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The YIMBY point of view


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2018 May 29, 8:08pm   1,681 views  5 comments

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This guy does a good job of explaining the YIMBY point of view:

https://twitter.com/DavidL206/status/999766039893192704

This point in particular is kind of ironic:

4. In an environment of housing scarcity, landlords have so much leverage that they can completely hijack leftward progress. Wage increases, subsidized health care, and subsidized child care just end up allowing people to pay more for rent, and the landlords can & will demand it.

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1   BayArea   2018 May 29, 8:29pm  

Yes, point #4 is absolutely true.

In big metro cities, rents will be as high as people can afford to pay (as long as supply is at least slightly lower than demand)
2   FortWayne   2018 May 29, 8:59pm  

Left needs to stop subsidizing everything, and prices drop quick.

Stupid government extravagant spending causes inflation. Just like in Carter economy.
3   RWSGFY   2018 May 29, 9:32pm  

It's YIYBY, technically.
4   NDrLoR   2018 May 29, 9:37pm  

FortWayne says
Stupid government extravagant spending causes inflation. Just like in Carter economy.
I wasn't reading the WSJ in the 1970's, so a couple of years ago I went to the library and found the mid-70's issues and read through some of the commentary. There was a good article in about 1975 or 1976 by Vermont Royster (1914-1996) who was editor of the editorial page from 1958 to 1971. The gist of it was that regardless of how rich a country is, it can't afford to subsidize everything, which at that time in the beginning years of the Great Society seemed to pretty much be the philosophy and thus ten years later the country was ravaged by double digit inflation at the same time as economic stagnation, partially aided by the OPEC embargo, but the inflation was well underway beginning in the late 60's and OPEC just exacerbated it. By 1980 welfare spending was between 3% and 4% of GDP and peaked at 4.75 in 2010. It's something like 2.5% today.
5   BayArea   2018 May 29, 9:52pm  

Hassan_Rouhani says
It's YIYBY, technically


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