Genuinely the most enraging thing about housing discourse is how people talk about 'affordability' like it's some sort of innate quality, like the building needs to be made out of affordium.
Housing. is. affordable. when. housing. is. abundant.
There are expensive cities that don't build. There are cheap cities that do build. And there are no cities that build lots of housing and still see very high housing costs.
Data shows this over and over and over and over.
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I don't really want to spend tons of time talking about Hasan. So I'm going to make this one long thread and then, god willing, hopefully not have to talk about it for a while.
But it is plainly obvious to anyone with eyes that Piker is an ideological authoritarian.
Hasan spends an astonishing amount of time defending authoritarian regimes, apologizing for them, running cover for them, promoting them, parroting their propaganda, and more. There are dozens of examples of this.
Let's start with what Piker has to say about China.
I'm in @thedispatch today, with a piece about how Renee Good is not going to be the last person ICE kills, because this wasn't a freak accident - it was the culmination of a persistent, ongoing pattern.
(gift link below)
Renee Good's death was a predictable tragedy. ICE routinely escalates to violence at the first excuse. It's an agency filled with substandard officers and given political cover from on high.
Renee Good, or someone like her, was bound to die.