I neither build or stop houses from being built. I believe that the cause of homelessness is that housing is not affordable and that raising the property tax of people who once were able to vote to protect themselves from becoming homeless by keeping their property tax bill from causing them to lose their homes shouldn’t now be targeted as the solution to homelessness.
I know this - you want special tax privileges for yourself while crushing new homeowners with the bill. We've been over this.
Remember, my only position is that everyone should pay the same tax rate, no special privileges for anyone.
That just makes housing more expensive.
False, the opposite is true. The price of housing is based on the purchase price of people buying one now - freezing property taxes encourages people to turtle in properties larger than what they need because it is cheaper to own a three bedroom house with two bedrooms you don't use than it is to downsize to a one bedroom because your taxes will take a huge hit. This decreases the available housing stock and makes housing more expensive.
You pursue that solution because you live in a fantasy that a single family home in a desirable urban location will magically turn into a skyscraper when, if it somehow could appear where a house once stood, it would be poor people who would move in. Look at rents in NYC and compare them to rents in Kentucky.
A single family home won't magically do anything. All I want is for people to stop banning it from becoming a skyscraper if that's what the owner wants to do. And no, the homeless wouldn't move into a new building - I mean do you think poor people buy new cars? The rich would move into that building, but they would move out of their current residences to do so, enabling those less rich than them to move into their old place, and so on, and so forth, thus decreasing the total cost of housing.
I mean using your logic we shouldn't build any new cars because only rich people will buy them. This is the problem with NIMBYs, they keep trying to make up new excuses to try and make their selfishness seem somehow altruistic. I would prefer if you just came out and said 'I want more money and I want to force people to live in the houses I deem acceptable for them.'
The issue is that there is no such thing as a home the homeless can afford. Such housing can only be built by the government at tax payer expense and even if you might vote to pay for it, it will still never pass in state legislatures. And that is why the homeless problem remains unfixed. People are barely able to take care of themselves much less pay to house others.
California has already committed billions to free medicine. To build and give away at a price the poor could afford would cost billions more.
I don't even know what to say to someone so delusional that you don't think the price of housing DIRECTLY AFFECTS who can afford them, and therefore who becomes homeless. Did it seriously not dawn on you that the huge increase in homelessness and the huge increase in housing costs in California might be related?
Again though, I encourage you to take this piece of wisdom to a homeless encampment near you - 'the cost of housing isn't an issue for why you're homeless, you couldn't afford something no matter the price!'
It is funny though that you seem to believe only the government can step in to solve a problem that is almost entirely caused by government regulation.
Perhaps the issue will be solved if Elon Musk takes an interest in it in addition to moving people to Mars.
I'm pretty confident Elon Musk would agree with me.