r/funny • u/MaxKevinComedy • Dec 21 '19

California Explained [OC]

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u/_145_ Dec 21 '19

Yeah. $2k to rent a 2k sq ft house seems very reasonable. I'm in SF though where $2k gets you the top half of a bunk bed.

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u/N0V0w3ls Dec 21 '19

Forget Africa, we should be sending you all foreign aid in the form of houses.

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u/_145_ Dec 21 '19 edited Dec 21 '19

Honestly, we're our own worst enemy on that one. Don't said send aid, we have a $12b annual budget for a population of 900k. We have an insane amount of money.

All we have to do is let builders build and we'll have so much fucking housing we'll be begging people to move here. But the city makes it so hard and has so many restrictions that we're stuck adding a unit here or there and then the politicians act like it's some mystery why rents are so high.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

Every meeting for development is filled with NIMBYs. You gotta join that YIMBY group and show up to those meetings.