Exactly. I’m not saying this guy is a saint or anything but he’s trying to increase the supply of housing in the world and that’s a good thing. And trying to block him because you have some grandiose plan for the state to build a bunch of housing in some distant future utopia is very counterproductive. Like I’m all for decommodifying housing but best case that takes some time, and people need places to live today.
San Diego like most cities has more empty homes (75k) than unhoused people (9k), the problem is not a lack of housing units but that the ones that exist are kept empty because it’s more profitable to speculate on house prices than to risk renting it out and then not being able to sell it for the most potential profit later.
In that context, I don’t think painting your garage white and renting it out is necessarily a good thing as it will drive house prices even higher.
ADU’s are also a solution brought up by planners to address increasing housing supply in a built suburban environment.
I said proper planning, upzoning and letting the market decide what gets built (including ADUs) is what got us into this mess, it won’t get us out of it.
Smol landlord may not be good, but it is better than not building the home.
ADU’s are also a solution brought up by planners to address increasing housing supply in a built suburban environment.
Exactly. I’m not saying this guy is a saint or anything but he’s trying to increase the supply of housing in the world and that’s a good thing. And trying to block him because you have some grandiose plan for the state to build a bunch of housing in some distant future utopia is very counterproductive. Like I’m all for decommodifying housing but best case that takes some time, and people need places to live today.
Is it?
San Diego like most cities has more empty homes (75k) than unhoused people (9k), the problem is not a lack of housing units but that the ones that exist are kept empty because it’s more profitable to speculate on house prices than to risk renting it out and then not being able to sell it for the most potential profit later.
In that context, I don’t think painting your garage white and renting it out is necessarily a good thing as it will drive house prices even higher.
I said proper planning, upzoning and letting the market decide what gets built (including ADUs) is what got us into this mess, it won’t get us out of it.