No minimum parking, no height limit, no maximum FAR, no maximum unit count.
yeah get rid of these next and you’re set.
It’s gonna take a lot of work, man. The regulatory capture here is extreme.
Everyone wants to point to capitalism for this, but this is what happens when you kneecap any economic system. That’s why it’s all over the world.
This is specifically about Australia, but essentially all 3 parts of this piece (and related linked essays) sum up how to solve the housing crisis worldwide.
https://theemergentcity.substack.com/p/how-to-solve-housing-unaffordability
Boils down to:
1: change zoning laws to allow more multifamily construction
2: remove incentives for homeownership and generally disincentivize single family homes
3: build for density in ways that reinforce and support density
If you want more info, basically every mainstream economist in the world agrees this is the solution, and that this is a manufactured problem. It’s a result of regulatory capture by homeowners, essentially. There are many, many papers about it.
Here’s an easily-digestible article
https://www.businessinsider.com/economist-how-to-fix-america-housing-crisis-rural-cities-2022-10
And a well-cited study in an economic journal:
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mje/2022/12/30/the-economics-of-the-housing-shortage/
All these sources agree, because this is the solution. Realistically, the only bad solutions are subsidizing more demand via things like rent control - these will only make our problems worse, kind of like how adding more lanes to a highway doesn’t fix traffic.
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Unironically the answer is “shop less.”
Prices on goods rise when demand for goods stays sufficient to support the price going up. The less everyone buys, the less things will cost.
Prices for goods have almost nothing to do with the price of rent, but the mechanisms there are the same - it’s just that you have to encourage building rather than “live somewhere less” because the second option really isn’t tenable, for obvious reasons.
If you want rent to come down, campaign for, vote for, or even run for office to be the candidate that will change zoning laws and encourage building multifamily housing.
Father Christmas by The Kinks is my all-time favorite Christmas song.
https://youtu.be/fPPCPqDINEk?si=8V0_zTG1MOv2luIx
I have a very weird history with and a love/hate relationship with Christmas, but this song is always atop every Christmas playlist I’ve ever made.
I am amazing at geography, so that’s not an issue.
The real problem is getting around once you land, and I can say with absolute confidence that is universal.
Right? So many unique challenges lol
One reason it’s dangerous for me to drink in the UK is that everyone from the UK sounds like a small child to an American.
So yeah, big language differences. Some soccer hooligan would get all mad at the telly about his footy and I’d end up being stabbed for laughing.
TSA fails 95% of their assessments
https://fee.org/articles/tsa-fails-95-of-the-time/
What they successfully do is pose enough of a barrier to entry that most people trying to skirt TSA don’t try. If they genuinely tried, they’d likely succeed
Car insurance ads are vastly better for people, for the economy, and even for road safety than health insurance companies are for people.
Health insurance, as a market, is an externality.
So is Egypt occupying Gaza? They’re involved in the blockade.
Our “paying for the iron dome” is us paying the cost to US weapons manufacturers to send ammunition and terminals for it, mostly. It’s not quite that fungible a concept.
I strongly support our aid for Israel, but I think we should harness our leverage more to rein in how Israel chooses to prosecute their wars.
Your money generally funds the iron dome.
Also this is kind of unrelated but I hate this kind of language because it so misleading:
They’re only called refugee camps because Gaza is not formally a state. They’re modern cities.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_refugee_camps
I’m not exactly a fan of how Israel is fighting this war but engaging with truth is important.
If I steal from you and you stab me, you will most assuredly be arrested, in every single country on the planet.
If you attack someone with a weapon that can kill them, then you are by any sane definition a combatant
Is there really any true justice in an apartheid State?
I’ve never seen anyone even pretend to justify how Israel is apartheid.
You are aware that Gaza is not in Israel, yes? There is a literal wall between the two states.
I think the children should be made Israeli while being held, if caught engaging in open combat with Israel’s. 3 year sentence of “live as an Israeli citizen.”
Show them who they’re fighting and they’ll stop fighting.
Qatar is balls-deep in this conflict, my dude.
The IDF are a colonial occupying army. I think the Palestinians are responding to them the way the entire rest of the planet would.
Theyre neither colonial nor occupying. They’re invading in response to a foreign government massacring their people. The reason for the massacre was to force Israel to respond and thus damage Israel’s normalization of diplomacy with Saudi Arabia.
Hamas isn’t fighting off colonial oppressors. They are engaging in politically motivated terror strikes designed to weaken the standing of a people they want to exterminate, at the intentional cost of the lives of their civilians.
This is the way history books will describe this war - not the propaganda you find comforting.
Cool. I’m down with that.