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Dems have been so poisoned by incrementalism that even the idea of pushing for systemic change is looked down on. It’s not just strategically dumb, it’s economically disastrous.

Instead, he focuses almost solely on “YIMBYism” because these groups already have huge influence over zoning boards. His “solution” is deliberately watered-down and ineffective, in order to prevent true progress in the issue.

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Klein won’t bring this up while discussing housing because his donors are corporations. He also won’t discuss illegal rent fixing schemes perpetrated by these groups.

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As the study says, after the financial crash, investment firms bought up homes and converted them into rental properties. First time home-buyers were priced out of home ownership due to having to compete with these investors.

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First time homebuyers are screwed, and property ownership is the main vehicle for generational wealth transfer in America, so good luck to future generations.

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Nick Jackelson @shidass.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

~25% of single family home in Atlanta are owned by investment groups. www.gao.gov/assets/gao-2... Are you trying to argue that it’s got a negligible impact on home prices? It’s obviously a significant factor in rising housing disparity.

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You’d think that a book ABOUT HOUSING would address these issues, but Klein’s approach is specifically designed to appeal to investors and corporate landlords rather than offer real solutions.

Nick Jackelson @shidass.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Not sure what you’re trying to argue here. Your article verifies my point that investment firms are buying up real assets at an alarming rate. Plus, it wouldn’t matter who owns these properties while landlords engage in illegal price fixing schemes.

David Hogg @davidhogg.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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This is why I left the DNC

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Nick Jackelson @shidass.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

This may be true, but there’s nothing they were getting from Kirk that’s not easily replaced by Crowder or Pool. Even his hateful rhetoric is dime-a-dozen in the modern era. Except for conspiracies about the assassination, Charlie’s gonna be forgotten like a fart in the wind.

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Nick Jackelson @shidass.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Where does the tech industry find people like this? Genuinely, I never meet people who are so allergic to personal responsibility IRL.

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Nick Jackelson @shidass.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

AOC continues to act as the moral center and near-only example of leadership in the party. God I hope she runs so bad

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Somehow, I knew his hairline looked like this the minute I read the article byline

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

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I actually don’t think the Dem spin on who did the shutdown is necessary because it is probably a good idea to try to limit government functions if you think the ruling party is doing accelerated fascism

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from the general education populace.

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American classrooms commonly have ~35 students at a time. This prevents any specialized education that meets the needs of the individual student. Parents of these students can push for their kids to be in “accelerated” classes away from their peers with lower class sizes, but it diverts resources

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Whoever told you it’s a “funding issue” is in the pocket of United Healthcare.

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A majority of Democrats support M4A and disapprove of elected officials opposing the legislation. The issue isn’t with the electorate, it’s with our leadership. Dem elites are totally unresponsive to the preferences and needs of their base, and subsequently are hemorrhaging support.

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Settling for half-measures that don’t address the core issue is not the way forward, it’s how we stagnate. All Dems/leftists/progressives/whatever need to be unified in call to change the status quo and fix the broken systems in this country.

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When The Dems have control of all three branches, they can’t even pass the defining bill of their administration to expand coverage and limit healthcare expenditures. When The Republicans have all three, they eliminate medical coverage for millions of people. 1 step forward for 3 steps back

Nick Jackelson @shidass.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Fitting comparison. The Affordable Care Act didn’t hold health insurance companies accountable, and so we continue to have terrible medical debts in America despite efforts to combat it. The same dynamic would occur with housing under Klein’s plans.

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Private equity and property holdings should not dictate the housing market. We need more than the status quo to rectify this. More construction is good, more construction owned by the same people is bad.

Speaking of “making stuff up” Klein says something similar in his book, then provides no evidence for how these “random contractors” will compete with market dominating firms. Again, you’re in fantasy land.

I wonder how effective the YIMBY approach has been. Let’s look at housing construction since the ‘08 crash: less new construction since that date than the decade prior. Klein’s “solution” is the status quo repackaged. He doesn’t look at non-supply market limiters.

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You might like your fairy tale that tells you everything will be okay in the future, but without serious consideration of the impact of monopoly, and the current market’s insulation from competition, you’re never going to get there.

Writing a book about housing policy in 2025, while ignoring the effect of inflationary practices utilized by property holdings groups, is bad policy.

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lol “rent control bad” It’s very easy to convince someone that the status quo is alright when they haven’t personally experienced the consequences of the current housing market. It’s why Klein’s framing is only effective with Neoliberals.

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That’s what Klein gets you: an inability to think beyond current conditions. His book deliberately ignores the impact of inflationary pressures in the current market, and offers the status quo as a “solution”.

That’s why Klein’s take is so idiotic; he takes neoliberal policy from decades ago, acts like he’s invented a new perspective on the housing market, and neolibs lap it up. Meanwhile he deflects from the inflationary impact that private equity and real estate devs are creating.

In rural areas, new construction projects are pricing out existing residents. In cities, gentrification chases away people who have lived in neighborhoods for their entire lives. This framework might’ve worked in 1960, but there are more factors at play in modern markets

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Incorrect. We’ve seen this play out in multiple ways recently; real estate developers make a larger margin by building condos and single family homes rather than efficient, dense housing. Look at LA, all their new construction is $1M+

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In our current system, those who we trust to build affordable housing are the same people who profit from it being unaffordable. Without systemic change, this dynamic will continue as it has.

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You mean the thing that progressives have recommended for 15 years? Yes, obviously we should do that, and already have been in many places. Yet, we still have a crisis of homelessness in this country. Not cuz people “don’t want to build”, but because financial incentives are contrary to this goal.

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Bingo! No one in this thread is against building affordable housing. It’s a framing used by people like Klein to divert the conversation around treating housing like a necessity, rather than a commodity.

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So long as the main players in building housing units have profit in mind, we will continue to see the trends which are making housing inaccessible: Property developers make a larger margin by creating condos or single-family homes. This will not address the need for dense, urban development.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2025

I appreciate your analysis, but it’s not replying to the point I was making. The issue is, in part, that there isn’t enough housing in the areas where people live, sure. A much larger contributor to the inflation of this market is that housing is now seen as a trading commodity.

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Klein’s approach is overly generalistic, with no intension of addressing a key facet of housing/rent affordability: profit motive.

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This exact dynamic occurred in Houston, where zoning laws were relaxed in “opportunity zones”, and housing developers immediately decimated floodplains with poorly constructed units. The result: ecosystem destroyed by housing that needs to be rebuilt every monsoon season.

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Before this gets any more asinine, can you give an example of a recommendation from Klein that hasn’t already been attempted?

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Yeah, if only someone had considered “making it easier for developers to build housing” Really insightful and revolutionary thinking from Klein. Coulda saved a lot of trouble if he’d been born in the 80’s.

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There’s nothing that Klein has recommended that hasn’t already been tried a dozen times. His book pretends otherwise, but Ethan is rehashing neoliberal ideas that have been ineffective for decades.

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Fair. Zoning laws are a significant factor in preventing the creation of dense housing in many urban areas. But again, the approach that Klein takes hasn’t worked. California already has “anti-NIMBY” laws in place like the Housing Accountability Act, yet continues to experience higher homelessness.

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