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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course they are doing billionaires work.  Ezra Klein and Peter Thiel are buddies.  It’s all part of the plan.  The YIMBYs are just the useful idiots of the left, the analog of the MAGAs on the right.[/quote]

Oh no! Affordable housing! How scary! I wonder if you honestly believe this or are just trying to stir the pot.[/quote]

[b]Housing is already affordable. [/b]YIMBYs like to conveniently act as though incomes in this area aren’t astronomical. The median HHI in Moco is about $170k. With the high salaries here, people easily fill up all the apartment buildings that they claim are not affordable. And if you’re at the lower end of the income scale, you can live in an older building, live further out, and/or get a roommate. The options are there. We don’t need to give handouts to developers, change zoning, or manipulate the market to make housing more “affordable” (which paradoxically just raises prices for people who don’t qualify for affordable units). So yes, YIMBYs are idiots. [/quote]

You are f-ing delusional.

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Look, if your income is low, then you have to adjust your expectations — live further out, get a roommate, etc. You can’t afford a brand new building in a downtown area, living all by yourself. That’s just how it is, and no politician can fix it. I know it might seem like a salary of, say, $100k is a lot, but in this area it just isn’t. I have friends who realized this and moved to lower cost of living areas and can afford way more than what they can afford here on lower salaries (and they don’t have to deal with the horrific traffic that we have here) — if I were in a job here that didn’t have good growth potential, that’s something I would seriously consider. Relying on the government to give you the housing choices you desire at the price you want is foolish. [/quote]

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