What actually followed included a barrage of vaguely creepy menchies explaining I can't be trusted because: -My wife is a planning commissioner (she is, unpaid) -She's a housing consultant (nope) -She's a professor in some department at Cal (no) -She's a NIMBY activist (no) ...
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-Saved the home of a black man who'd been subjected to a predatory combo of policing, code enforcement, and receivershiphttps://www.berkeleyside.com/2019/06/10/elderly-berkeley-homeowner-forced-to-leave-home-because-of-code-violations-moves-back-in …
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-Organized support for expanding a homeless youth center (which *actual* NIMBYs turned out to shut down, with nary a supportive YIMBY in sight)https://www.berkeleyside.com/2019/09/25/south-berkeley-neighbors-say-new-yeah-youth-shelter-location-wont-work …
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-Campaigned for 100% affordable housing (and a right to return for displaced residents) where there's a surface parking lot around our BART station / prevent the city from backsliding on its existing commitment to at least 50% affordable housing there http://www.friendsofadeline.org/adeline-corridor-planning-process/ …
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^Is where there's a beef with the YIMBs, who in the best version of their argument say you can fund more affordable housing by piling some market-rate onto the site (and in the worst version are in my menchies arguing that 100% affordable housing development is bad unto itself).
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The planning process is just starting. Neither group's put up concrete proposals with identified funding sources. Maybe there will be a productive give-and-take when it gets down to details.
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But doing that gets a *lot* harder when you start by accusing everyone who sincerely wants to put affordable housing first--even if you think their approach is ultimately counterproductive--of using that position as a cover for being against any housing at all.
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You don't need to invent a cartoon villain as a foil to organize for what you actually want. (And, for my role in snarkily pushing the discourse that way from the other side, I apologize.) /end
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