From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   BTR1701   wrote:   
   >On Jan 6, 2026 at 10:00:06 AM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman""  wrote:   
   >   
   >> BTR1701   wrote:   
   >>> On Jan 5, 2026 at 10:05:01 PM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman""    
   wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>  BTR1701  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>>  . . .   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>  If I own a house and I want, for whatever reason, to leave it empty for   
   a   
   >>>>>  period of time, that's none of the government's goddam business. It's   
   *my*   
   >>>>>  house. I can rent it, live in it, leave it empty, let my kid stay   
   >in it for   
   >>>>>  free, or bulldoze it to the ground. Mam-fuckin'-dani doesn't get a say.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>  The government completely intrudes on your life. Socialism never goes   
   >>>>  away.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>  Your typical homeowner, not in a homeowners' association, owns the land   
   >>>>  as fee simple. This includes a bundle of rights, but not all rights. You   
   >>>>  don't own your air space, which is a good thing with respect to flights   
   >>>>  thousands of feet above but a bad thing when it comes to drone   
   >>>>  surveillance. You don't own mineral rights, so you can't dig for   
   >>>>  petroleum nor rare earth elements.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>  Let's say you want to use your own land to its highest and best use. Say   
   >>>>  there's a major transportation facility nearby and your land might be   
   >>>>  desireable for commercial/industrial use or multi-family housing. But   
   >>>>  your land is zoned single family preventing you from redeveloping it.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>  No court ever ruled that deliberate downzoning by the municipality or   
   >>>>  county is a taking. It should be.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>  Mamdani or not, you are not free to do what you wish with your own land.   
   >>>   
   >>> I said house, not land.   
   >>   
   >> Let's say the house isn't building code compliant. You may be denied   
   >> permission to live there during renovation. They can slow walk building   
   >> permits and raise irrelevancies during inspection or even shut the work   
   >> down. They can add so many unnecessary expenses to the project that it's   
   >> too costly to perform the work.   
   >>   
   >> There are communities with appearance review codes.   
   >>   
   >> Rent? You may need a permit, and short-term rentals may be denied since   
   >> the onus is on you to prove that the short term traveller isn't there to   
   >> have a very loud party or harm the neighborhood.   
   >>   
   >> Demolition? No permit; your house is historic.   
   >   
   >Which is exactly the kind of fuckery that shouldn't be legal under the   
   >Constitution. You're making my point for me.   
      
   I wasn't disagreeing. I was ranting. Socialism of this nature is truly   
   egregious and an important contributing factor to the housing shortage.   
      
   Ending socialism's intrusion in the free market would help reverse the   
   housing shortage.   
      
   btw, some professor commented that there was a Supreme Court case in   
   1916 that ruled that deliberate underzoning wasn't unconstitutional. I   
   didn't hear the name of the case. Is this familiar to you?   
      
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