they always are
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telling tenant organizers what to do is the Bay Area specialty
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I'd love to read a sociological study of the Bay Area YIMBY scene. I've got a completely data-less theory that the culture is built on a solid foundation of professional-class people with little history of political work moving here for tech jobs and getting sticker shock.
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Thus: -extremely online -don't get working-class tenant / housing justice orgs -prone to assuming such orgs are dupes of elite NIMBYs rather than having their own interests, analysis, and agency (This may describe BA YIMBY Twitter more than the actual orgs).
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don't forget -constantly demanding that housing justice groups actually doing the work and having policy opinions informed by that work, adhere to their policy preferences with no hint of suspicion, before being bestowed with legitimacy
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Aren’t you both professional class people who moved here from elsewhere?
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(I’m from here btw. My mom’s family were war refugees who crowded into an Alameda 1BR a generation ago.)
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