Who wants Housing?

maybe require identification on social media

Social media ID cuts both ways. Fascists would be the ones willing to use it to fuck people.

Require garbage to be sorted and actually fine people.

There was a guy in DC that got roasted, fined an entire apartment building because he found a single can in the trash stream. I like the idea, but there's a lot of power in that inspector postion.

massively shorten prison sentences and focus on re education to end “prison culture”,

I like it, we also need to super prop up the people that get out. Strong programs to keep them employed and fed and a support net to keep them from dropping back through the cracks. Most would be willing to work and become productive but the system is designed to reclaim them.

build up light rail and ban cars in cities except for delivery purposes,

That's fine if you never want to leave the city. A cheap driveshare program dedicated to city users with easy access from the subway would probably be needed. Also the subway is somewhat more unreliable than I'd like to see that pass.

ban landlords, the local govt takes ownership of rental properties and contracts property managers or something

That's another hard one. If the local government owns it, if the right gets in again, they could just destroy the poor. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have some working social systems, but building a utopia probably can't start in the middle of NYC. We'd need to go disney style and put in something semi rural as a testing ground.

Good except:
ID on social media: I believe in a fully anonymous web, maybe instead mandate them to ban right wing and alt left accounts?
Ban private schools: This hurts alternatives to governmental things
Mandate vaccines: Good, except that this would worsen their reputation, mandating would be more conspiracy-able
Government takes rental properties: No, the alt left tried that, no, just no. What could work is the government determining the rent on a property.

Every single one of those will take about a decade in court battles to get passed (at a federal level). It could be quicker if you figure out how to introduce legislature on a state-level, but that is an incredibly volatile strategy (every state's billionaires will fight against it). Many, if not all, will lose out unless you strategize grass-roots movements for every single one of those issues. People love cops. People love blaming poor people. People love blaming others on their problems. No legislature of yours will fix that, so you also need to fix societal issues.

Just saying, this is what people say when they talk about idealism over pragmatism. It's great to have big ideas, but you need exponentially larger ideas on strategizing to prevent those ideas from failing. None of this will happen overnight unless something revolutionary happens, and Democrats don't want that---they will fight against radical change, it goes against the party's entire ideology. Measured, temperate, incremental change is the policy of the Democrats. These are incredibly radical ideas to the normal voting population and you have to convince them, not us autists on lemmy, that they are worth spending time and energy on instead of putting food on the table or stressing out on bills.

They're all great ideas that should work in theory and probably would in practice in many ways, but having good ideas isn't what gets votes. Having a plan all while appealing to low information voters (absolutely necessary, and is what destroys this world at the moment unfortunately and no new law will fix that) is the name of the game.

You know how Texas just threatened tariffs on people moving in? He should do the opposite; a large% tax on anyone attempting to change their residency to a non NY one.

Youre a bilionaire who wants to leave NY? cool- that $10M in property you own should just about cover it, along with a check for a couple million. Otherwise you can keep paying taxes here.

Wealth tax. Probably more useful than maximum wage, anyway.

I was with you until the trash sorting. That sounds like a great way to get people to recycle even less.

Tl:dr rich people are crybabies? Who knew.

i'm laughing harder at the posts from TX saying 'the south is full, so don't come down here when NY turns into a communist hellhole'.

"oh no, my rent is frozen! we've got to get out of here!"

"where are we gonna go?"

"mexico.... ish"

As if tax free Delaware is Shangri la. No one writes songs about Delaware weather or women.

I really wish conservatives would leave progressive areas alone. They're constantly attacking California, and cities across the US. Their goal isn't to raise the standard of living in their own communities, but to make the rest of the country worse

It's ironic that they would move to another country because someone they perceive as an immigrant has been elected. Then again these people are not well endowed in the brain department.

Americans are not the world's favourite group of people right now, so I suspect emigrating would be difficult, unless they want to go and fight Russia's war for them then I'm sure they'll be welcome.

A hard-nosed business-style analysis yields the simple conclusion that such talkie-talkie only has upsides for them. Because doing it costs nothing:

• If it yields results, they gain from it.
• If it does not yield results they're no worse of than if they hadn't said anything.

So, yeah, they'll say whatever when they can only gain from it and at worst lose nothing at all from saying it.

Such kind of discourse should be treated as "lies until proven otherwise".

Oh, these people don't walk. Presumably they'll be chauffeured.

If you quit, I'm quitting!
Also never happens.

That was when he thought he'd actually be prosecuted for his crimes.

Then he realized it was all talk - just one mugshot and a fine.

Look at the UK and what was done there when Corbyn - a real deal leftie - was elected leader of the Labour party (which hadn't be left of center for decades until then).

Prepare for the establishments Democrats to cooperate with Republicans and pretty much the entirety of the Press including the "progressive" newspapes to slander him relentlessly.

In Britain they kept on claiming that Corbyn and Labour under Corbyn were "anti-semitic", but nowadays after what Israel has done and how that accusation was so abused by those genociders and their supporters to excuse mass murdering of children, I doubt that strategy would work, even in the US (though notice that some are still half-hearthedly trying it with talk about how Jewish New Yorkers should be afraid).

Just beware: in the UK once they managed to kick out Corbyn the neoliberal faction took over Labour again, did a purge of any leftwing members of the party and now - only thanks to their First Past The Post system - are in government and doing things like convicting people to jail for participating in demonstrations, most notably by declaring of the peaceful protesting groups Palestine Action as a "Terrorist Organisation" and then arresting old ladies for demonstrating against the Gaza Genocide by supporting it, though they're doing a lot more than that since they've passed more generic "public nuisance" legislation to de facto make demonstrations illegal.

The neoliberals that infiltrated the supposedly leftwing mainstream parties in power duopoly "Democracies", when push comes to shove are little more than Fascists with fancy suits, smooth talk and extra varnish.

It'll become more hysterical and comedic.

Obama's tan suit has entered the chat...

Imagine how much housing would go down if one million people simultaneously left the fucking city, that would be amazing

An analysis isn't really going to work without a lot of extra information. People don't just leave overnight because if they own property, which is the claim here, then they have to find someone to buy it. And as other people start leaving property values would plummet so then there would be less incentive for more people to leave.

And to begin with, really poor people have incredible difficulty moving in general, because they don't have extra money saved up to pay for a truck or to get a new apartment or to take time off of work to deal with all of that or to even apply for jobs in distant locations.

So let's move on to middle class renters. What about them, would they leave? But if somehow they did, that, would I think make room for a lot of other people to move into the city. As you know, many people commute from New Jersey and dislike it on account of the fact that they have to live in New Jersey and if they could move into the city they would probably do so. And then there's all of the other people who don't currently live in or near New York who are hearing about this person who might make the city an amazing place, from their point of view, and if they can get in on it then they're going to.

So I don't see the population significantly declining even if you somehow had people moving in and out at record numbers, and even that doesn't seem like it makes sense.

Wikipedia say NY has 8.4m population in 2024. Easiest math, 1 in 8 can choose to leave. A little more detail, of those 1-in-8, they may or may not be politically motivated to relocate.

100% tariffs. When you import one person you have to give them one person. So it's best to be pregnant so you'll make another person to give to the state.

Poconos, KY

It's NY post. They hate him

When you're a Jet you're a Jet all the way

That's where their second houses are already. Grew up there. Lots of New Yorkers in the winter.