It was reasonable to expect it was legal. The local planning commission agreed, and the law was passed in part to prevent petty tyrants like HOAs to block housing construction. But the courts are weird so we’ll see. Hope he can appeal.
I disagree with you. HOAs are way worse. And the fuck landlords stuff is pretty silly when we’re talking about a single homeowner trying to build more housing for people to live in while we’re in a severe housing shortage. A shortage created deliberately by these HOA types so that they can live in comfort.
we’re talking about a single homeowner trying to build more housing for people to live in
Dude is painting his garage white and going to charge $2k/mnt for it.
Sorry but the myth of smol landlord good, needs to die, too often they hide behind being a small bean that can’t afford to maintain their property while tenants suffer from health conditions as a result of their illegal renovations or failure to fix issues in a timely manner.
The YIMBY propoganda that they selflessly providing housing needs to die too. I’m not fan of HOA’s but if you can convert a condo into a 3-bed, generating an extra 24k/year, that’s going to increase house prices not decrease them.
The only way to solve the housing crisis is through proper planning and the state putting resources towards building affordable homes, the shortage wasn’t created by HOAs & NIMBYS either, it was created by neoliberalism that destroyed the capacity of the state to build affordable homes, that’s why it’s a global problem and YIMBYs refuse to acknowledge that and also can never point to the specific laws that cause the issue (for example CEQA does delay planning in California, but it doesn’t explain the same exact slowdown in development in the rest of America/the west)
Exactly. I’m not saying this guy is a saint or anything but he’s trying to increase the supply of housing in the world and that’s a good thing. And trying to block him because you have some grandiose plan for the state to build a bunch of housing in some distant future utopia is very counterproductive. Like I’m all for decommodifying housing but best case that takes some time, and people need places to live today.
San Diego like most cities has more empty homes (75k) than unhoused people (9k), the problem is not a lack of housing units but that the ones that exist are kept empty because it’s more profitable to speculate on house prices than to risk renting it out and then not being able to sell it for the most potential profit later.
In that context, I don’t think painting your garage white and renting it out is necessarily a good thing as it will drive house prices even higher.
ADU’s are also a solution brought up by planners to address increasing housing supply in a built suburban environment.
I said proper planning, upzoning and letting the market decide what gets built (including ADUs) is what got us into this mess, it won’t get us out of it.
Man claims to be broke, spends $100k trying to make more money.
Doesn’t add up.
Well I mean he’s saying he’s broke after he spent the money expecting a return. Makes sense.
PS: Bullshit decision, fuck HOAs.
Maybe he should have checked it was legal conversion before doing it, he’d sat on the HOA board before.
Also fuck landlords, far more harmful to the housing market than HOAs
It was reasonable to expect it was legal. The local planning commission agreed, and the law was passed in part to prevent petty tyrants like HOAs to block housing construction. But the courts are weird so we’ll see. Hope he can appeal.
I disagree with you. HOAs are way worse. And the fuck landlords stuff is pretty silly when we’re talking about a single homeowner trying to build more housing for people to live in while we’re in a severe housing shortage. A shortage created deliberately by these HOA types so that they can live in comfort.
Dude is painting his garage white and going to charge $2k/mnt for it.
Sorry but the myth of smol landlord good, needs to die, too often they hide behind being a small bean that can’t afford to maintain their property while tenants suffer from health conditions as a result of their illegal renovations or failure to fix issues in a timely manner.
The YIMBY propoganda that they selflessly providing housing needs to die too. I’m not fan of HOA’s but if you can convert a condo into a 3-bed, generating an extra 24k/year, that’s going to increase house prices not decrease them.
The only way to solve the housing crisis is through proper planning and the state putting resources towards building affordable homes, the shortage wasn’t created by HOAs & NIMBYS either, it was created by neoliberalism that destroyed the capacity of the state to build affordable homes, that’s why it’s a global problem and YIMBYs refuse to acknowledge that and also can never point to the specific laws that cause the issue (for example CEQA does delay planning in California, but it doesn’t explain the same exact slowdown in development in the rest of America/the west)
Smol landlord may not be good, but it is better than not building the home.
ADU’s are also a solution brought up by planners to address increasing housing supply in a built suburban environment.
Exactly. I’m not saying this guy is a saint or anything but he’s trying to increase the supply of housing in the world and that’s a good thing. And trying to block him because you have some grandiose plan for the state to build a bunch of housing in some distant future utopia is very counterproductive. Like I’m all for decommodifying housing but best case that takes some time, and people need places to live today.
Is it?
San Diego like most cities has more empty homes (75k) than unhoused people (9k), the problem is not a lack of housing units but that the ones that exist are kept empty because it’s more profitable to speculate on house prices than to risk renting it out and then not being able to sell it for the most potential profit later.
In that context, I don’t think painting your garage white and renting it out is necessarily a good thing as it will drive house prices even higher.
I said proper planning, upzoning and letting the market decide what gets built (including ADUs) is what got us into this mess, it won’t get us out of it.