Loosening zoning and density restrictions can produce more market rate housing, making SF affordable, at least for households like these that are making over $100,000 a year https://twitter.com/uhshanti/status/1151658890355851264 …
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Replying to @mtsw
were I to get divorced (heaven forbid obvs!) no amount of filtering would save me, and those are the categories in which the city is most chronically underbuilding
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and I have the luxury of trying to go back and get a bougey job if I ran out of money (again lol) a lot of people don’t
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Neither building market rate nor BMR housing (which typically goes to <60% AMI households bc of state/federal restrictions) would produce meaningful amts of housing for middle-income households *in San Francisco* proper.
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However large amts of market rate housing would preserve middle-income access in the broader mega-region. Condos in Alameda and Contra Costa County paired with not too exorbitant a jobs-housing imbalance in SF would make a meaningful difference in middle-class access to the Bay.
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My friend, a lower-middle income Cal grad fam just got newly built market housing in Vallejo that they love. SF is pretty far gone in costs but thats not a universal price tag region-wide Most middle incomes dont get subsidized housing or even apply, its just not a thing
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Replying to @IDoTheThinking @kimmaicutler and
And local research from UC Berkeley has shown that there's a clear regional dip in housing costs with the amount of housing built. Not always at the local level and not in extreme housing-deficit cities like San Francisco.
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Replying to @IDoTheThinking @kimmaicutler and
I agree its unjust that working class' only solutions for market-housing is in the suburbs of Contra Costa, Alameda and Solano Counties. But not building market housing because the filtering in SF may not be visible, would very visibly will push those populations even further out
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attaching this to any and all handwringing about the middle classpic.twitter.com/k4qNgulcev
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Yes, I like the fatalism of those jobs are declining anyway so we shouldn’t even try on housing (without considering that it’s a feedback loop and if companies can’t hire middle income people here, they’ll open customer service centers, sales, ops in Phoenix, Tennessee, etc.)
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that’s a transparently disingenuous read of pointing out “there’s a lot of low income job growth and we need to meet that housing need”
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Replying to @uhshanti @kimmaicutler and
posts an inscrutable chart with colors representing different, overlapping time spans (??) w/ no further commentary calls a reasonable point given said chart "transparently disingenuous"
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