The latest installment in my infinity-part series about why SF progressives lose more than we need to: http://www.sfexaminer.com/?p=167710
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Developers have reoriented SF housing discourse to a "housing activism" against affordability supports.
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Replying to @MBridegam @otterlycynthia and
They've put across the myth that progressive support for affordable housing is "against housing".
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Replying to @MBridegam @otterlycynthia and
Hence the twisted idea that to support affordability guarantees is to ally with suburban xenophobes.
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This false narrative turns junior professionals against activists for rent-controlled & lo-inc tenants.
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Replying to @MBridegam @otterlycynthia and
the landowners, not the developers, benefit from this dynamic.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @otterlycynthia and
Not really, when you consider how many landowners prefer any new neighbors to be rich.
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Replying to @MBridegam @otterlycynthia and
landowners say they don't want newcomers to be rich but if you bought decades ago and
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refinanced all the way down as interest rates declined on a property that 5x-ed+ in value
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @MBridegam and
you might be kinda complicit in a system that demands that your new neighbors be rich in
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order to justify the value of the asset you own.
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