fam: if you by-right *everything*, whoever gets the land first wins. investment capital has more resources to buy up land in urban cores than the state (at present). who wins that bidding war? anyone who remembers how dense public housing was segregated already knows the answerhttps://twitter.com/sammymoss425/status/1205554944318664704 …
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ppl aren't on board (not the west side BUH MY VIEWS ppl, I mean actual grassroots groups), because many urbanists pushing hard for upzoning/by-right in SF are *deliberately noncommittal about the result*. that's a problem urbanists haven't fixed & social housing ppl are trying to
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you can't ask not-wealthy people to take an enormous gamble on remaking the built environment without promising them anything, like literal housing units they can live in, or decision-making power they've never had because they're shut out of planning deliberately
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the best way to separate NIMBY types who disingenuously coopt left arguments from the actual grassroots, is to put something like a
#homesguarantee in front of everybody and see what side people are REALLY on. I'm giving you helpful advice for free, you should take it1 reply 6 retweets 36 likesShow this thread -
nancy pelosi's endorsements guy 🌹 Retweeted Robert Fruchtman
as an aside, this is extremely Not It, Chief idk what “our side” means in this case but I am 100% not on it and no mass social housing enthusiast can be either https://twitter.com/_fruchtose/status/1205343527011373056?s=21 …https://twitter.com/_fruchtose/status/1205343527011373056 …
nancy pelosi's endorsements guy 🌹 added,
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Kim-Mai Cutler Retweeted Robert Fruchtman
It’s like he almost understands what he’s doing....https://twitter.com/_fruchtose/status/1205340338920906752 …
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Robert Fruchtman @_fruchtoseCalvin: you want to know why suburban counties don't approve housing? Residential properties don't provide enough property tax revenue. After Prop 13, cities all wanted to build commercial properties. It made it impossible for commercial/residential tax to charge differentlyShow this thread1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
Like maybe SF has to keep growing its property tax revenue base in part bc it has $10 billion of unfunded liabilities that it has to continually keep pace with or else they’ll eventually cannibalize all other city services....
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I read that tweet as a "we should repeal Prop 13 in order to charge more"? hard to parse
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My bad. Yeah, he said that Prop 13 is the reason cities can't charge commercial properties higher tax rates.
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