Comment by pibaker
4 hours ago
> This is a recipe for creating dead retiree states.
This too is the beauty of federalism. You want to live in a dead retiree state? You can. You want to live in a bustling industrial district? You can too. As long as you do things through proper democratic channels.
> Now do this for housing
But this bill is not about housing. This response makes as much sense as responding to a new law legalizing marijuana and saying "now do this for heroin, rape and murder."
Housing was always one symptom of rabid NIMBY-ism. The underlying issue is the default NO posture towards any and all infrastructure. Even when rejecting housing, most NIMBY’s complain about more people using too much water or electricity or traffic or some such.
Go to build extra water or power capacity? The same retirees unironically show up to the meetings with environmental concerns that the EPA already regulates.
It’s all the same cancer and it needs to be excised.