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Ryan Clumpner
@RyanClumpner
My life revolves around trees and dogs. he/him
San Diego, CAJoined February 2009
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The Suburbs, a thread: Low density suburbs were idealized after WWII through massive federal subsidies that dwarf today’s housing subsidies. Simultaneously, urban cores were gutted, hollowed out & rebranded as horrible places only for racial minorities. See images
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Jenn Van Grove
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Replying to @zsbradt
A. I live in the suburbs — intentionally to avoid the density of urban environments B. Photo is being used to show size/scale of permitted “ADUs,” which as you point out, are actually more akin to second houses
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I DMed someone who was trolling me about housing/homelessness. Sent 820 words, very polite and graciously written, addressing every issue she’d brought up in a humble, thoughtful & organized way, and offered to listen to any suggestions. She blocked me as soon as she’d read it.
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Bravo. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Here is an example of CEQA being used against student housing, in this case, 2,000 homes for UCSD students: lajollalight.com/news/story/202
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Senator Scott Wiener
@Scott_Wiener
This should never happen — never. California’s profound lack of student housing is a moral failure. Last year I authored a new law to allow UC, CSU & community colleges to get student housing approved faster (without CEQA). We’ve also put additional funding into the budget. twitter.com/dillonliam/sta…
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If you wonder why I’m so aggressively #YIMBY, this is my home town. A place where nearly every well off person owes their success to the university and early developments surrounding it, while ferociously depriving younger generations of the same opportunities.
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Liam Dillon
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Awful story about UC Davis students camping out overnight in freezing weather to get in line to for a student housing lease for NEXT YEAR. And many of them didn't get it davisvanguard.org/2023/02/studen
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Bird NIMBY.
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Lori Saldaña 😷
@LoriSaldanaSD
Hey #birdwatching tweeps- Are these robins? I’ve been hearing & seeing these noisy newcomers but don’t recognize them as #sandiego locals. Sorry for grainy picture-Only had my cellphone to use They seem to like my trimmed back ficus.
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It’s great to hear that housing will be a priority. There is vast difference between philanthropy that allows wealth to effectively solve real problem vs restricted donations that often make our biggest societal problems worse. Remember Jay Kahn & forget Conrad Prebys.
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Luis Cruz
@NewsCruz
Unexpected and unrestricted: San Diego Foundation gets stunning $100 million gift from stranger sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/
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The best part is actually the end.
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Acyn
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Greene: Can you tell me how much money went to CRT? Dodaro: CRT? Greene: It’s a racist curriculum used to teach children that somehow their white skin not equal to black skin and other things
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Babi Yar is the ravine where 34k Jews of Kyiv were massacred in two days. Before the war, controversy surrounded various gaudy memorial proposals, the oligarch funders & their vision on the site. The UA Choir shows that memorial isn’t about big budgets & famous artists…
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Michael Brodsky
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The Ukrainian Army choir singing Eli Eli at #BabynJar on the #HolocaustMemorialDay
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Kiera Feldman
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SBF got out of jail on a $250 million bond using his parents' house. But it's a faculty home on-campus. They rent the land from Stanford. This isn't how it works for federal defendants who are not white and wealthy 75% are detained awaiting trial
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Sam Bankman-Fried's parents used their house to bail him out. But they rent the land from Stanford
Indicted crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried's $250-million bail deal was the largest ever, secured with his parents' house. But they aren't typical homeowners.
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She’s that neighbor who sees workers through the window and comes out to give them orders. 😂
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Lori Saldaña 😷
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FYi @MayorToddGloria @CM_Jencampbell: The weekend work crew in #D2 just left- without addressing the cracks/potholes just 50 ft. away I showed them I understand they have "work orders"-- but the reality is: The need is much greater than the "get it done" reports suggest. twitter.com/LoriSaldanaSD/…
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Lori Saldaña barred me from replying to tweets. This is I think the fourth time she has done / undone this in the past two weeks. I assume the most recent version was so that she could cheer for a lawyer extracting fees out of assistance for families in need, without pushback.
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To summarize, she is *proud* to have called an elected officially recovering from surgery at home to demand she fix the phone line at city hall.
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Lori Saldaña 😷
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Approx 11:45 am: @CM_Jencampbell posts an update re:phone outages. This was nearly 2 hours after I called her at home at 10 am to inform her of the problem
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Update update: I’m back to being blocked from replying to Lori.
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Update: she reversed course, again. The second time she blocked and unblocked me, at least. Just can’t quit me. 😂 Was going to reply to her with corrections to her facts but decided to let her get further out over her skis for a while. Stay tuned. twitter.com/RyanClumpner/s…
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YESSSSS
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Jason Kint
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The United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division is locked in on Google. The press conference could not have been tighter. Starting at the very top. This is a very big deal. /1
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Unreal. Who does things like this???
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Lori Saldaña 😷
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I called my rep @CM_JenCampbell at home She has been recovering from surgery & has not been at work all month I wished her a full recovery and told her the Council office phone is not in service so she could advise her staff that this directory is wrong: sandiego.gov/citycouncil
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This makes me so happy.
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Kevin Sabellico
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“People in my generation will struggle to afford housing if cities like Del Mar and all across the coast don’t provide for more affordable housing options for its workforce, residents, small business owners," said Kevin Sabellico. 10news.com/news/local-new
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David Frum
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So weird that the Twitter Files editors missed this instance of state power being used to pressure the social-media platform
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Catie Edmondson
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After Ms. Greene’s Twitter was shut down for violating Covid misinformation policies, she demanded Mr. McCarthy “fix” it. Over the next 2 months, his general counsel would spend hours on the phone with Twitter execs arguing her case. ⁦@jonathanvswan⁩ nytimes.com/2023/01/23/us/
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10 years ago yesterday, I put down my last drink. Best decision I ever made. It gave me space to become the person I wanted to be.
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Update: she reversed course, again. The second time she blocked and unblocked me, at least. Just can’t quit me. 😂 Was going to reply to her with corrections to her facts but decided to let her get further out over her skis for a while. Stay tuned.
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Lori blocked me from replying to her. I guess she got tired of me asking if she supports Permanent Supportive Housing in her neighborhood. (She doesn’t. Classic NIMBY.)
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Matthew Boomhower
@mcboomhower
Homelessness is a housing issue. This further underscores that we need to be producing more housing, at every price point, in every neighborhood in San Diego. We cannot wait for affordable housing projects to get us out of this mess.
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Voice of San Diego
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Conversations about housing homeless residents often focus on subsidized housing. But regional data shows a majority of unhoused people ultimately end up renting on their own. bit.ly/3Xz4M8S
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These arguments are widely debunked by economists and virtually all all national experts on the subject of homelessness. It flies in the face basic logic, current local and national data. Not fit for print. Housing solves homelessness.
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Paul Krueger
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Try uc ⁦@sdutOpinion⁩ for sharing these letters with your readers.
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Important story. Thoughts: 1) How much easier this path would be for unhoused folks if we had adequate housing inventory. Market rate housing is directly connected. 2) PSH is a triage solution, essential for high-need cases. 3) homelessness is largely economic, NOT “drugs.”
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Lisa Halverstadt
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Conversations about housing homeless residents often focus on subsidized housing. But @RTFHSD data shows a majority of formerly unhoused San Diegans ultimately end up renting on their own. voiceofsandiego.org/2023/01/17/mos
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