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It's much more of a tool to keep housing expensive by making sure new housing doesn't get built. It gives an out for people not to say the quiet part out loud.

ditto to the spiderweb of NGOs latched onto blue city governments

Advocates of IZ become a caricature of Milton Friedman, the economist they so much abhor, as soon as they say the state should opt out of building subsidized housing and force developers to do that job.

I've said it's like defunding the food banks and instead putting a tax on beans and rice (but not lobster) in order to pay for a tiny trickle of food aid.

Agree until the last sentence, which strikes me as purely hypothetical. Housing so plentiful that property values do not get bid up will not happen here. SF is a magnet city limited to 7x7 miles.

Gentrification is what happens when you don’t build lots of luxury apartments in rich neighborhoods

Inclusionary zoning helps a handful of literal lottery winners at the expense of the 85% of low income tenants who live in market rate housing.

The evidence suggests unfunded IZ exacerbates displacement.

Even more moderate YIMBY aligned groups like GrowSF back things like Prop 1.

Max, if you truly cared about affordable housing you would simply overthrow capitalism

ShelterJH in a nutshell

And lefties also hate construction professionals like drafters, structural engineers, plumbers, electricians, and architects just to name a few lines of work.

Whatever your intentions, IZ is terrible policy that harms renters while asking nothing of actual rich people, who overwhelmingly live in single family homes that they own. It has failed to accomplish its goals and worsened the problem it’s supposedly intended to solve. Zero it out.

Hopefully contagious! Appreciate the state level SB35/423 IZ relief for small projects in cities out of RHNA compliance - feels like a start.

And MA's prop 2 1/2 as well.