Stripe to donate $1M to California Yimby
Stripe cofounder here.<p>This is an issue that I know a lot of HN readers care about and I'd encourage anyone interested to get involved. (Feel free to reach out to CA YIMBY, your local representatives, or any of the other organizations doing good work in the field.)<p>Bad housing policy is one of the biggest impediments to overall economic growth[1] and to individual economic opportunity[2][3] in the US. Our current restrictive policies disproportionately hurt poorer, younger, and (frequently) non-white[4] people. I really hope we can change them.<p>[1] <a href="https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/chang-tai.hsieh/research/growth.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/chang-tai.hsieh/research/gr...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/83656/2000907-strategies-for-increasing-housing-supply-in-high-cost-cities-dc-case-study_1.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/83656/...</a><p>[3] From the Obama administration: <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images/Housing_Development_Toolkit%20f.2.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images...</a><p>[4] <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Color-Law-Forgotten-Government-Segregated/dp/1631492853" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Color-Law-Forgotten-Government-Segreg...</a>