Golden Gates
by Conor Dougherty · first published 2020
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By contrast consider Conor Dougherty's Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Gates-Fighting-Housing-America..., which is about how California in particular works hard to raise the cost of housing. Places like Seattle…
on “An average family in Tokyo can own a new house for $850/month” ↗Reading *Golden Gates* by Conor Dougherty right now! If anyone is deciding on a book to read about the history of housing policies, then I recommend it to anyone in California over *The Color of Law* (which is also a great…
on “54% of San Francisco homes are in buildings that would be illegal to build today” ↗…requirements and delays, and other arbitrary veto points. The best intro points to the argument are probably still https://www.amazon.com/Rent-Too-Damn-High-Matters-ebook/dp/B... or https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Gates-Fighting-Housing-America... although neither is free.
on “Tokyo: A big city that is also pleasant to live in” ↗In case anyone's looking for more background, there's a great book from a couple of years ago called "Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America," by NYT reporter Conor Dougherty, that covers the history of the YIMBY movement in California (and to some extent more generally). Sonja Trauss has a prominent role in…
on “A legal fund to sue SF over housing deadlock” ↗…all it really takes are a hand-full. The rest of the residents are impartial or just too busy to care. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Neighborhood-Defenders-Participatory-... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Gates-Fighting-Housing-America...
on “Homelessness rises faster where rent exceeds a third of income (2018)” ↗This is a long asked question, and the recent book Golden Gates by Conor Dougherty spends part of the book exploring the emergence of a new political coalition that fights this: the YIMBY groups and associated groups. They are very young and inexperienced, but their…
on “It’s Time to Build” ↗…have the power to block community changes is directly responsible for many prescient issues, like the lack of housing in California causing sky-high home and rental prices. See e.g. a review of the book Golden Gates, which touches on NIMBY-ism in California: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/business/economy/housing-...
on “Don’t pay for 95% (2016)” ↗