This. One of the things that really made me start to think the idea of incremental reform might be a dead end is when I realized just how interlinked all these systems are with housing. You really can't tackle the idea of passing huge low income housing policies without also addressing the fact that for a huge number of families their house is their primary financial asset. You pretty much have to uproot and scrap the entire system.
And in California it's even worse than it might otherwise be because of a 1950s amendment to the state constitution that says that low income housing has to be approved by referendum.
This. One of the things that really made me start to think the idea of incremental reform might be a dead end is when I realized just how interlinked all these systems are with housing. You really can't tackle the idea of passing huge low income housing policies without also addressing the fact that for a huge number of families their house is their primary financial asset. You pretty much have to uproot and scrap the entire system.
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And in California it's even worse than it might otherwise be because of a 1950s amendment to the state constitution that says that low income housing has to be approved by referendum.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210216180316/https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-affordable-housing-constitution-20190203-story.html