How about we try to figure out a way to accommodate California’s inevitable population growth (500K births/year + immigration - 200K deaths/year) without displacement and tenant protections that don’t inhibit creation of additional housing stock?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @uhshanti
That’s fine, but support for rent control is a condition of progress on that. Repealing Costa-Hawkins is the key to the temple of any possible coalition. Those teenagers should just admit they’re afraid of their donors.
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Replying to @natogreen @uhshanti
I have heard multiple legislators include Jane, Scott and David literally say out loud in front of me that they were interested in expanding RC with a rolling date, but that was never an option at the state level bc your funder wanted something else. So if it passes, there’s a
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A situation where some communities will do that but others may do stuff that really inhibits new housing creation, exacerbating rental access in the medium-term
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @natogreen
for one, please name a time where rent control has applied to new construction pre-Costa Hawkins
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Replying to @uhshanti @natogreen
Some communities could decide to do that post repeal. Was just in Vancouver last week where RC also applies to new construction. The city basically builds condos, not purpose-built rentals anymore.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @natogreen
"we need this law so people don't go hog wild when they didn't go hog wild before it?" Ok
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Replying to @uhshanti @natogreen
Have you not seen how hog wild and all over the place housing policies are in general all around the state?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @natogreen
this is an incredibly flimsy rebuttal not to mention blaming tenants for going hog wild like NIMBYs and landlords again requires willful ignorance of power dynamics and the struggle of those who are facing homelessness. I can't be kind about this.
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Even Moody's Analytics has conceded that rent control may be necessary for immediate relief -- you're arguing to the right of them, the entire BoS, and the tenant movement in whole. Own it
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Ok this is just reinforcing my point. We are arguing about virtue signaling about who is more left when I was just asking to have a conversation about the best policies for rent control w/out inhibiting new housing and building w/out displacement.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @natogreen
it's not virtue signaling. you are asking an entire movement to compromise with you on one of their core goals. you have to bring more to the table than hypotheticals that are not rooted in organizing experience or real world power dynamics.
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and you're using an argument that can be extended to ANYTHING that threatens real estate. the CAA has claimed basic eviction protections like just-cause inhibits housing starts. where will y'all stand then?
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