Another day, another old friend in another city catching up with me to lament the ‘bizarre’ situation there where restricted housing supply is upstream of a dozen intractable governance/cost problems infuriating everyone & a Dem establishment bizarrely stubborn about it
We got to the promised land of peogressive urban social democracy. And we utterly biffed it by accepting the premise that a ton of restrictions on building housing generally & apartments specifically were fine and not a problem
If you came to me in a time machine at a protest in Philly in 1998 and told me the guy marching next to me would occupy Lynne Abraham’s seat BUT rules about ‘housebuilding’ would sabotage all but the easiest reforms & improvements… I could not have even conceptually understood