Older lefty NIMBYs are excited about a Republican taking on @scott_wiener, one of the only CA State legislators willing to propose sufficiently large solutions to the housing crisis. I mean, come on, at this point, why not just admit you’re conservative?https://48hills.org/2019/08/what-happens-if-wiener-gets-challenged-from-both-the-right-and-the-left/ …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @Scott_Wiener
I don’t think that’s a good faith reading of the article, which suggests QK entering could carve out some of Weiner’s support and leave the door open for a progressive third candidate. I appreciate your position but maybe argue it against real opposition rather than straw men?
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Replying to @DanRaile @Scott_Wiener
OK, well if SF wanted to build more housing, and maintain local control absent state influence, they could choose to do it all by themselves and zone 4-6 floors on the Westside, and de-concentrate pressure on lower income communities on the East side. But they haven't.
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Gotta agree with Dan on this one. Progressives are excited because it would split Wiener’s center-right base, not because a Republican would get elected. How is your reading of this progressives are really right-wing?
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From Tim's most frequently published essayists, landlord Zelda Bronstein
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Maybe I am missing something here, but what does that have to do with the piece linked and the Kopp candidacy?
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What if an entire publication's demonstrated, repeated messaging over the course of many years is keeping neighborhoods in amber without understanding the implicit costs, tradeoffs that has on the entire system....and supporting his candidacy is entirely in line with that?
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then (and I don’t agree with that characterization of 48 Hills) I’d say the publication was...editorially consistent. The cited article is not supporting Kopp, it is speculating about the potential electoral effects of his running.
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look, they all want to keep things the same. There are costs to keeping things the same, esp. bc property tax revenues (under the P13 paradigm) do not keep up w/ cost of running a city. Hence, Bay Area cities are always enabling office space to offset lack of revenue elsewhere.pic.twitter.com/2oG1gquBxq
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I don’t see how promoting new tenant protections, expanding rent control, and advocating for a massive expansion of worker-affordable housing is ‘keeping things the same’, but okay.
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Replying to @kevinmonty @kimmaicutler and
" massive expansion of worker-affordable housing" Wait whats this in reference to?
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