Yep, but still need new protections such as rent control and better enforcement of the ones currently in place.

“Just build public housing” is better than “just build housing”, but stil woefully inadequate to tackle a problem much more complex and insidious than simple supply and demand.

“Just build” only helps the developers who get to build and thus profit more. They’ll just build luxury condos and “investment properties” since that’s the most profitable.

There’s more expensive housing units sitting empty than there are unhoused people. The problem isn’t a lack of housing, it’s a lack of AFFORDABLE housing. That and it’s WAY too easy for landlords to evict people.

Actually, she was looking down and then looked at me because I got her attention in order to get a better pic 😁

Ursus Arctos Arctos

Aa long as nobody starts vacuuming around him. Like nature, cats abhor a vacuum (even if they ARE perfectly spherical)

Galt’s Gulch

Sounds like a sexually transmitted disease that you can also get from reading too much Ayn Rand 😂

Northern California is obviously welcome.

Except for Silicon Valley, right? Or does Canada have better antitrust and worker’s rights regulations and enforcement too?