Los Angeles wrote an “emergency declaration” to address the housing crisis that somewhat accidentally *actually unleashed a torrent of applications to build* and now the city is furiously backpedaling.

The best time to plant trees in your city’s streets was 30 years ago. The second best time is now.

This is a good thread but I disagree with the word 'failure.'

SF housing policy is designed to strangle housing production. San Fransicans hate housing production. And they wrote laws to limit.

The system is working as it was intended to work.

Let me help you out Kim: 1-bedrooms rent for $4000 now and tens of thousands of people are shut out of homeownership entirely because we don’t have enough homes where people want to live. So you are experiencing a paradigm shift in politics to build more homes.

Good.

A little old lady who plowed into an entire family in broad daylight, killed a little girl, sent her father to the ICU and devastated the family forever got community service and a driving class. She did not lose money, freedom or even her car or DRIVER’S LICENSE. She’ll be back.

The price of housing is set by supply and demand. If we want rents and home prices to become affordable to middle class Californians, we need to build more homes in the places people want to live.

The relationship between vacancy rates and housing prices is easy to understand.

When housing demand outstrips supply, the vacancy rate drops and rents go up.

When supply exceeds demand, the opposite happens.

To make homes affordable. build new homes where people want to live.

We don't talk enough about how ADA was actually one of the best things the U.S. ever did.

Cities doing everything to stop the housing crisis while dodging the one thing they need to do to stop the housing crisis (upzoning)

When your business scrupulously pays its taxes.

This is a really great thread.