Housing abundance is as unpopular as many progressive economic policies

Posted by fishlord05

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  1. !ping FIVEY

    https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000019a-262b-d83c-a3fa-673f3f660000

    This whole report gives every faction something to kill themselves over. Personally the CTC being underwater like this is a big disappointment. I do think that issue polling is notoriously fickle and should be taken with a grain of salt however.

    Cynically I can’t help but feel that the centrist faction (with whom this report is aligned) will just say that their unpopular stuff will just have to be done quietly while the progs will just have to shove it.

  2. Certainly-Not-A-Bot on

    Honestly issue polling is kind of stupid. What matters is not whether an issue is popular, but whether it will cause people to change their votes. I would posit that mass upzoning makes people kinda shrug and not really care, unlike spot upzonings which feel “unfair” to many

  3. AtlanticFrontier on

    I think the issue is with the word ‘multifamily’.

    Having a free standing house is part of North American culture, and is a deeply held normative value.

  4. Outrageous_Debate_56 on

    How are abolish the police and abolish prison democratic policies? This kind of media implies that the democrats actually want to do these things, which is evidently not true. 

  5. sunshine_is_hot on

    Where is this taken from? These “unpopular democratic policies”, especially the more unpopular ones, aren’t actual democratic policies. Democrats were vocally speaking out against things like abolishing the police and providing free healthcare to undocumented immigrants. This seems like a list compiled by somebody who is pushing an agenda, not somebody looking to accurately assess democratic policies.

  6. SFH ownership is so ingrained as a goal in the minds of Americans that I think anything involving an increase in MFH development will be viewed negatively, even amongst people who would probably benefit from it (temporarily embarassed millionaires except for SFH ownership)

    It doesn’t help that most new apartment builds in this country have poor building quality. The main reason I always hear cited for wanting to move out of an apartment is noise from neighbors

  7. PuntiffSupreme on

    Abundance is about convincing them of things not about how popular they are now.

    Also just because it’s not popular doesn’t mean it’s not some hong you do. People aren’t gonna vote against the GOP for their unpopular stuff so you can afford to do some good even if it isn’t plus 10 percent

  8. Animal_Courier on

    “Requiring cities…” makes it sound like whatever comes next is a burden.

    “Legalize the construction of multi family housing,” might fare differently.

  9. BasedTroutFursona on

    At the rate anything gets done boomer die-off is going to solve the housing shortage before anything else

  10. Serious-Cucumber-54 on

    Why are they framing “Abolishing the Police” or “Abolish Prisons” as a “Democratic Policies”?

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