Yglesias did a survey of federal policies that could improve housing affordability a few months ago:
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Have to dock her Twitter points because she admitted she was wrong
https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1818691988620767379?t=jyRzuKFW2r7rS_LqJ23hbA&s=19
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The angle is to paint kamala as a ditz who doesnât even know what race she is. Which is like, the most important thing to know. JD Vance knows what race his woman is. Heâs not thrilled to admit it, but he knows
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Never feel older than when I click these play buttons.
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At the very least the Vance is weird attacks got Trump to proclaim that JD is irrelevant. A total nothing. An electoral zero. The attacks should continue.
Some credit is due to GWB for being among the first to recognize Trump was doing weird shit. Laughing green shirt guy from Tucson was also a pioneer.
I donât really associate GWB with that. Obviously I missed or forgot something. What was it?
He was quoted as saying âwell that was some weird shitâ at the end of Trumpâs inauguration speech. When asked about it later, he said something like, âI donât remember saying that.â Which basically admits that yeah, thatâs what he said.
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Yeah I donât get that either⌠Also not sure who the laughing green shirt guy from Tucson is or what he did
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If this lady was totally, colossally wrong, what about those who were vehemently against Biden stepping aside? Memory holed already I suppose?
You have to be a 0th level mouth breather to have that take on those 2âs impacts
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Disagree, and youâre likely thinking about the existing toolbox and policies the government has used in the past. I am talking about something completely new. Thereâs really few limits.
Fed use funding to influence things which are out of their scope in all sorts of other areas (e.g. drinking age). They could do it with housing construction or zoning laws. They just havenât done that in the past, but itâs basically norms and lack of political will.
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I wonât pretend to know much of anything about US housing laws, but I wonder is something structured like the Canada federal health Act would work. Here, health care delivery is the jurisdiction of the provinces but the federal act is a funding act. The provinces donât legally have to comply with the federal act in the provision of health care, but if they donât comply then they donât get the funding.
If the Dems wanted a signature issue to define this election the way Obama won on Obamacare, then a proposal to launch a federal housing act to make housing more affordable would be a good way to do it. The Rs would absolutely lose their minds but it would turn the election into âdo you want affordale housing or notâ decision for many critical voters, which is a winning strategy for the Dems. Letâs go Harris Homes Act.
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Itâs not likely the Federal government could use eminent domain for something like a housing project, even with a sympathetic Supreme Court. It would have to have a public purpose thatâs within the Federal governmentâs authority. It has actually been a while since I looked at federal eminent domain law, but my recollection is that it basically has to be for things like transportation, defense, national parks, things like that. It would be hard to claim a public purpose when the units are going to be meant for exclusive use by private individuals and families.
Where are the cheeseburgers tho?