I don’t understand how affordable housing isn’t a huge political issue. It’s missing on the left and the right. Housing is way more important, most people would think, than say, free college tuition (left) or reducing immigration (right) — two issues that get tons of coverage by politicians.
Where is the outrage? Where are the action plans and policy proposals? It bothers me.
If you look at local city politics, it is a huge political issue, but one that's an extremely divisive issue between the left and the left, between "affordable housing" and "affordable housing". This is the NIMBY vs YIMBY issue.
"Where is the outrage?", you ask. The outrage is on the other side. Homeowners don't want their own homes to be affordable. When property values go down, the people who live on those properties get outraged, and those people are overrepresented among voters. When property taxes go up to redistribute even some of this unearned housing wealth, that leads to "constitutional amendment" levels of outrage.
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I don’t understand how affordable housing isn’t a huge political issue. It’s missing on the left and the right. Housing is way more important, most people would think, than say, free college tuition (left) or reducing immigration (right) — two issues that get tons of coverage by politicians.
Where is the outrage? Where are the action plans and policy proposals? It bothers me.
If you look at local city politics, it is a huge political issue, but one that's an extremely divisive issue between the left and the left, between "affordable housing" and "affordable housing". This is the NIMBY vs YIMBY issue.
"Where is the outrage?", you ask. The outrage is on the other side. Homeowners don't want their own homes to be affordable. When property values go down, the people who live on those properties get outraged, and those people are overrepresented among voters. When property taxes go up to redistribute even some of this unearned housing wealth, that leads to "constitutional amendment" levels of outrage.
It isn’t a problem in much of the United States.
What? How is that even possible?
Look at this map that shows what a household needs to earn to buy an average (not low-cost) home by state. Most places do not have California’s problem. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fatherly.com/news/map-avera...
Ah, the old "if it's happening here, it must be happening everywhere".
The thing I like most about the US, is it's diversity across all fronts.