Habit of assuming all neighbors speak in bad faith is a good way to avoid considering the merits, as happens in a democratic process.
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Replying to @MBridegam @Noahpinion
and each project is maligned along familiar lines, with greedy developers catering to rich royalty with housing that destroys communities.
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Replying to @Sr_Lazarus @Noahpinion
That is a common developer assumption about public participation. You might be surprised.
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Also building housing for modest tastes that existing neighbors might someday,dream of moving into if they're very very lucky might help.
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Replying to @MBridegam @Noahpinion
i think we're seeking the same thing, even as we underbuilt ourselves into a housing crisis. remember we went thru this during 1st .com boom
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Replying to @Sr_Lazarus @Noahpinion
Yes, we were South of Market for the "live-work" permit loophole boom. Some good projects, some awful. A few affordable due to SoMa's QCTs.
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Replying to @MBridegam @Noahpinion
i see it as unfortunate that we didn't really ramp up housing production by any means necessary to prepare for next boompic.twitter.com/sQvlS9EH9k
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Replying to @Sr_Lazarus @Noahpinion
Putting back the SROs that Justin Herman destroyed would have been justice. Even now, some could be built above his convention center.
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City is still owed something like 5842 affordable units per the instructive SB 1404 analyses from 2014: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1404 …
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Accepting that affordable housing advocates are in favor of affordable housing might allow the SF tenant bloc to re-form.
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It's hard when it feels like there are factions in some jurisdictions of the Bay Area cynically using affordability to shut down anything.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @MBridegam and
I go to Palo Alto where there are $2-4M property owners blatantly appropriating affordable rhetoric from SF while protecting their assets.
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So, when and where is the proper place for affordable rhetoric in your view?
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