that was with us on the left was a developer of affordable housing: https://www.bickerdike.org/

Several of the activist actually worked for this developer.

Real leftist housing rights supporters are not against developers. They are against for-profit, private equity, land banking speculators, and yeah nimby homeowners. In general we hated the Oak Park type nimby liberal more than we hated the right to be honest.

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Re:The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong by pj_mukh on Friday August 01, 2025 @03:33PM (#44761352)
“leftist housing rights supporters are not against developers.”

They certainly are in my neighborhood.

https://www.ourneighborhoodvoices.com/48-hills-cost-of-growt...

The “private developer risk” the article derides is an enforceable approval timeline that lets private developers have bounded risk. Apparently that’s a bridge too far.

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Re:The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong by Hammershaft on Friday August 01, 2025 @04:26PM (#44762109)
In a market system, Creating a system that is "against for profit" housing developers very predictively restricts housing supply & drives up the cost of living for everyone.
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