The Antiplanner is fully aware that government doesn’t work, but I wish that politicians would stop trying to prove it. First, the Portland city council has decided to make permanent a temporary rule that requires landlords to pay moving costs of up to $4,500 for any tenants they evict without cause or whose rents they raise by more than 10 percent. Portland housing costs have been rising at faster than 10 percent per year for the past several years. this is supposed to control that rise.
Instead, what it will do will discourage anyone from renting a house or building apartments for rent. This will only make costs rise faster than before.
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No one can really be serious about housing affordability unless they support eliminating the urban-growth boundaries that make land expensive in most Pacific Coast cities. No one can really be serious about relieving congestion unless they support true congestion pricing, either through variable tolls or mileage-based user fees. While I don’t expect these ideas to easily win the day, I would like to see some politicians take them seriously.
I get it, you’re teahadi’s, you want despotism. Though SJW’s and Mohamedans want despotism too :$
“No one can really be serious about housing affordability unless they support eliminating the urban-growth boundaries that make land expensive in most Pacific Coast cities.”
*Yawn*
To really take a bite out of housing prices, support eliminating:
1. The Federal Reserve, which is fueling both demand and speculation with artificially low interest rates
2. Zoning, permitting, property tax, and regulations that increase the price of housing
3. Hipsters
The above two comments don’t address how making it much more difficult to be a landlord will increase the availability of apartments and improve the lot of renters. As usual, it is politicians claiming to help the poor while they (1) directly hurt the poor and (2) are merely using the poor solely for the politicians’ political benefit.
“The above two comments don’t address how making it much more difficult to be a landlord will increase the availability of apartments and improve the lot of renters”
This statement makes no sense as making it more difficult to be a landlord will not benefit renters.
See my second point about eliminating regulations that increase the price of housing, which is germane to the article.
The AP’s quip I quoted is off topic, not mine.
As you noted before. “Most people (in the New York area) cannot easily switch from” cars to transit and vice versa, how would “true congestion pricing” reduce congestion? New York is a classic grid design city. No room to expand lanes of road at all. Unless they build tunnels underground, which they wont. If they really wanted to alleviate congestion and move people they should turn the Second Avenue subway they’ve been working on for decades in and out and let it’s construction be handled to a private company.
Or one novel idea; while the Antiplanner is skeptical of Elon Musk’s hyperloop, why not build a monorail above 2nd, 4th and 6th Avenue. Or build bi-rail. Build an extra wide elevated train above each Avenue, in a straight line. Simply put…dig a hole, drop in a pre-built support pylon, truck in the track which was manufactured offsite, lift into place! Monorail beamway can be installed far faster than the alternatives of cutting, tunnelling, digging, redirecting infrastructure, pipes, wires, cables, etc. The Las Vegas Monorail not exactly the best performing system in town; from truck bed to pylons was a matter of a few minutes. The entire system took only seven months to construct. No other fixed rail can be installed as quickly and as disruption-free. The Tokyo Monorail is operated by a private business and turns a profit each year. This is unheard of with conventional rail or bus systems. Monorails regularly operate at an amazing 90+% reliability. No other form of transit can touch that number. The rubber tires get little wear running on smooth guideways and maintenance is as simple as……..changing a tire.
Pick an Architectural Style, Any Style, monorails can be adapted to fit any……..
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No other fixed rail can be installed as quickly and as disruption-free.
” ~Lazy Reader
Not to take away from your bigger point on monorails but they’re not disruption-free. The construction causes some although relatively minor compared to other options. More so, there’s a permanent disruption in the sky and on the ground. In some little place like Jacksonville, the disruption from the skyway can be ignored on a relatively low traffic stretch of a road downtown. BUT is a higher density city, they’d really need to do something else so this wasn’t quite so disruptive.
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