How Paris’s mayor helped the city breathe again (www.newstatesman.com)
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jtrek@startrek.website on 21 Mar 18:28 next collapse

“Public space in Paris is chaos,” right-winger Rachida Dati said recently

No right winger is worth listening to. I know nothing about Dati, but I am confident they are full of bad ideas.

Dati’s proposals for the city include making it cheaper to park and getting rid of the low-emission zone in the city centre.

As foretold.

Every right wing idea is bad, and people proposing them should at best be laughed out of the room.

Canaii@lemmy.zip on 21 Mar 18:45 next collapse

Not every left-wing idea is great and not every right-wing idea is bad. It really depends.

For instance, american red states have really dumb gun laws but they make it very easy to build housing.

jtrek@startrek.website on 21 Mar 19:18 collapse

Building housing isn’t a right wing idea.

TDSOJohn@lemmy.world on 21 Mar 19:58 next collapse

They definitely mastered building houses on private islands

Canaii@lemmy.zip on 21 Mar 20:22 collapse

Building housing isn’t a right wing idea.

In the United States, it is.

  • California or New York barely build any housing.

  • States like Texas or Florida build a shit-ton of housing.

besi.berkeley.edu/…/what-drives-high-costs-in-blu…

Sad but true.

NotSteve_@piefed.ca on 21 Mar 20:55 next collapse

What kinds of housing are Texas and Florida building?

jtrek@startrek.website on 21 Mar 21:32 next collapse

Democrats aren’t especially left, so I’m not sure you can really look at states controlled by the democratic party as a fair comparison. The US doesn’t have much of a left. Many democrats are conservative, especially when its things close to home (eg: nimbyism, “i like black people i just don’t want to live next to one”, etc).

We have outliers like Mayor Mamdani who want to build more housing, but he’s notably a DSA member. He does have policies for housing which are more effective than “fewer regulations and the market will solve it”.

As such, if the argument is “Conservative controlled areas have fewer regulations, and thus more housing gets built”, that’s a very tenuous argument. The right wing ideology at play isn’t “We should build more housing” but rather the usual “No one tells me what to do” attitude endemic to right wing thinking.

Furthermore, conservative areas tend to be sparser, which makes for more room to build, with fewer restrictions New York City is already dense. Adding more stuff is going to be more difficult and complicated than adding another building to Tumbleweeds, AR.

Lastly, if you did somehow prove that “conservative solutions to the housing crisis are good, actually, and aren’t just deregulation and capitalist market solutions”, I guess I would have to update my statement to “Almost all right wing ideas are bad”. But as I’m not convinced this is the exception, I stand by my original claim.

hanrahan@slrpnk.net on 21 Mar 22:18 collapse

In the United States, it is.

Dems in the US are conservatives, as Chris Hedges points out, they’d be centre right in Europe.

ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 21 Mar 19:33 collapse

She is the average right wing idiot and scares people with insecurity and shifts to far-right ideas real fast. 😬

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ThugLaTaupe@lemmy.world on 21 Mar 20:37 collapse

This article is a pack of lies… As always with Hidalgo…

CactusEcho@piefed.social on 21 Mar 23:49 collapse

One thing that these articles fail to mention is that the previous mayor, Bertrand Delanoë, was the one that put the ball rolling for the changes that hidalgo was able to do… So without him, Hidalgo wouldn’t have made the changes.

But i wouldn’t call this omission a “pack of lies”. Anyway since I don’t follow french politics, can you tell what are the lies?