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Cosmopolitan. Brooklyn-based indie game developer best known for Semantle.
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novalis honked back 14 Oct 2024 13:18 +0000
in reply to: https://hachyderm.io/users/lahosken/statuses/113302327284084840

@lahosken I think you're making a mistake here. Price controls always cause shortages. And local governments are notorious for making terrible choices on housing regulation. I don't even think local governments even have to nefariously intend for multifamily buildings to not pencil out -- they just have no idea what the actual costs of anything are.

Notice that your link mentions ways that rent control could be designed to reduce the impact on building -- but nothing in Prop 33 requires that it be designed this way, and in fact it rarely is.