Comments by "Nunya Bidness" (@nunyabidness3075) on "Can We Fix Zoning By Tweaking a Few Numbers?" video.

This the problem with zoning. It’s now turned from some form of representative governance to mob rule. People buy a property and invest in structures with reasonable expectations things will not unnecessarily change in ways that will greatly affect them. Now their property is being wholesale changed while actually unused land nearby which the owners would LOVE to develop differently is unchanged because of the hassles to get permissions.
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@r.d.9399 How did they do that?
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@advokatie rent control? Are you guys going back to bleeding people with leeches also? Rent control helps a lucky few, and hurts many, many more. It’s unbelievable how Marxists are somehow destroying our country with the worlds oldest and worst ideas. The reason you have people calling for rent control is that a century of market intervention has made housing more and more unaffordable. Name any housing affordability program, and I can easily spell out how it’s made things worse and helped create the current mess. Try me.
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@gro_skunk Why aren’t they being built?
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@kennethridesabike It’s a mystery to me that the environmentalists have not been properly outed. Maybe this latest trend of using environmentalism to defend wealthy property owners will finally do it. There are, of course, many people of integrity concerned about foolish damage to the planet. Unfortunately, the core of the movement has been Marxist from the very beginning, so inevitably it all becomes a hammer for authoritarianism.
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@DaboInk84 One might rightly ask if this legal change is really an effort to house people. I’m hard pressed to find any legal trickery that has ever actually helped house people that didn’t make housing actually cost more either immediately (government subsidized homes are ludicrously poor values on average) or in the long run (by adding more monetary demand for housing, and thus for the land as well). At this point, shouldn’t we be demanding to drastically rip up the government play book and end zoning while studying how to taper off the rest without shocking the market?
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@realestatejunkie0414 The cities do want it. The “city” is the government, not the property owners. The home owners do mostly want gentrification where their areas only move upscale. They are perfectly correct to want to control what they own, and to demand things stay as currently zoned. That’s part of the problem with zoning.
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Wait. You mean voters shouldn’t have to vote on laws and regulations that are so complicated no one understands them? How long have you been an extreme libertarian and are you on the Koch’s payroll?
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@searose6192 Voters? No. Property owners? Within limits.
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