An employee at a major bank in Florida was so grateful we passed 15 an hour min. She makes roughly 19 an hour and her son works in retail. She said how pleased she was that they would earn more money. I stated "how we going to make more money"? She went on to explain her 20 years of service is worth a lot more than min wage. I responded the 15 an hour is like food stamps, designed to help the poorest among us. She than asked the manager when they raise the min wage 1.5 will she get more money. To which she was told no, just the annual raise if available. It was at that moment she understood. Telling me if she could work at the zoo for 15 an hour why would she work in a high stress office. To which I responded "you wouldn't". In hind sight I should have said those making 100k would prolly get raises.
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I tried to google "greenbelting" and found some things in wikipedia etc that sort of explained it. I tried to search for the concerns you have and cannot find any articles or any such thing where someone shares a similar concern as you of greenbelting.
Im trying to understand your concern and I think I'm seeing it.
Essentially the government can control house prices by just not letting people build more properties. They use that control corruptly to both keep house prices high by restricting control, as well as to fill their own pockets by selling deisions to special interest groups and lobbists who they will approve applications for in the "greenbelt" as a favor in return for another favor or most likely financial political donations to your campaign / party.
Am I on the right track. Not taking the piss I find this interesting.
Removing single family dwellings is the next step in the globalist plan. This guy is sus. Especially because CA has been INCREASING the towns in which you can build ADUs and condos and other high density housing.
The problem with the housing prices in CA has to do with a whole array of factors. First there is the permitting process and the taxes. It's incredibly expensive to build a house there and it takes a long time to get through permits so that means more holding costs. Wages on all the laborers are higher so subcontractor costs are higher. Also, The construction pricing and gas prices go hand in hand because of how much trucking is involved and $4.80 a gallon isn't cheap.
Plus construction in CA is different than it is in the middle of the country. The dirt is different and harder to work with. There's more excavation and more engineering. And the house needs to withstand not only strong winds but flooding, earthquakes and sub 0 temperatures.
There is also the Hollywood factor. prices are so high because of hype and demand.
I don't understand why this guy thinks increasing the amount of apartments will decrease the prices. There is no reason with a country so big we need that many people in the big cities. We need to spread out, not pile in.
When shantytowns were tolerated, at least the poor had a roof over their heads.
Baltimore for ex. used to have lots of flophouses around the harbor so there were no homeless. As soon as city inspectors start running around citing properties not to code, well there goes actual homes (albeit lousy) for the poor, but at least they had some little home that was better than nothing. Law of Unintended Consequences.
Or the law of exactly the intended consequences.