The bill, which passed 89-10, would reduce regulations, regulate corporate investors, and expand how housing dollars can be used to build affordable homes and rentals.
I am sick and tired of articles like this, that say what the bill is “aimed at” doing and speak in generalities, but don’t tell you the name, the bill number, or any details of how it goes about doing those things.
I have read the entire article and it gives no fucking clue which bill they’re talking about or how to look it up!
It’s a summary. It also hasn’t been passed, tested, or interpreted. The bill is public and you can read it.
It’s a summary of what? Which bill is it talking about? Why doesn’t it make even the bare minimum of effort to help readers look it up?
If their goal is to inform, they should fucking inform! Link to the goddamn bill!
The bipartisan bill’s future is uncertain, though, as Trump threatens to stall all legislation until voter-ID law is passed
About what I expected.
For the short term, good. Hold up the rare bit of bipartisan legislation in the name of a nonexistent problem. Keep digging that hole, asshole.
Yep. The only problem is that Democrats are likely to be terrible at making Republicans answer for that and messaging about it.
They’ll get all tripped up on something not all that relatable and very wonky or take the bait on some trans side-quest.
This shit should be easy - call the Republicans what they are: fucking weird and demented.
The cons are more worried about “women in sports” or “wokeness” than they are about making shit affordable for you, including housing. They are more worried about covering up for a pedophile that is more fired up about designing a ballroom, or arches, or slapping his name on things than he is on doing the job. They are more worried about covering up for him than they are putting any kind of check on him for anything including taxing virtually everything you buy and invading countries for no reason and threatening our allies.
Stick to that message and also throw in what Democrats plan to do in contrast to all that unhinged chaos and nastiness. And for fuck’s sake don’t take the bait on their messaging about culture war shit. Don’t take their narratives about BLM or burning cities to the ground, or trans or defunding the police or any of that, and constantly bring it back to how fucking weird the right wing is.
Even if this exact version gets passed into law, courts are going to kill the ban on venture capital buying homes or the rich assholes will just find a loophole, and the slashing of regulations and subsidies just mean for profit developers are going to get paid taxpayer money to build barely affordable shit boxes that will fall apart in a few years
We need actual public housing and to tax the big investors out of existence
The problem is construction. America needs millions of new homes to meet demand. And this bill doesn’t stop venture capital from building new homes; it just mandates that they sell those homes within seven years.
So, yes, they’ll be building barely-affordable shit boxes, but those shit boxes will be designed to last exactly eight years.
Edit: correcting autocorrect-induced typos
Yep, and having seen all the ways for profit market based entities have screwed people over my entire life I think the only real answer to this problem of construction is a massive public works project. Housing healthcare education and public safety are all too important to be left up to markets.
