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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are all aholes. Friedson and Glass will build more housing than Jawando. Jawando will be like Elrich - pushing performative and wasteful progressive priorities while supporting nimbyism[/quote]

Sounds like Jawando is my guy. We've built enough housing (fueled by handouts to developers), and prices don't come down despite there being ample supply. And paradoxically enough, the push to give housing handouts (euphemistically called "vouchers") to moochers has resulted in prices going up for people who actually need help the most. I'm a liberal, but the housing market is one where government intervention (in the form of handouts to developers and moochers) has caused more harm than good.

I know it's a tough message for people to hear, but median salaries in this area are 170K for a household, so housing is going to be expensive, and so people need to save up (no more $10 beers and $20 margaritas, plus weekly outings to $200 concerts and $100 dinners) or move further out if they don't like their options.[/quote]

"We've built enough housing" is so impossibly wrong.  Ugh[/quote]

Developers think we have. Otherwise they would build more. The problem with our real estate market is that Friedson has given developers every reason to sit on land. If they just wait long enough, prices will either go up or he’ll give them a subsidy that we all pay for. [/quote]

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