Comments by "Taxi Rob" (@taxirob2248) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder" channel.

@FischerNilsA I've seen what you describe far more often than the opposite. Zoot allures.
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@AAMM101 Jerry's character always seemed smug to me too, like the kind of liberal who also promotes superpredator narratives. Turns out it wasn't him playing a character...
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1:40 years ago when I was living in San Diego, I did a little research on the cost to build houses (this was before fire sprinkler systems were required in new single family homes in CA.) I compared it to Houston TX and the COST was the same, but the sale price was 2x higher (300%.) Developers will pay the lowest non-union wages possible, then turn around and charge whatever people are willing to pay, even if the "people" are really real estate holding companies. Until they are excluded from the new home market, there won't be any "abundance" for the rest of us to even bid on.
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27:30 Steph Curry opposed low income housing in his area, and so did Dave Chappelle. Both are also claim to be religious, and neither lives anywhere near where they were raised.
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@NumaPompilius99 red herring. It's in the media, or we would not be having this convo.
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Abundance = trickle-down for libs
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@alexpkeaton4471 drill baby drill!
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@HessianHunter if you're saying vacancy rates are indicative of a problem and simultaneously saying we need to build more to solve it, it seems like you're missing something very obvious.
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@HessianHunter afraid so, my mistake.
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16:27 gotta send a white congressman or they might get disappeared
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1:40 Norman Lear worked up until the day he died, recently passing in December at 101 years old. And yeah, liberal AF. Seinfeld is a complete tool for name dropping him in that way.
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@Nathaniel-w5n WHAT success?
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Not everyone from Californee is rich, friendo. And you used to live, there, right? How long ago was that? What is your source for statistics like "many?" I'm not wasting my time looking up anything so ridiculously subjective and prone to hearsay.
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@jonm7888 but he isn't saying that. Sounds more like the "rich California elites" conspiracy theory.
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@ba94845 most cattle ranches are small in scale. The average, median and mean size of farms and the number of dairy or beef producing animals they maintain is available through the USDA.
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anybody still think defunding the police was a bad idea?
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San Diego can't manage San Diego, they wouldn't know what to do with the Colorado delta.
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@chrisbybike1315 there's no guarantee that any of it will get built regardless of zoning changes or whatever gimmick you think is gonna solve everything, and even then there is no guarantee it will actually be affordable. 80% of median income in San Diego isn't the same as it is in St. Louis, and even $20 an hour working at McDonald's in the former won't actually get you an affordable housing unit.
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@chrisbybike1315 we built housing specifically along transit corridors in San Diego, and none of it is affordable. Yuppies aren't going to give up their cars, but they like the new apartments. And I mentioned median wages earlier because that's the criteria for most "affordable" units there. I worked on one all "affordable" unit project down in Otay Mesa that cut people off who made more than $45k, which is now less than half the median for SD. So mixed and multifamily absolutely makes sens along transit corridors, and most people would agree, and yet nothing guarantees true affordability or availability. Another thing people overlook is commercial property like office and retail that does not include any housing at all, like grocery stores and such. Those are huge footprints that no one is addressing, and those kinds of properties are generally leased so that there is no burning reason why it can't be built as mixed use. I lived on a main street in San Diego that ran through one of the smaller neighborhoods, and we had a Von's and a drug store right across the street from one another on the main drag. Neither parking lot was ever full and there is no push to get future build outs on those properties to include housing. It's a huge waste. Yet one of the new projects right on the same main drag with a popular bus line is supposed to be high end condos with reduced parking requirements. No fn way those people are going to use MTS to get anywhere.
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