They've insisted all along that they're not really fronting for the real estate lobby and genuinely care about displacement protections and in their heart of hearts want to be in alliance with the tenants rights orgs, but when the choice is actually before them, they quailed.
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Replying to @natogreen @kimmaicutler and
It doesn't really matter how they justify it to themselves. They want to be a single-issue group that exists only as boosters for tall buildings--fine. We can all proceed accordingly and not maintain this fantasy that they care about economic or racial justice at all.
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Replying to @natogreen @jrivanob and
Again this statement just reinforces my original question.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @jrivanob and
my personal opinion is that it's not hard to figure out what a compromise rent control policy should be, but the CAA and realtors are not going to negotiate until they're beaten and afraid of losing even more. I advocate all hands on deck for Prop 10 & the coming Prop 13 reforms.
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Replying to @natogreen @kimmaicutler and
I know what's on the table is not outright repeal of Prop 13, which you'd prefer, but stopping the expansion of Prop 13 and passing the partial repeal in 2020 are our best hopes in years. Attacking Costa-Hawkins and Prop 13 change the politics of the state in deeper ways
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Replying to @natogreen @kimmaicutler and
than YIMBYs creepy fixation on Aaron Peskin (and Calvin Welch, and Tim Redmond) ever will.
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Replying to @natogreen @kimmaicutler and
To be clear, repeal of Costa-Hawkins is a movement demand. Pegging it to one donor is disingenuous.
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Replying to @uhshanti @natogreen and
We are shifting the Overton window back to where it was during my lifetime. There is nothing particularly radical about Prop 10, and its opposition is fundamentally weaponizing the same "don't scare the poor market" arguments we hear against *every* tenant protection.
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Replying to @uhshanti @kimmaicutler and
I think it is either politically stupid and shortsighted that the YIMBYs are whiffing on this, or its their tortured way of admitting that they are what we always thought, and we'll have to wait for defectors like those here to join an actual progressive coalition.
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Replying to @natogreen @uhshanti and
I think winning on Costa-Hawkins would diffuse a lot of progressive reluctance to prioritize fighting for new higher-density development in existing low density areas, because it would mean, in time, creating new rent-controlled housing.
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agree that creating an expanding, and not forever restricted, rent controlled stock would make tenant orgs less hesitant about new housing.
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