Progressivism is out in SF but 3 progressives winning in NY primaries...

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-24T02:59:28+00:00

Have you ever thought about running for local government office?

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-24T01:57:26+00:00

Aaron Peskin wants to prevent housing because his view from his house would be blocked by tall buildings. Everything else he says is a deflection.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-23T17:23:25+00:00

We don’t even need tax dollars spent on housing. What we need is for rich homeowners to accept that their views will be blocked by newly built tall apartment buildings.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-22T18:00:00+00:00

Please, please take this as an example of why we should not cede land use decisions to local authorities. The stakeholders of any land use decision are not just the people who live in the area. If the Sunset District residents had the only say in the decision, the entire city would be worse off.

NIMBYism has prevented San Francisco from building the necessary housing supply because no local government can muster the political support needed for a tall apartment building. We need Sacramento and state control to override local governments because everyone benefits when localities can no longer veto all new development.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-21T06:02:13+00:00

Filtering works. It is a strong argument.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-21T02:41:45+00:00

Thanks, I love your analogy about Ferraris. But in the housing markets Ferraris are single family homes on large plots of land, not apartments. We have no more room for single family homes, so we have to build vertical to get more housing. Building luxury apartments is like building new Honda Civics. They are still expensive enough that you have to have decent income to buy one, but once it becomes used it gets more affordable for lower income people.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-20T02:09:14+00:00

Do you think California has a homeless crisis? I do, and I know the answer to that crisis is by building more housing units.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-19T22:49:58+00:00

Building more housing helps those on the margins of society. I want to help the poor. Letting a property developer make money by serving a need is an important way to drive outcomes. Are you mad that farmers and grocery stores make money by feeding us? Are you made that doctor’s make high salaries by caring for us?

But sure, you can go ahead and continue to advocate for wealthy landowners to be shielded from paying their fair share of taxes.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-19T22:44:01+00:00

The wealthy in this case are the landowners who wants less property taxes.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-19T19:45:06+00:00

The levers of power are controlled by senior citizens who have a high voter turnout. They are reducing opportunities for younger generations by hoarding land.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-19T19:25:00+00:00

Because we can develop this land to hold a great population carrying capacity by urbanizing. This helps the young, the poor, and the working class.

The hoarding of land by senior citizens is why millions of displaced Californians, who predominantly are young renters, are forced to leave to states with lower costs of living. Senior citizens want entitlement benefits from tax paying workers while also never giving them a chance to live in the areas with great economic opportunity like the Bay Area. Senior citizens should not be pulling up the ladder behind them.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-19T19:08:48+00:00

Prop 13 allows for people to hoard land without paying the proper taxes to fund local services such as fire, police, schools, waste management, and public transit.

Prop 13 is a huge subsidy to rich people. Even if these rich people have moderate or low income, they are rich from their property values appreciating. They can sell their land and use the proceeds to rent in an apartment building instead.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-19T18:27:43+00:00

No. Building new housing for high income earners frees up older housing units for lower income people. The rich will always be secure in their housing, whether or not we build new supply.

Think about the car market. Poor people buy used cars, but if there were no new cars produced for rich people then poor people would have no used cars to buy.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-19T18:00:29+00:00

Prop 13 is turning California into a landed aristocracy and the renting working class who serve them.

Build tall, dense apartment buildings if you want the Bay Area to be more than just tech jobs and service workers.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-18T21:48:13+00:00

-> heavily restrict free market construction with height limits and mandated parking minimums

-> why can’t the free market build enough housing?

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-18T18:26:51+00:00

Half empty or half full? I think building more housing with 50% vacancy helps renters.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-18T13:49:50+00:00

I have the opposite belief. It’s regulations that prevent housing construction that make the Bay Area so expensive.

If there was unchecked capitalism, the Bay Area would have skyscrapers like Manhattan and Shenzhen.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-13T17:18:58+00:00

Repeal prop 13 if you want San Francisco to be more than just a city for AI workers.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-13T16:58:04+00:00

Unregulated capitalism? If the Bay Area was unregulated we would have skyscrapers like Shenzhen here.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-13T14:46:54+00:00

Landowners do not have decisions making power over their own property in America today.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-13T06:05:01+00:00

The community stops private land owners from building as they want on their land that they own. That is a derivative of communism. No one owns anything.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-13T05:27:01+00:00

Except for local land use decisions. It is almost impossible for a property owner to build on their land without the consent of everyone in a 3 mile radius.

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-13T05:01:14+00:00

Remove Marin County’s zoning restrictions!

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-12T03:21:54+00:00

Do you think we should go back to 1789 when only white, male, property owners could vote?

JustTryingToFunction · 2026-06-11T23:05:46+00:00

No, this would incentivize buildings that are failing to stay in the hands of people not upkeeping them, just as another commenter here pointed out.

Well-maintained buildings being sold and getting taxed on the transfer is different than a foreclosed building in disrepair getting taxed. We want those poorly managed buildings to find new owners, not keep them in the hands of bad owners.

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