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 …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
That framing seems a little facile to apply to all these races. The clearest policy difference between Buffy Wicks and Jovanka Beckles was that Wicks opposed Prop 10 / Costa-Hawkins repeal.
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Replying to @bedwardstiek
I think the proposed version of CH repeal, as financed by the Measure S donor who arbitrages Medicaid reimbursements, is not exactly the right litmus test. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_S https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/magazine/the-ceo-of-hiv.html …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @bedwardstiek
nor is it plausible to suggest that the candidate that benefitted from a great deal of landlord/realtor money is "pro-tenant" or "pro-housing" in any sense that might meaningfully promote economic justice.
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and, i know you've been told this before, but the demand to repeal Costa-Hawkins is one that has been fought for by the entire tenant movement, and ACCE is the one getting firebombed, so you can't dismiss it as a problem of one shady Jew.
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Replying to @natogreen @bedwardstiek
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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Replying to @kimmaicutler @bedwardstiek
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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