San Francisco’s housing problem highlights fractures among liberals
liberals are the kind of people who abhor nativism in all its forms and recoil at statements, like those recently made by President Donald Trump, that America “is!”. Yet in their own neighbourhoods, they often act as if the country were packed to the brim. The city council, acting unanimously, recently rejected a 63-unit housing complex because it would cast a shadow on an adjacent park.
Three jockeying coalitions each cling to the label of liberal. First there is the landed gentry, older residents who bought at the right time and are precious about maintaining their housing value. Then come the leftist activists who favour rent control, massive public-housing spending and who think gentrification is terrible. Last, are the market-oriented urbanists who want cities to fix their housing-supply shortages by building more.
In California the degree of rent control that cities can impose is limited by a state law known as Costa-Hawkins. In 2018 activists launched an effort to repeal the rule by referendum. They were defeated . Unbowed, state legislators have proposed a suite of bills that would increase local rent-control capacities. In Seattle, also thriving due to a tech boom, Kshama Sawant, a socialist city councillor, is pushing an ordinance that would limit rent increases to move in step with inflation.
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