Downtown, Lake Merritt Station, Broadway Valdez, West Oakland, all up-zoned & are most desired areas to build in.
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Replying to @DarwinBondGraha @kimmaicutler
Lake Merritt: allows a couple towers amid general downzoning. The courthouse would be illegal today. So would Scottish Rite.
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Replying to @Maxtropolitan @kimmaicutler
Greatly upzoned the edges of the district, which is where developers want to build anyway.
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Most of the Black exodus from Oakland occurred during the Aughts, prior to the upzoning. Chauncey Bailey, before he died, chronicled it. 1/
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Replying to @RobertGammon @DarwinBondGraha and
As Bailey noted in a series of stories in the Trib, Black families left Oakland in large numbers before the Great Recession. 2/
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Replying to @RobertGammon @DarwinBondGraha and
Many cashed in, selling their homes before the foreclosure crisis, while many others lost their homes during the crisis. 3/
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Replying to @RobertGammon @DarwinBondGraha and
Oakland upzoning had nothing to do with why 35,000 or so African Americans left between 2000 and 2010. End/ http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/Oakland.htm …
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Exact-amundo. Zoning is a small part of the larger racial inequality/space/gentrification story.
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I obviously don't agree with you there. Exclusionary zoning kept large numbers of people of color out of certain areas of Oakland. 1/
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Replying to @RobertGammon @DarwinBondGraha and
And it's now keeping out newcomers, who in turn, are outbidding people of color for existing housing stock, causing gentrification. 2/
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If you want to save EBay's diversity, the West Bay must build plus Prop 13 must be reformed to take a % at sale of cap gains on RE to send
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @RobertGammon and
To a fund for new and preserved low-income housing, legal defense.
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