If you self-identify as pro-urban & anti-NIMBY, why aren't you demanding more public housing? | https://shelterforce.org/2017/11/02/time-for-trickle-up-housing/ … "The affordable housing field shouldn’t cede the 'increasing the supply of housing' and 'freeing up units through filtering' arguments to the luxury developers"
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Replying to @davidjmadden
I prefer the term pro-housing activist. I and most of the pro-housing supporters in LA support all forms of multi-family housing whether socialized or free market.
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Replying to @LA_Bike_Dad
Interesting, don't know about LA housing politics, but maybe that's a less divisive term--though with all things like this, there's always the question: pro-housing for whom? And if "everyone" is the goal, how to actually accomplish that, and who to help first?... Anyway, cheers
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Replying to @davidjmadden
Pro-housing activists get triggered by 100% affordable voices because it's a common tactic to stop all bldg because there is no mechanism to pay for affordable housing.
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Replying to @LA_Bike_Dad
That makes sense, thanks. But I'd question the idea that all calls for significant social housing are in bad faith. And it's often all too easy for luxury developers to weasel out of any requirement to build affordable housing at all (even recognising limits of that model).
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Replying to @davidjmadden @LA_Bike_Dad
In California, because of the way we structure property tax and treat real estate, many attempts are in bad faith. Example A: a Palo Alto city council member Lydia Kou (where homes are median $2.7M) calling for rent controlpic.twitter.com/1jO8E9m4Io
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Except she’s a real estate agent who also advertises selling homes for almost a half-mil over asking in historically blockbusted, black communities in neighboring East Palo Altopic.twitter.com/VP66kGKtEK
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