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A Boring Dystopia
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cost of housing is slowly bleeding my bank account dry and i literally wouldn't be able to survive here if i wasn't a strong enough cyclist to not need a car, but sure, everything's fine
Homeless survey just came out for San Diego. Not only are most homeless not transplants from other states (as the popular myth goes), they grew up in San Diego. And they didn't suffer one big financial problem. They slowly fell through the rental system until there was nothing left they could afford.
We need housing reform. We needed it a decade ago.
"B-b-b-but... muh backyard! I don't want to have to share it with, uhhhhh... 'criminals'! Building anything other than massively unaffordable single family homes and car dependent neighborhoods is going to ruin the character of the town!"
"Building bike lanes would ruin the quiet, village-like atmosphere of this town."
"What? Sorry, I can't hear you over the roar of traffic!"
Gavin's housing bill was a step in the right direction, and I'm glad they did it, but I wish it'd gone a lot farther, into housing-guarantee territory. That would have been the real game changer.