"Those of us who do housing reform work in California do not have the luxury of that distance. Many of us struggle to afford housing. Nearly all of us have friends who have moved away due to the high cost of rent or the seeming impossibility of becoming a homeowner. We constantly bear witness to the suffering of the tens of thousands of people who are forced to sleep outside every night and live with the knowledge that many of them die every day. This close proximity to the human costs of California’s disastrous housing policy, combined with experience of listening to housing opponents’ arguments, focuses the mind and clarifies the stakes. While I understand and admire Marohn’s desire to give people the benefit of the doubt, it cannot survive contact with California housing opponents’ words and actions. What are we supposed to say about people who wait hours to speak in opposition to affordable farmworker housing in downtown Half Moon Bay because it might make it harder for them to park their cars, or who scream at public officials who propose converting an existing motel to homeless housing? What do we make of people who live near UC Berkeley—where one in ten students experience homelessness—and sue to block the construction of a dorm because the students might be loud? What should I think about a city council member who brags about building fewer homes for needy families to mollify her constituents who dislike mid-rise buildings? Should housing advocates continue to seek compromise with NIMBYs who understand perfectly well that endlessly dragging out the entitlement and permitting process with bad-faith demands for further project-level public input can kill projects’ financial feasibility? Is YIMBY rhetoric painting these people as obstacles to housing really the problem here, or is their rigid dedication to the status quo in the face of so much suffering the problem? What does prioritizing millionaire homeowners’ aversion to change over the needs of the poor …

Probably the key part of this piece. It comes down to the following: "What does prioritizing millionaire homeowners’ aversion to change over the needs of the poor and unhoused do to our souls?"

I am not a crazy ideologue. I just think that the richest society in human history has a moral responsibility to welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, treat the sick, and house the homeless. If doing that requires forcing comfortably-housed people to accept neighborhood change, I'm ok with that.

Children should also be given proper healthcare. You just want trans youth to kill themselves because of your bigotry.

There was an entire movie in 2002 called John Q where a man holds up a hospital so that his son can get heart surgery. You do wonder why it wasn't more common.

I'll show them all! I'll run an ad for the company that summarizes books

oh my god

TIL plant based nitrates don’t have the same cancer risk associated with meat ones. That’s great to know!

man you just got voted a pay package that will make you the richest human being who ever lived and you're spending all your time obsessing over getting owned real bad on the internet

elon really is the face of the billionaire brainworms crisis that is Online

Humans smoking meat for eons does not negate recent evidence that smoked meats are carcinogenic.

How so?

“No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office A Fort Worth church’s candidate training program is the “next stage” of a religion-driven political movement, which has more latitude now that the IRS has allowed religious leaders to endorse candidat...

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Frozen vegetables can be as nutritious or more nutritious since they don’t undergo nutrient degradation during transit.

There’s literally nothing wrong with frozen or canned veggies and fruits.

The point is that you can’t use “can I pronounce this” as a useful proxy.

Alan is notably pro-transit, and I think he actually is entirely car-free. I don't know where you got the impression that he loves cars and car infrastructure.

Matt Bernstein has a podcast episode called "The Unraveling of Debra Messing" that has detailed her years long crashout due to her Zionism.

That city, like all cities, is blanketed with Flock and HALO cameras. Cops can combat street racing by going to these people’s houses and arresting them based on hard physical evidence. Instead they act with extreme disregard for human life and kill or maim dozens of people. For fun.

Airlines make far more now than they did in the alleged "golden era" of flying when flying was a luxury for the wealthy elite.

>do you think prices will fall back?

I do, because people do make travel decisions based on cost. "More flights at higher prices" only works if you can actually sell those flights at higher prices.

May I ask for the source of the image? I want to use it for the future.

A wealthy safe streets advocate could do the most good by paying a team of maybe a half dozen journalists to aggressively and comprehensively report every single traffic death in every major city. Depicting the horrifying human cost, FOIing PDs and DOTS, contextualizing it in policy choices, etc.

Why was the autonomous car fleeing police?

Home prices are a matter of the supply being far below demand. We stopped building lots and lots of housing. And as you mention, white people had an advantage in that the supply of housing back then was largely reserved for them.

The Brady Bunch was a tv show. No, people largely could not buy a house and raise multiple children on a single income. That was always a minuscule percentage of the population.

Is there a single decent writer at The Atlantic? I used to have some respect for Jerusalem Demsas but she also lost her mind due to nonstop engagement with X Nazis.

Shaming sex workers but leftishly

Confused as to how unemployment could not be high when a lot of big companies are cutting tens of thousands of jobs?

This made me hate Baldurs Gate 3 by proxy because dude probably jerked his worm to Astarion and Shadowheart smut

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Y'all, the hospital where I had my surgery is running trials to see if GLP-1 medications can help people suffering from long COVID. It's open to any person with documented long COVID who lives in the US.

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