The housing market has failed because the policies that we have created to guide it over the past half century have failed. 9/x
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Trying to subsidize affordability for a few lottery winners has failed to create affordability for anyone but a few lottery winners. 10/x
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Turning planning from a weeks long process to a years long process has failed everyone but the planners and the lawyers. 11/x
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Turning CEQA into a NIMBY WMD and protecting sprawl inducing zoning has failed the planet. 12/x
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We are not a one size fits all market based movement, we are a results based movement that includes a variety of political views. 13/x
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Free market zoning ideas are YIMBY, sewer socialism is YIMBY, eco-futurism is YIMBY. A lot of what we want to do is probably wrong! 14/x
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But that isn’t a reason not to try something new. Bold, persistent experimentation is very YIMBY. 15/x
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What isn’t YIMBY? Letting the mistakes of the past limit our future. 16/x
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If you want us to consider that our solutions are wrong, maybe you should have done the same a long time ago. 17/x
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We see what your strategy has gotten us. Why don’t you try ours?
@YIMBYtown starts at 6 tonight. I hope to learn something there. 18/182 replies 3 retweets 36 likes
Please for the love of God, be an Orinda YIMBY.
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Do you YIMBY in Orinda for more homes near the Orinda BART station? What is even going on over there???
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