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Laura Foote Clark&nbsp;@NeverSassyLaura&nbsp;[https://twitter.com/NeverSassyLaura/status/953048707041128448 3:38 PM - 15 Jan 2018]<br/> "Working on a "grab bag" of other policies for YIMBYs.<br/> Please get in touch if you'd like to work together on proposals for (or if you have existing policy proposals for)...<br/> (1) Vacancy Tax<br/> (2) Good demolition controls<br/> (3) New funding sources for Aff Housing<br/> (4) Add to this list"

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== Vacancy tax ==

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== Demolition controls&nbsp; ==

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== Funding sources for Affordable Housing&nbsp; ==

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== Source-of-income nondiscrimination ==

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== Construction costs ==

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== Mandatory disclosure of the people in control of real property ==

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== Form-based codes ==

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== Maximum minimums: 1) Lot size 2) parking requirements 3) units per acre 4) FAR ==

(Dan Keshet).&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;

== Limit&nbsp;landmarking and&nbsp;historical&nbsp;preservation<br/> &nbsp; ==

== Repeal Article 34,<br/> &nbsp; ==

(California law&nbsp;which requires public vote to for cities to build public housing and low-income housing financed by bonds).&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;

== Height minimums near transit, overridable&nbsp;only by&nbsp;supermajority vote of city council<br/> &nbsp; ==

== Accessory Dwelling Units everywhere<br/> &nbsp; ==

== Use regional commercial vacancy rates as a trigger to allow residential development on commercially zoned areas. ==

(Angela Hockabout)<br/> &nbsp;

== Empower office parks to build housing on top. ==

(Angela Hockabout)&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;

== Land value tax&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp; ==

== Allows municipal rental it on net rental income, and increase the rate.&nbsp; ==

(currently is only on gross rental income).&nbsp;<br/> Replace impact fees with a partial set aside of rental income tax revenue. Tax all landlords, not just new one. Tax profit, not investment.<br/> (@Maxtropolitan).&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;

== Combined vacancy and rent receipts tax to approximate a land value tax ==

Yonathan Randolph @yonran

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== Smarter property tax policy with circuit breaker credits ==

(Marc Love)

*Automatic 
*Based on income 
*Available to renters 
*Have an appropriate cap to exclude expensive residential property 

[https://itep.org/property-tax-circuit-breakers-1/ https://itep.org/property-tax-circuit-breakers-1/]

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== Convert excess street, highway, parking space to housing ==

Lyle Solla-Yates‏&nbsp; @LyleSollaYates&nbsp;6:07 PM - 15 Jan 2018<br/> "Skinny streets, urban highway demo, and closing public streets and parking for housing. Basically review public land, and if its current use isn’t better than housing...housing."

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== By-right story additions ==

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== Reform when the exclusionary terms of an HOA’s CC&Rs are enforceable ==

Yonathan Randolph @yonran<br/> "At the state level, reform when the exclusionary terms of an HOA’s CC&Rs are enforceable. Set a time limit, or allow countywide referendum of exclusionary terms."

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== Zoning can't be more restrictive than 50th percentile of what exists ==

<br/> Jake Larkin @jakelarkn<br/> zoning (setbacks / lot coverage / height) that can't be more restrictive than the 50th+ percentile of what already exists.

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== Sensible rent stabilization&nbsp; ==

dril, but not woke‏&nbsp;@ebarcuzzi&nbsp;3:42 PM - 15 Jan 2018<br/> "Sensible rent stabilization rules that don't discourage new development, but do encourage redevelopment of under built properties."

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== References ==

*Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). "Property Tax Circuit Breakers." ITEP Policy Brief, September 14, 2016.&nbsp;<br/> [https://itep.org/property-tax-circuit-breakers-1/ https://itep.org/property-tax-circuit-breakers-1/]