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I have an interest in relaxing zoning so I can build. You can't even listen to someone deeply involved in a system telling you how it is broken, or what the incentives you are suggesting will lead to.

* Rent control privatizes the cost of a social problem (poor housing policy)

* Restrictive zoning and other barriers to building are why housing is expensive, this includes historic preservation and permitting too

* Parking minimums are a scourge

If your entire policy is some nimby reach around for single family home owners, I'm not sure anything I say will help you. I literally want to use my money to build more housing. I would also love to unwind all the distortions that currently exist (rent control).

If TiC collectives were a good solution we would see them more in the market. Your solution is just to ruin a market to make it work the way you want, but honestly, people are broke and cannot afford to buy. That also creates so many weird externalities that you seem to be unwilling to discuss.

Goodluck creating a single family home parking lot filled hellscape. I'll be adding units to the market (reducing rents) while you are complaining in la la land.




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