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[Alt-text] Pikachu Ezra Klein asks Slow King Schumer to “Incrementally improve society by deregulate housing.”
Slow King Schumer says, “I’ll ask the boss.”
Spoink Bill Ackman says, “I’ll pay you a million dollars to never do that.”
Slow King Schumer says, “I’m so aroused.”
Slow King Schumer says, “No.”
Pikachu Ezra Klein has a surprised pikachu face.
I don’t really see how deregulation is supposed to stop investors from turning living spaces into a speculative asset.
When has deregulation ever helped working people?
Maybe they meant zoning laws and parking space requirements. Getting rid of those would help working people a lot.
Well, you see, shut up, filthy poor.
Changing zoning laws to allow housing near commercial stuff would probably help and count as deregulation I think?
Dallas does this. It creates its own set of problems.
(Almost) the rest of the world also does this, it creates a lot less problems than the zoning laws in most of the USA
deregulation in Texas always leads to worse quality of life. Everyone who runs things in this state since the 90’s will take things too far, and leave the mess for the public to live with. I’m sure it works great elsewhere, but here you’ll have chemical manufacturerers dumping waste into middle school playgrounds and the state government passing laws to protect the business owners from lawsuits.
This one is just one I personally remember reading about, there are many more such cases
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/12/09/southeast-dallas-shingle-mountain-environmental-racism/
tl;dr: roofing company bought a random lot in a neighborhood and used it as a dumping ground for years and it was all perfectly legal because of Dallas’s deregulation.
It won’t. But even if it would, billionaires would shut it down wherever someone tried it. They have a shared class interest, the class consciousness, and the money to do so.