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If that were the case, why would anyone pay to exercise options ever again?

People are free to choose not to run red lights.

Oh yeah, I definitely agree that it's an undesirable housing option, and that it shouldn't be a priority to grow it into the future.

The problem is that in cities that have regulated apartments out of existence it's the only existing place for renters to live, so we should be mindful of things that will squeeze its availability before enough apartments can be built to take up the demand.

I think it's not about the properties of land and water per se, so much as avoiding flying over populated areas where it can be observed directly.

I mean hey, while we're violating international norms...

> The biggest conventional munition they have

> Do people abuse the process? Sure, some do. They get away with it at most once, because...there's a record of it all in housing court and eviction proceedings are pretty much a deathblow with any landlord doing their homework.

The problem is that for large corporate landlords this is a statistical risk that can be priced in and accounted for across hundreds of units.

For small mom-and-pop landlords renting out their basement, it's a roll of the dice on whether any given tenant will completely ruin their life and be impossible to get rid of.

Of course many people will respond to this by saying that the rights of people to have a place to live are more important than the rights of homeowners to have a bit of side income, but if the law makes it too risky to rent out a second suite, nobody will want to do it -- which makes the housing crisis even worse for renters as there will be fewer places available to rent.

As a YIMBY, ADUs are an introductory "first step" policy that should obviously be legal, but were never expected to have any real effect.

True YIMBY policy would be zoning for six-story apartments by-right citywide, with density going up to 20 stories near rapid transit.

But even policies that sound great on paper are often sabotaged by cities with unworkable affordability requirements that prevent anything from being built.

Absolutely, yes. Everyone who voted for Jill Stein is a de facto Trump supporter even if they won't admit it to themselves.

Then why did Trump choose to negotiate and sign the USMCA?

Then why now all of a sudden but not at all 6 months ago?

Then why now all of a sudden instead of 6 months ago?

Even if Trump started out saying he wants to annex Canada for those reasons, his mental state is such that by repeating it he will convince himself to support it for its own sake.

America is committing high-speed cultural suicide and destroying decades of goodwill around the world by alienating its friends and betraying its allies.

I'm not cheering for an American Empire. America is choosing to align itself with a declining dictatorship on the other side of the world, for no particular reason beyond its leader's personal animus towards his domestic political opponents.

> The refrain of “muh allies” is bizarre.

I usually appreciate the well-reasoned intellectual tone of your comments. This is just disappointing.

As for the substance of your comment, America is free to experiment with replacing all of its mutually beneficial relationships with adversarial ones. The consequences might not be particularly advantageous, or easy to undo.

Sounds more like that makes it a particularly good example.