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More Flexible Zoning Helps Contain Rising Rents
“New data from 4 jurisdictions that are allowing more housing shows sharply slowed rent growth” -
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This is a great article from with new data that shows allowing more housing sharply slowed rent growth. People are tired of the status quo and deserve #morehousingnow.
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There are 100 million new vehicles sold every year. No amount of free bus fare or greener car tech is going to keep us from being spread across creation.
Land use policy is what forces, encourages, and preserves car dependency.
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Hi twitterverse, if you think is about to make a huge mistake by voting to restore exclusionary zoning, feel free to email the City Commission and tell them that: citycomm@gainesvillefl.gov cc
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Dear local elected officials, please remember that the people who show up at community meetings to complain about new housing are not representative of all voters/community members. Nor of the people who would love to move into your community, if more housing got built.
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The opposition of dozens of mayors is part of why we are expecting significant changes in committee today.
If you are interested in this bill one way or another, now is the time to be talking to your state and local officials. (And me.) coloradopolitics.com/legislature/me
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There's a growing movement across the country to reform land use policies that prevent good urbanism.
Join today's #BuildBetterCities convo LIVE on Twitter Spaces
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Great breakdown of how exclusionary zoning laws have been used by local governments to worsen racial segregation and exclude working-class people from wealthy neighborhoods for the past century.
It's time to move the needle forward.
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Sucks that commissioners refuse to understand the research on zoning reforms *supports* what we've tried to do in Gainesville.
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As the study notes, *market rate housing* lowers displacement pressures by slowing the growth of rent, which helps existing residents remain in their homes.
The left-NIMBY myth that zoning reform is a mere tool of gentrifiers? That is demonstrably wrong. pewtrusts.org/en/research-an
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Having balanced the city budget in a recession, new multifamily construction has a positive budget impact. Increases property, real estate and sales taxes. Adds utility rate payers. What hurts the budget? Exclusionary zoning. In fact, apartments subsidize single family.
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Yonah is Marshall McLuhan-ing the NIMBYs who have glommed onto his paper.
"Modest land use reforms have a modest impact on housing production" is not the devastating own some people seem to think it is. It just shows why we need to go big.
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All evidence out there suggests that the larger a zoning reform is in terms of allowances for new units, the more likely it is to result in more units.
That's pretty much the best we can say!
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In our city, nobody wants to live near “the students,” even though all the students live in large complexes near campus
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I’ve got a guess why they made it illegal in 53, n it’s probably a mix of classism and racism, and persists today due to classism. In my experience, folks today generally steer clear of explicitly racist language, but say shockingly insulting things about less wealthy people.
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Next Wednesday night is the vote to make this type of housing illegal in most of the city. Come speak to the commission at 6PM or send them an email at: citycomm@gainesvillefl.gov
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Why did we make this illegal fifty years ago and why is it so "controversial" that we're trying to make it legal today? This quad is currently in a single-family zoned neighborhood and has been destroying the neighborhood character since 1953!
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Almost 70% of residential land in Gainesville is zoned for exclusively single-detached homes. Seems like an inefficient use of that land?
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The rhetorical strategy of exclusionary cities depends on nobody ever verifying a word they say.
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For many, the dream of homeownership feels like it’s moving further out of reach.
That’s why today, we are launching the new Tax-free First Home Savings Account, to help young Canadians and first-time home buyers save up to $40,000 – tax-free!
Learn more:
liberal.ca/budget2023/
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The key to solving Gainesville’s affordability crisis is downzoning all areas currently zoned for multi-family units
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We plan on supporting Gainesville’s future land use policies. We plan to support their no student zoning and their policy that all new housing must be green field low density development. We think this will help affordability in the long run. Join us!
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"New development will get your kids out of your house" may be the winning message, folks.
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Build. The. Homes. This mother describes her "eye opening experience" where she comes to grips with what the housing shortage is doing to her hardworking 25 yr old son making $40,000 a year.
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It’s wild (or predictable?) that around the country so many restrictive land use and zoning laws are rooted in racism and/or classism.
In places where there was absolutely zero racial diversity, poorer white people were the target.
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Ron talks about the zoning changes that are going to be happening in Gainesville. Sadly the commission seems to be convinced that bringing back segregation era zoning is the correct path with *no* alternative plans.
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Call it by its name freegnv.com/2023/03/22/cal
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The umpteenth IPCC report calling for zoning reform for infill housing and the umpteenth time a self described environmentalist will ignore it in favor of green aesthetics and pastoralism.
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Can't wait to see ya'll tonight.
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Join us this Monday at Cypress & Grove Brewing Co. for a meeting!
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Protecting the proletarian golf courses in a state facing a water shortage*
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Protecting the proletarian golf courses
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The membership of Denver DSA has voted to endorse a “NO on 2O” position - denying the developers the ability to execute a plan that we think is ultimately a loss for the city.
Read our statement below if you wish to learn more about why:
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Join us this Monday at Cypress & Grove Brewing Co. for a meeting!
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"Despite pushback from some residents not ready to share their favorite spot, hundreds of cities, from Gainesville, Fla., to Anchorage have overhauled their parking requirements. Dozens have repealed them; 15 in 2022 alone."
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Top story on NYTimes.com: Parking reform
You love to see it.
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This. Not to mention restrictive zoning rather than permitting WAY more by right development means you need to spend time and money seeking variances. This pushes out smaller scale developers leaving the market dominated by a few mega-developers. As with…
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The “deregulating zoning is a blank check for developers” argument conveniently ignores the fact that status quo zoning gives *landlords* a blank check by protecting them from competition from new units.
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We stan Vishnu.
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A 19-year-old UF student is making his pitch to join the city’s plan board. I must say, he made a compelling argument pinned on having student voices heard on issues involving development, housing, etc.
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Do you ever think of how beautiful your city is and the potential for it to be even better if we built housing so more people could experience it? Come join our pro-housing/pro-people movement.
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City Plan board is holding the first vote to reinstate exclusionary zoning. 6:30PM at City Hall. You can also email the plan board your comments at CPB@cityofgainesville.org .
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Hold the phone!
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Apartment rents have been falling with a crush of new supply coming to market on.wsj.com/3xYjnjA
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Well, that was fast. Gainesvilles new city commission is reversing course on hotly contested upzoning of single family neighborhoods.
Zoning reform has had high profile successes recently, but faces tough local battles ahead.
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Last year, Gainesville legalized apartments citywide. Then the NIMBYs took over.
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It was so great to see everyone last night. We had some really good conversations about housing in Gainesville. Would love to see ya'll at the next one.
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Come meet us at Cypress and Grove this Monday for a general meeting!
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