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[–] 9 points 3 days ago

A good reform would accelerate democratically planned affordable housing, transit, and green infrastructure, while preserving workers' and affected communities' power over pollution and development. Prop 45 instead applies broad deregulation across many kinds of private and public projects, concentrating this power in the hands of developers themselves. There’s a reason for this. This reform was written by and for some of the most rapacious capitalists in the state.

This legislation — like 41 and 42 — was a billionaire-backed Trojan horse.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    "Streamlined" = loopholing laws designed to protect our world from these commercial developers. This was not a housing initiative, it was a corporate profit initiative, and that is why it failed.

    Now, let's talk about the proposition that pays billions of dollars to 1 man and his 2 employees for "disease research" that passed......

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago

    Seventeen stories of retail, one story of luxury condos, one million dollar subsidized unit. Boo-fuckin-hoo 😌

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago

    There were some reports that the text of Prop 45 would have allowed datacenter construction to bypass environmental review, so I'm super glad it has failed.

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