and I'm saying people in poverty know a lot more about what they need than you do.
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Replying to @uhshanti @MaxGhenis and
blaming overwhelmingly powerless poor people in the mission for high housing costs instead of millionaire single family homeowners is ridiculous
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Blocking housing development creates high housing costs no matter who you are. Rich homeowners may be more responsible but that doesn't justify other obstruction.
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Replying to @MaxGhenis @uhshanti and
sure but its like blaming the guy drowning next to you instead of blaming the guy who sunk your boat.
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There's no "instead of" here. You can look at my feed, I very regularly criticize SFH homeowners. But we need housing everywhere we can get it.
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Replying to @MaxGhenis @mtsw and
Max, whether or not you'd use the same tactics, Mission activists have won more affordable housing subsidy to the Mission (which needs it) through actions like this. Consider also why we're debating a 10-story project here and it's not even proposed in North Beach, Glen Park etc
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Replying to @graue @MaxGhenis and
(Spoiler: the reason is racism. In the zoning, in the way BART was routed, and more.) Your YIMBY avocomrades in the Mission aren't coming out pro-this project for a reason, and it's not super helpful to go out on your own ignoring that.
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I don't think it's super helpful to leave 300-unit projects unsupported. I'm proud to be a YIMBY member but don't intend on being lock-step on every decision.
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Replying to @MaxGhenis @graue and
I think a large project is going to get built there no matter what, it’s more a question of who is going to build it and for what income level. I’m not particularly worried about that site not having a very dense residential building on it.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @graue and
Delay matters too. It's already been held up five years-- five years of people needing housing and not having it. The shortage deserves urgency.
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There’s a difference between a good faith attempt to get a large amount of affordable and go big and a bad faith attempt to misuse the language of affordability to build nothing at all. Knowing the groups that are involved, I’d say this is a case of the former.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @MaxGhenis and
eternal reminder that housing justice activists would love to have a system where they didn’t have to engage in knockdown dragout wars of attrition or use CEQA appeal to get their communities’ affordability needs prioritized!
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