R Ruiz Wrote:
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> Limiting the growth of cities, as California has
> done through zoning, regulation, NIMBYism, and the
> not-too-subtle racism of slow-growthers is a
> guaranteed path toward gentrification. Anyone who
> understands the concept of "supply and demand"
> should get that building very little new housing
> in the cities creates soaring rents and housing
> costs, because scarcity drives prices up. These
> policies have done more to drive sprawl than our
> meager transportation projects, because much of
> the middle class can only afford to live distant
> hayseed towns. The throttling of the housing
> market by the self-serving "haves" of this state
> will eventually choke California's thriving
> economy.
>
> While limiting population growth may sound noble
> in the abstract, it pretty much always comes down
> to "I have mine, screw everyone else!"

Very succint, totally agree. I would maybe like to move back to my boyhood home of Corvallis, Oregon, but do the artificial demand for housing for OSU students and anti-growth policies, rents are exorbitant.