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The Ruling: No Renovations Until Affordable Housing
from Den Of Snakes | The Tim Dillon Show #378 · #378
5 min
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Tim explains a judge's ruling halting all building permits in Beverly Hills until the city approves affordable housing, mocking the idea of putting low-income housing in one of the world's richest cities.
- Beverly Hills should have affordable housing for poor people, which Tim argues is one of the worst places to actually be poor.
- Tim describes being broke for ten years doing comedy in New York—living on dollar slices and smoking on roofs—versus the misery of being poor in Beverly Hills.
- Getting a $19 smoothie when you're broke in Beverly Hills is worse than nearly anything else, Tim argues.
- The affordable housing in Beverly Hills would be for low-income people, which Tim questions as a practical solution.
- If an entire city is exclusively designed for rich people, it's actually a shitty place to live if you're broke.
- California has halted all construction permits in Beverly Hills until more affordable housing exists.
- No permits for anything—not just major builds but bathrooms, kitchens, stairs, decks—until affordable housing requirements are met.
- Apartment building owners in Beverly Hills can't get permits to repair things their tenants have complained about, either.
- Poor people living in substandard Beverly Hills apartments also can't get landlord repairs done because of the permit freeze.
- Judge Curtis Akin blocked the city from issuing construction permits.