You need landlords who, together control like 20-30% of a market to meaningfully impact prices. You need much larger scale collusion to enter monopoly territory than your SF example. DOJ considers a market with an HHI of less than 1,500 to be competitive. See: www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hhi....
But we don’t have consolidation of ownership of units in the real estate industry, and collusion to fix prices by management companies in the industry is being regulated, with major lawsuits against colluding apartment operators. What’s your point?
Yep. There’s a big difference between ten minutes sitting on a platter on a table and ten minutes in an insulated bag. You could probably get away with 15 minutes in the bag and it would still taste like five minute old pizza.
Cold pizza is totally fine, but pizza also transports quite well in an insulated box. Idk about you, but I also prefer to wait a few minutes after a pizza comes out of the oven, otherwise the cheese just slides right off a slice or gets stuck in my throat. I like to wait for it to solidify a bit.
Breakfast menu
Taco menu
I hope they still have most of this menu, because it was fantastic.
Also, one of the best value weekend brunches I’ve ever had was at Villa Azteca on Main Street.
If you’re in Salinas and getting fast food, you’re doing it wrong unless you’re eating at El Charrito or similar Mexican food. Their tortillas alone are worth buying to take home.
Soak them for an 30-60 min, then par boil them 3-5 min, into an ice bath, then dry them and flash freeze them on a baking sheet for at least two hours. After that you can put them in a bag or container to store in your freezer and bake them like any other frozen fry.
Fresh made fries are arguably healthier, but frozen, processed ones usually win taste tests, and are pretty cheap too. Most restaurants serve previously frozen fries for that reason.
Image of a bag of frozen French fries that cost $3.86
Might as well just stock your own frozen fries and make them yourself when you want good fries at home. They’re cheaper and better than reheating takeout or delivery fries. These Lamb Weston fries are the same ones many restaurants use anyways.
Even burritos can be problematic if they take longer than 20 minutes to deliver because the tortillas will get soggy. Pizza and Chinese food have been the kings of delivery for decades for a reason.
Fries are almost impossible to make taste good unless you eat them immediately after they’re cooked. They cool off too fast if you take them home, and if you try to cover them to retain heat they get soggy. I’ve seen a partial solution of a clamshell w/ vents having somewhat less soggy & cold fries.
Chart of workers hours per week declined for people working over 50 hrs a week.
Chart of weekly pay for workers shows workers pay reduced for those earning $500-800/week.
Yes, it does suck. According to the paper I cited, it appears that they cut hours for a bunch of the workers who had been working 50-60hrs/week, and the result was a bunch of those people got pay cuts compared to what they made before. A lot fewer people made $500-800/week after the law changed.
I think they just want to have a payroll where they don’t have to recruit more workers in order to avoid paying overtime. This study disputes the findings from that other paper: ucanr.edu/blog/anr-new...
Chart showing average hours per worker dropping.
I might be mistaken, but that study seems to be calculating the mean earnings, not median earnings. Workers who work overtime got paid substantially more, but there are substantially fewer workers who work overtime.
The part of her sentence that was cut off was, “the farmworker overtime regulation has resulted in farmworkers earning less, not more.” See: at 44:00, www.youtube.com/live/TeE7gMP...
That’s a different argument than the person I was responding to was making. “Markets are wildly distorted by the actions of actors that own large real estate portfolios.” If you are arguing large mgmt cos collude to price fix, sure. But if they operate legally, they don’t set prices, the market does
A list of the top 25 largest apartment owners in the us. No company has a larger share than 0.42%
Name one major U.S. industry where the biggest players have <0.5% market share.
The apartment business must be the most fragmented major industry.
These numbers were published last week.
Requires, notwithstanding any other law, for a new housing development project proposed for approval by a local government in a food desert, or an area at risk of becoming a food desert, the local government to require the applicant to demonstrate that the new housing development project does not reduce site capacity for a large grocery store, or, if site capacity is reduced, to provide equivalent mitigation, as specified. 16) Requires mitigation to include, at a minimum, dedication of equivalent space and infrastructure for future grocery use, or funding contributions to the FDE Fund, as specified, that are sufficient for a replacement store within one-half mile, as determined by CDFA.
How to kill mixed use housing/commercial developments in California: make housing pay for land for new grocery stores. This is proposed in AB 1674 (Ahrens)
Irrespective of cost, is it even possible to buy the fire engines that fit the city you want? Idk if we can just import them from overseas or what. Consolidation in the industry has limited options and inflated costs. www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/202...
so much of anti-housing politics is pure aestheticism. it fits a certain archetype of activism to be positioned against “developers.” the facts on the ground do not matter.
I just think it’s interesting that despite architects having to know them and work being affected by them, their creation/update process is primarily the domain of building officials and engineers.
The governor general of Canada, who is appointed by the King, technically has the power to dismiss the prime minister. It actually happened in Australia in 1975. Also has power to suspend parliament, which happened in Canada in 2008 to help PM Harper avoid a no-confidence vote.
Isn’t that a civil engineering discipline?
But left NIMBYs are divided about whether condos are good or bad because the ones that have seen the documentaries about vacant Chinese condos and money laundering condos in Florida think they’re also bad. Some think “decommodify housing and replace for-profit housing with social housing or bust.”
I regularly talk to homeowner left-NIMBYs in the flesh who think everyone should be a condo owner so they can build wealth, have price stability, and not enrich corporate landlords.
You’re right to question this. I don’t know of a court case where they determined a state mandate like zoning preemption was a local program. But part of the defense regardless is that costs are recoverable.
Yeah, the idea that cities need to hire police, etc in exact proportion to their increase in housing is not reflective of reality either. Household formation != population growth, and even if it did, that’s a very questionable methodology to justify costs.
The only reason state zoning preemption is not considered an unfunded mandate is because of cities ability to charge impact fees though.