Accessible housing issues

[ijmorlan]

How do landlords cause housing supply issues?

Why don't you try just typing that into Google? Oh right, because you pretty clearly don't actually care about what I'm saying. Which is cool by me.

I think I’ve written enough here to be entitled to expect that people understand that I’m not somebody who thinks everybody should sink or swim regardless of ability or resources.

I said that I didn't think a conversation with you on the matter would be of value to me. I said your comments were off-putting to me. I said nothing about you.

Well it’s off-putting to me for people to just blithely assume that it won’t do anything bad to affordability to demand that duplexes have elevators in them, so I guess we’re even. I’m actually very reasonable, but I expect people to actually think critically about things and to debate based on actual facts and evidence. In this specific case I think you owe us all an explanation of how you could require elevators in duplexes without reducing affordability. And just to be clear “the landlords will pay for it” is not a plan.

Just as nobody should be in planning unless they have fully internalized the fact that the best parts of our cities were built before planning, nobody should be proposing regulations unless they understand that regulating X to require Y might not result in Y: instead X might go away. This doesn’t mean that all or even most regulations are bad, but it’s a possibility that has to be considered.