Most of these people want to feel good, they don't actually want to do good. Everyone would be rushing into burning buildings to save someone, diving into sub-zero temperature water through the ice to grab the person who fell in, sacrificing their wealth to make the world better, etc. Because if it was fuckin' easy, everyone would be a do-gooder. They're too fucking cowardly to come right out and say it, which is why I not only have no respect for these people, it's why I call them out on their bullshit - to their face - every single chance I get. > You don't build affordable cars, you just build carsĮntirely too many areas of California are opposed to new housing developments because it's going to lower their property values. This is basically how most residential projects end up getting stonewalled. You get significantly more bang for your buck that way as private finance markets have much more money than is available from the government.Īdvocating for "affordable housing" is really just an excuse to oppose housing as you can always claim that a project isn't sufficiently "affordable". Not unless you do something like Singapore, which sells their affordable housing, permitting individual purchasers to leverage private market financing. We can use policy and public funding to fill in the cracks, but "building affordable housing" doesn't actually make any sense at scale.
How about we just let real estate developers build housing.
Similarly, plenty of countries have tried to build affordable cars, but they're only sustainable by limiting imports as market-rate cars end up being preferable, both new and used. We've spent the past 30 years tearing down those "projects". There have been attempts at building affordable housing at large scale. You don't build affordable cars, you just build cars, which end up becoming "affordable" in the used car market. At least, not in the way "affordable" is used by progressives. The problem here is that you can't really build "affordable housing" any more than you can build "affordable cars". willing to have affordable housing built in your neighborhood.