In a stunning move Wednesday, a state bill that would have sharply curtailed the short-term rental of homes in San Diego County's coastal communities was held for a year by its author, even as the legislation had cleared the California Assembly and multiple Senate committees.The decision by Assemblywoman Tasha Boerner Horvath, D-Encinitas, came amid heavy lobbying in Sacramento by short-term rental heavyweights Airbnb, HomeAway and VRBO, who asserted that the legislation would have had a devastating impact on the region's tourism economy and unfairly barred the owners of second homes from renting out their properties for short-term stays.
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
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Horvath is a complete LOSER! What a disappointment!
ReplyDeleteEverything the left does fails. Just another example how the left ruins everything they do. They are the enemy within
ReplyDeleteYou make soda flat.
Delete"unfairly barred the owners of second homes from renting out their properties for short-term stays."
ReplyDeleteThey're called rentiers, which is a more polite word for slumlords.
AirBnB and VRBO destroy communities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rentier_state
ReplyDeleteI’ve stayed in ABnB and VRBO rentals many times all around the world.
ReplyDeleteIt’s yet another smart innovation developed by bright minds right here in California.
California is the place where four of the ten most valuable companies on earth were incubated and grown. We are the innovators in the US and the global economy. We brought the world the computer, semiconductors, the internet, the cell phone, the smart phone, targeted gene therapy, reusable rockets, social media, mass produced electric cars, music, entertainment, home automation, artificial intelligence and more. At the same time we produce more agricultural product than any other state.
Red states should be asking themselves why Republican leaders have failed to create conditions to invent anything but diabetes, racism, and attacks on science.
Because everything the right does fails.
Delete8:52 if you do some reading you'll take note that many big companies are leaving California and going to Texas and Arizona.
ReplyDeleteFor those that remain blissfully ignorant, the real estate arm of Microsoft spent 165 million buying property in West Valley in Miracopa County. Google spent more in the same area. And now that the America hating leftist governor has signed a bill giving free medical care to more illegals aliens, expect the number of fleeing to rise. The left is the enemy of the United States
These vacation rentals ruin neighborhoods. Of course if people are renters themselves, they, the renter don't care.
A lesson in innovation economy economics:
DeleteNew innovative businesses need the best talent and capital to incubate and grow. That talent doesn’t come cheap. This is what California does better than anywhere on earth. Invent, incubate, iterate, and grow.
Once a business has reached maturity, competition causes margins to compress and growth begins to stall. At this point running the business becomes about taking cost out and managing decline for profitability. This is often when Texas and Arizona come into play, because they offer cheaper labor. The labor isn’t as talented, but that doesn’t really matter, because the creative innovation stage has ended.
During maturity, wages get cut, benefits get cut, layoffs are constant, and offshoring or outsourcing your job is a constant threat. Working at a mature and declining business is terrible, and this is what’s going on when jobs move to AZ and TX.
Meanwhile, back in CA, the smarter and more talented people move on to inventing and growing the next big thing.
This is the innovation economy that has driven US economic growth for the last 50 years, and CA is leading it.
I would rather work on the growth side of the business maturity curve than the red state decline side, but that’s just me.
“Massachusetts, Washington, Connecticut and Maryland followed California at the top of the innovation scale to round out the top five.”
Delete“The bottom four positions were unchanged from three years earlier, with Mississippi (50), West Virginia (49), Arkansas (48) and Louisiana (47).”
What do the top states driving US economic innovation and growth all have in common? What do the bottom states all have in common?
Republicans are anti-science, and fixated on the past (MAGA?). Economic success comes with an embrace of STEM, and a focus on the future. Red states will continue to be backwater shitholes until they learn this simple lesson.
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-04-16/california-is-no-1-massachusetts-no-2-in-u-s-innovation-rank
Damn! Pesky facts.......
ReplyDeleteWell, at least we know the earth is not flat - if it were, the cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now....
10:30 a.m sooo you are writing the Microsoft and Google have reached their maturity and that these two are declining?
ReplyDeleteWho knew?
Republicans are Anti-science, huh? Gosh, I never heard that before.
And not one of you mention giving free healthcare to illegal aliens with tax payer money and the ruining of neighborhoods with vacation rentals. You all better check your stats when it comes to wealth in Arizona and Texas. You haven't a clue.
Typical
Ohhhh' I forgot. Nike is spending 184 million dollars in Surprise Arizona and will be providing over 500 jobs. I guess they are on the downslide as well. Do your homework
ReplyDeleteWhy was the comment here deleted?
DeletePay no attention to 3:30 = 3:44. He's the same moron who denies global warming on the basis of no knowledge, no research and "facts" he gleaned from Fox and wacko websites. He doesn't know that an uninformed opinion is worth less than zero.
ReplyDeleteHorvath is a true politician now - taking bribes to fatten her account. She should take seminars from Duncan Hunter - me first, constituents last.
ReplyDeleteBull in a china shop sounds like the same as her tenure here was.
ReplyDeleteWell, let's hear from H? What did she say in her press release?
ReplyDeleteHere it is: Wednesday, July 10, 2019
ReplyDeleteSacramento, CA – State Assemblymember Tasha Boerner Horvath issued the following statement regarding her decision to make AB 1731 a two-year bill.
“I am proud to be working this year with my colleagues on solutions that will help address the very real need for homes for families, seniors, young people, and veterans throughout our state. However, any of the difficult work we do to bring people together to address our unprecedented housing crisis is undermined when we continue to allow the hyper-accelerated conversion of available housing into full-time short-term vacation rentals made possible by web-based platforms like Airbnb. That was why I introduced AB 1731.
“This bill has always been about slowing the bleeding when it comes to our housing stock and returning some semblance of control to our local communities. I have worked diligently with community stakeholders and my colleagues in the Assembly and Senate throughout the process to craft a bill that could do just that. Even after the bill’s successful passage yesterday from Senate Natural Resources with a 6-1 vote, I was still working on amendments to refine it.
“I was elected to create sound public policy, not score quick political wins. That is why I made the decision today to hold the bill and take more time to work on it through the next year. Our state is in a housing crisis, not a short-term vacation rental crisis, and I remain committed to looking for ways to preserve our existing housing, use what we have more efficiently, and grow where we can.”
unprecedented housing crisis? WTF?
ReplyDeletethere is no crisis. You have money, you can rent or buy a home. Its called free enterprise. Suggestion- get a job and make some $$$.
New development for the masses should be targeted to areas with water. Not more in an overdeveloped desert like SW USA. Watch Cadillac Desert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkbebOhnCjA
She fits (barely) in with the Sac crap. Nothing good comes from sad Sac.
ReplyDelete9:00 has it right. The so-called housing "crisis" is manufactured by the BIA and pushed by greased-palm politicians.
ReplyDeleteThink of a shark: it must swim continually or die. Now think of developers: they must build continually or go bankrupt. They could build elsewhere, where there's plenty of land and water, but those places don't make the big bucks like so many California cities targeted by the BIA. No mystery about why the language around housing is so hysterical.
Horvath is just another BIA mouthpiece - nothing more, nothing less.
Horvath is 1. Woefully inexperienced. On the planning commission for months (not years) before going for council, and on council for months (not years) before going for assembly. 2. Not from Encinitas. Lived here for a couple of years in her family's property before entering politics a "3rd generation Encinitian" whatever that means. Grew up elsewhere. Why she was elected to anything falls on our stupid voters who loved her glossy BS campaign flyers.
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