Meanwhile regional property values have doubled every economic cycle since the 1980s.
and then being from the South Bay, I am biased to believe that whatever happens there foreshadows what happens to SF/East Bay in a couple years to a decade....
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @uhshanti and
So I’m like let’s do all of the above aggressively. Large affordable housing funding, changes to CH and large amounts of building. But every time we fight each other, those who own the land always win.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @uhshanti and
i've been here 27 years, actually do this housing stuff for a living, studied it in grad and undergrad, and I'll say there are some other constants: people who claim "we should do it all" but always seem way more interested in delving into why we can't
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Replying to @upwithppl @kimmaicutler and
aka the aggregate (yes, there are exceptions, god bless u) SF/CA YIMBY reaction to every proposal that isn't suggested by someone in their membership rolls. hell they concern trolled the People's Policy Project for a solid month
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Replying to @uhshanti @kimmaicutler and
"it'll never happen. don't you know NIMBYs? costs are too high. what do you think of 827? oh, you're not in CA? you don't know CA. but let me ask you what you think of 827 again. it'll never happen. you know you have to upzone. what do you think of 827"
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Replying to @uhshanti @kimmaicutler and
meanwhile nearly every metropolis on the planet where capital is spurring rapid urbanization and massive inequality is experiencing a shortage of AFFORDABLE housing and I'm supposed to not ask for full repeal of Costa-Hawkins? nah
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Replying to @uhshanti @peternocturnal and
What about figuring out the best version of rent control that protects tenants and doesn’t crush production for future generations of Californians? In Vancouver, RC applies to most everything, including new units, so developers stopped building rents and went wholly to condos.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @uhshanti and
They still obviously have a massive affordability crisis too. They have a little of what tenants movements want (universal rent control) and a little of what YIMBYs want (double the unit production) but they’re still screwed.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @peternocturnal and
how does this not scream "hostage situation to investment capital that requires an alternate mode of production and allocation and pricing"
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All the Americans, including me, think they should just raise their property taxes.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @peternocturnal and
gurl why does every discussion we have eventually lead to me having to say, yet again, that I want to raise property taxes I think about a year ago I invited you to swear a blood oath at the top of Mount Tam to seal our bond forever, yet like Sisyphus, I am bound to hell
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Replying to @uhshanti @kimmaicutler and
I just volunteered for the last time for a candidate who was attacked in SF by her "pro-housing" opponent for wanting to raise property taxes on homeowners to fund $1B in subsidies I am over this
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