a question for some OGs...who remembers the name of that short video where @janekim was the mayor of an SF that was affirmatively trying to bring back its displaced working class because there was no one to provide basic public services.
@SFSunnita @BrandonHarami
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Just watched the film - haunting and all the more timely now that cities are starting to test out policies such as preferential return and housing for public employees.
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Replying to @RevClown @alfred_twu and
Which is prescient when you look at what was happening in town... predatory foreclosures in black community, the early rumblings of the current wave of gentrification, the start of tech colonization, and the twilight of Gavin.
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then why did she vote for the Mid-Market tax exemption?
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She didn't just vote for it, she helped create it.
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Replying to @khuey_ @kimmaicutler and
I gotta say that’s one of the big decisions I would disagree with her on, but it’s a little hypocritical* of reflexively tech-defensive urbanists to be criticizing her for it, from a left posture they lack the other 99% of the time. *sorry, I meant enormously hypocritical
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am I criticizing the decision or pointing out some later hypocritical positioning on her part? They had the information they had at the time, which is the US economy was in its sharpest recession since potentially the 1930s, and they made a decision based on that information.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @khuey_ and
with all due respect, you’re constantly suggesting that we can’t be too demanding of for-profit developers because of pension liabilities; I think the nuance-about-incentives is a bit selective
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wow that was a simplification.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @khuey_ and
I think boiling Jane Kim’s entire legislative record down to the Twitter tax break because she did a neat video with Barry Jenkins god knows 8 years ago is an enormous oversimplification
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Replying to @uhshanti @kimmaicutler and
rethreading this and saying it more nicely: I’m to the left of every politician in SF, but things like free CCSF, free childcare, Our City Our Home, actually mean something materially significant to this city’s working class, and we all know who supported it and who didn’t. so
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