YES IN MY BACKYARD! (he/him)
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Look, our property taxes are too high- largely due to unsustainable pensions which are like throwing money into a black hole. But this idea is insane. You still need to pay for local government. Capping tax at 1% of purchase price would turn us into an immobile CA housing market.
It would particularly screw younger families seeking first time housing at expense of older homeowners.
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If we don’t build enough housing it really does make the economy more zero sum. One man’s income growth becomes another man’s less affordable first home
As much as I love @GovPritzker , he isn't keeping it with Hochul.
There are common sense education reforms that should be applied in Chicago.
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Brandon Johnson is spending property tax dollars on an investigation into how Chicagoans learned about a meeting to hike their property taxes.
NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s hand-picked school board president just launched an investigation into whether elected school board members leaked news of a special meeting to pass a $25M property tax hike between Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
Why should a public meeting to hike property taxes be a secret?
And why is a mayoral appointee investigating elected school board members for informing the public about such a meeting?
Johnson and Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates have heavily criticized previous appointed school boards for withholding information from the public.
They have been silent about this.
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I would rather be conditionally-allied with liberals on common-sense zoning reform that makes it easier to build social housing, than allied with reactionaries who think poor people are subhuman and well off neighborhoods should be frozen in amber
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Solomon has proposed following Boston & SF in implementing mandatory inclusionary zoning to create $1000 apts.
Mandatory IZ is outlawed in TX and there's 751 apts in central Austin under $1000. Now try finding a $1000 apt in Boston or SF where mandatory IZ has been implemented..
I don't get why I can't pay $1 to read a single newspaper article. I know the processing fees eat up some of that. But I'm not going to subscribe to an out of town paper to read a single article. They are just leaving $ on the table.
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This is legitimately state censorship. The “free speech” people are really quiet right now.
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Kind of funny that left-NIMBYism is premised rhetorically on “your policies are bad because they’re associated (in my mind) with the most evil men in the world: liberal opinion columnists” when this is the actually-existing NIMBY coalition, lol.
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Total YIMBY vindication.
LEGALIZE SINGLE-STAIR NOW!
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Chicago lakefront — which is gorgeous. And one of those 25+ story buildings had to be the first 25+ story building. Build it. (And you, Sir, are not as YIMBY as they come.)
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Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders: if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state.
Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to blame.
#PassTheMap
Some of us have been saying this for YEARS!
Jerome Powell on the housing market:
- "The housing market faces some really significant challenges and I don't know that a 25-basis point decline in the Federal Funds Rate is going to make much of a difference for people."
- "Housing supply is low, many people have very, very low-rate mortgages from the pandemic period."
- "And they kept refinancing and caught the really low so it's maybe expensive for them to move.
- "Also, we haven't built enough housing in the country for a long time."
"We just need more housing."
"We can raise and lower interest rates but we don't really have the tools to address, you know, a secular housing shortage, a structural housing shortage."
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You're supposed to put tall housing structures next to the water, it makes beachside living more affordable.
Plans to put a 25-story apartment complex on San Francisco’s Marina District sparked concerns about a future where the city’s waterfront is ringed by tall housing structures. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s…
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People take economic growth for granted. But in the background there are millions of these improvements happening below your awareness. They happen because people you have never met are informed of your desires and motivated to work to satisfy them by market prices.
