From: ltlee1@hotmail.com   
      
   "Earlier this year, the Pentagon swooped in to give Katie Hobbs,   
   Arizona’s Democratic governor, the perfect reason to veto a valuable   
   bill. The proposed Arizona Starter Homes Act sought to legalize smaller   
   dwellings to address the affordability crisis straining the fast-growing   
   state. After the state legislature had already passed the bill, a   
   regional Navy official wrote a letter to Hobbs opposing it. The   
   intervention seemed bizarre, as I noted in an article at the time. But   
   now we know what happened: The U.S. military was doing a favor for a   
   NIMBY local government—in this case, the city of Glendale, a Phoenix   
   suburb that is also home to Luke Air Force Base.   
      
   The episode reveals something important about how the nation’s current   
   housing crisis came about: The shortage of homes is the result of   
   thousands of decisions that barely anyone is paying attention to—and   
   that in many cases happen outside public view.   
   ..   
   The bare facts here are infuriating: The democratically elected   
   representatives of the people of Arizona were able to come together with   
   a commonsense solution to the nation’s most pressing economic problem,   
   and a staff member at a mid-size city was able to call in the military   
   to provide the governor cover to veto? Without so much as a public vote?   
      
   Garcia surmised that what the Department of Defense did is part of a   
   larger pattern. “My guess is, for far too long, large organizations like   
   DOD have engaged in these types of efforts—sometimes public and other   
   times maybe not,” he told me. “And folks never really find out about   
   it.”"   
      
   https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/how-glendale-a   
   izona-used-pentagon/679980/   
      
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