Anything to Fix the Housing Crisis
July 19th, 2022 Barry Posted in Economic cartoons | No Comments »
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TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has six panels. All the panels show two women, one with spiky hair and one with curly hair, talking to each other. The spiky-haired woman is wearing a red and pink striped v-neck tee shirt, shorts, and sneakers. The curly-haired woman is wearing an orange tank top and a purple skirt with a pattern of large dots.
PANEL 1
Spiky is looking distressed, holding her hands to her head; Curly looks determined, pounding her palm with her fist.
SPIKY: The affordable housing crisis gets worse every year!
CURLY: Let’s fix this – I’ll do anything!
PANEL 2
Spiky is enthusiastic, lifting a pointer finger in the air as she makes a point. Curly turns away, holding up a palm in a dismissive way, looking annoyed.
SPIKY: Our biggest problem is the zoning laws. If we allowed taller buildings with units reserved for low-income–
CURLY: I don’t want to live close to those people!
PANEL 3
Spiky is taken aback, and makes her new point with a lot less confidence in her body language. Curly keeps her back turned to Spiky and crosses her arms.
SPIKY: Um… Let’s at least ban single-family zoning. If people could build “granny apartments”–
CURLY: That could change the “feel” of my neighborhood.
PANEL 4
Spiky clasps her hands in front as she makes a new suggestion, almost looking like she’s begging. Curly has turned back to face Spiky and looks angry, arms akimbo.
SPIKY: If we got rid of minimum lot sizes…
CURLY: Ugh! Houses built close together are ugly!
PANEL 5
Spiky makes another suggestion, looking unhappy, and Curly angrily rejects that suggestion.
SPIKY: How about eliminating parking minimums for new housing?
CURLY: And make parking spaces harder to find? Never!
PANEL 6
The characters are drawn smaller, as if we’re exiting this scene. Now Spiky looks annoyed, and her arms are akimbo. Curly looks cheerful and spreads her palms as if she’s making an obvious point.
SPIKY: So when you said you’d do “anything”…?
CURLY: Anything that doesn’t change anything.
