Exactly. Strict controls on rents and public financing of land acquisition and construction are key to renting out New buildings at affordable rents. The free market cannot solve the housing shortage.

When you have two separate problems, usually you need two separate solutions. Rent control does not solve the supply problem. But it does clear a path for building to take place without a displacement. Without rent control, new building will always result in gentrification.

Unfollowing you for that. The real world disagrees strongly.

As humans make the outdoors weirder by changing the climate - more heatwaves, severe storms, wildfire smoke and other air pollution - it's getting more important to ensure safe, comfortable, affordable housing for all. People who caused more of these problems should do/pay more to help solve them.

I didn't know you were a tenants attorney!

FDR got nominated only on the fourth ballot at the 1932 convention. It used to be routine that the convention would pick the nominee. There is not a single example you can point to of a nominee losing solely because they only won at the convention. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_De...

Biden putting his political life on the line for a man who hates him and wants him to lose the election is one of the most baffling and infuriating decisions I have ever seen tell him and his genocidal military to go fuck themselves

you need a sound effect to play when she says that. Maybe loose screws rattling around in a can. Or the "scare" chords from the soundtrack of the shower scene in Psycho.

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." - Edward Abbey capitalism baby!