Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents

Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents by rootusrootus on Thursday March 19, 2026 @10:43AM (#47440389)

I occasionally wonder if it would be a net positive to make political office terms a little bit longer, but limited to exactly once. No reelection pressure.

Same part of my addled brain that thinks we should increase dramatically our count of representatives, abolish in-person legislating, and then fill the roles with sortition.

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Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents by ApolloFortyNine on Thursday March 19, 2026 @11:58AM (#47441574)

Things are so party focused nowadays I don't think the person behind the mask really even matters.

It might slightly help, you'd probably have less votes on giving themselves pay raises, but at the end of the day the majority of ads and voters are going to revolve around party lines.

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