Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:

McParadigm wrote:Begs the question: have any states spent the last 4 years getting it right? Has any state used policy to produce a demonstrable change in the percent of income spent on rent? Or does it just come down to, how many people are there per square mile in the area you want to move into?

I don't think there's a single-scale solution. It will require various interventions at the Federal/State/County/Local levels, plus active participation from the private sector. Just spitballing here:

Federal:
-intervene in PE purchases of real estate
-Create a second round of qualified opportunity zone eligibilities (this is in the pipeline)
-Figure out an immigration and naturalization pathway that pumps tax-accountable juice into the construction labor force
-Federal minimum wage hike

State:
-Cede control back to the local governments where applicable (mostly red states)
-Create low-interest debt funding pools for targeted construction loans

County:
-Overhaul zoning codes for rural areas that lack the government knowledge to even make sense of a zoning plat or request for variance (this is huge, in my experience)

City:
-Limit or ban AirBnB/VRBO within certain parameters
-Allow for mixed-use development
-Figure out the ADU prohibitions that make sense for your municipality

Private industry:
-Stop trying to apply venture capital to f'n real estate
-Create opportunities for employee participation in enterprise upside

tommy wrote:Weird that they cut the video before Tim Dillon pulled down Vance's pants and sucked his dick.