In SF, progressive politicians are typically pro-tenant but anti-housing, particularly market-rate housing.... But on Nov. 6, East Bay voters displayed a strong preference for their own type of progressive: candidates who are both pro-tenant & pro-housing.https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/pro-tenant-and-pro-housing/Content?oid=22700236 …
do you want to actually win and expand tenant protections statewide, or do you want to propose demands that lose significantly at the ballot box but pass a purity test? Because it feels like if it there were phase-in period for new units, you could cleave real estate interests
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That attack always struck me as a real straw man, tho. Exactly zero California cities in the history of rent control have enacted rent control on new development, and exactly zero were considering when prop 10 was on the ballot.
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Do you really think that if a Costa-Hawkin reform got proposed that specifically protected new construction from rent control, the real estate lobby would suddenly step aside and adopt a neutral stance?
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The realtors killed just cause eviction protections in the state leg. They have massively outspent campaigns to have CH-limited rent control in cities across the state. They treat *any* expansion of tenant rights as an existential threat and bury us in spending and lies.
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what do you hope will be different or will work in 2020?
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