This is a BS answer on solving the housing crisis from a state senator from a place where the median home price is $1.7 million (or $300K more than SF):https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article230494269.html …
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Look at what is happening to our state. The birth rate is at its lowest in history because people my age can not afford housing and can’t afford kids:https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/1123689102099062790?s=21 …
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Federal homelessness counts out yesterday are up 20-40% all around the Bay Area from two years ago. *(Homelessness has more complex solutions but housing availability and its incidence are deeply interlinked).https://twitter.com/kimmaicutler/status/1129171469143924737?s=21 …
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This, by the way, is
@portantino's solution to California's housing crisis: a vanity license plate program to drive awareness about the issue. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/livable-city/la-ol-sb50-housing-crisis-portantino-20190517-story.html …Show this thread -
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@toniatkins had to issue a statement because she's feeling some pressure.
Keep it up. Keep calling. (See the above thread).https://twitter.com/SenToniAtkins/status/1129461273958072320 …
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Where’s
@GavinNewsom? Since we can’t get suburbs to add duplexes, I guess we’ll have to go back to letting Californians build willy-nilly in fire zones!https://www.kcra.com/amp/article/california-gavin-newson-building-in-high-wildfire/27157841 …Show this thread -
I find it hard to believe that
@toniatkins genuinely wants to solve this brutal statewide housing crisis. She also let@MarkLeno’s Ellis Act reform bill die in an Assembly committee five years ago. Thoughts and prayers everyone! http://www.tenantstogether.org/updates/tenants-together-statement-defeat-ellis-act-reform-bill …Show this thread -
Let’s keep hemorrhaging the state’s middle class as this game of cruel musical chairs, in which 500K Californians are born every year but only 80K homes are built annually, continues for another generation. It’s the Californian way! https://lao.ca.gov/laoecontax/article/detail/265 …
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We should stick with the status quo, where we patiently wait for every one of the Bay Area's 101 cities to get the "housing religion," allow *checks notes* 11 affordable housing units, eat some celebratory cake and get a nice write-up in the Chronicle.https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Wealthy-Bay-Area-suburb-gets-housing-religion-13852288.php?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headlines&utm_campaign=sfc_morningfix&sid=5bd0c4812c885e77326ad0d4&psid=UPb …
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Here’s the behind-the-scenes inside baseball of how
@toniatkins only wanted to look like she cared about housing but truly wanted to do only superficial, token work (multiple times over the past five years on both production and evictions):http://bit.ly/2LU8sCdShow this thread -
“As with SB50,
@toniatkins’ fingerprints were not on the killing of Ellis reform. But she dictated the outcome. She derailed the bill to avoid a vote that would force members to choose between siding w/ luxury homeowners’ and boosting the new housing the state desperately needs.”Show this thread -
Ahahah, of course
@portantino’s district has among the most expensive rents in California *and* issued 0 multi-family housing permits.https://twitter.com/jenny_schuetz/status/1130854200672309248?s=21 …
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We R watching U
@GavinNewsom. Whatcha gonna do?https://twitter.com/laurelrosenhall/status/1131596479787806720?s=21 …Show this thread -
Wow, this is the most Californian thing ever.https://twitter.com/SenToniAtkins/status/1133520395913519104 …
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California: where you get taxed if you build new housing and you get tax breaks if you keep old housing exactly the same.https://twitter.com/djw172/status/1133564704436047872?s=21 …
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.... and California's whole housing package basically fell apart except for a rent cap bill that sunsets in three years and isn't really enforceable because
@robbonta's parallel just cause eviction bill failed. This is just embarrassing.https://twitter.com/dillonliam/status/1134169218788683776 …Show this thread -
One bright spot is this boss lady
@NancySkinnerCA.https://twitter.com/NancySkinnerCA/status/1133808747011235840 …Show this thread -
No thanks to useless
@toniatkins and@GavinNewsom, who campaigned on fixing CA's deficit of 3.5M homes but... uh... has little to show for it. Also undermining HSR, which would've been a stepping stone to fixing mass transit in the South Bay, peninsula.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/governor-newsom-addresses-californias-housing-crisis/582892/ …Show this thread -
Oh, this is just chef's kisses:https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/government/sacramento-report-the-new-front-in-the-sb-50-battle-is-toni-atkins-wikipedia-page/ …
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Three months ago, there were more than 200 bills about housing introduced into this year's California state legislative session:https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-lawmakers-target-cities-ability-to-13662697.php …
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And we ended the spring with a shit sandwich, chronicled here by
@awalkerinLA:https://la.curbed.com/2019/5/31/18647381/california-housing-homelessness-crisis-bills …Show this thread -
CA voters aren't dumb. They know to build near transit, jobs and not to extend into land that isn't defensible to climate change. But the housing package died last month on
@gavinnewsom,@toniatkins' watch. And the gov won't rule out building in firezones.https://twitter.com/dillonliam/status/1141000502408167424 …Show this thread -
After
@portantino kills the most significant attempt to address California housing shortage, he somehow pilfers the state's budget for money to fund a tech accelerator in his district. (La Cañada Flintridge has a median $1.7M home value, or more than SF).https://twitter.com/awalkerinLA/status/1141778270897213440 …Show this thread -
Omg, what is wrong with this state?https://twitter.com/dillonliam/status/1141831505427087361?s=21 …
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We started the year with 200+ housing bills in the California state legislature, and this is all we have left. What a shame and embarrassment:https://twitter.com/dillonliam/status/1148364699957731328 …
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