This would be great but I think the most insidious thing about NIMBYism is that it’s not just one issue with a silver bullet solution; there’s a huge web of hundreds of different regulations and barriers that NIMBYs have built up to make housing construction impossible, and you pretty much have to dismantle it all, or at least large parts of it, in order to significantly increase housing construction and overall affordability, otherwise you kind of have to temper your expectations about the effects.
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Finally some good news!
Now switch the state sales tax, corporate tax, and maybe even income tax to all be land tax and we might just see NY reverse its population decline
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This would be great but I think the most insidious thing about NIMBYism is that it’s not just one issue with a silver bullet solution; there’s a huge web of hundreds of different regulations and barriers that NIMBYs have built up to make housing construction impossible, and you pretty much have to dismantle it all, or at least large parts of it, in order to significantly increase housing construction and overall affordability, otherwise you kind of have to temper your expectations about the effects.
Finally some good news!
Now switch the state sales tax, corporate tax, and maybe even income tax to all be land tax and we might just see NY reverse its population decline