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 @natogreen
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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Replying to @bedwardstiek @natogreen
I think it would grab a lot more support from tentpole centrist politicians in major metros in California & the governor, which would be a positive signal to voters. Developers of new housing and your single-family rental landlords are not the same entities or people as well.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @bedwardstiek
perhaps, but we'd still be outspent 3 to 1 with a bunch of lies and fearmongering.
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Having the governor, state leadership + most major mayors, probably would've been significant.
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