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
How do you get more public housing without being pro-urban and anti-NIMBY? No, seriously.
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Replying to @DannyOleksiuk
If you're saying that opposition to public housing can be considered anti-urban in a meaningful sense, and that opposing public housing can fairly be called NIMBYism, then I totally 100% agree with you
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Replying to @davidjmadden @DannyOleksiuk
RIP to your mentions via rabid, permanently angry people who read the first tweet and not the rest of the thread.
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Replying to @mcmansionhell
I was hoping maybe people would encounter my utterly reasonable tone and think, there's someone who's tweeting in good faith and I won't attack him even though we disagree. But on the other hand: Twitter.
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Replying to @davidjmadden
Most of these people can't engage in meaningful discourse. They can only scream, because they've internalized the word yimby to be part of their core identity, effectively making every attack personal.
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Replying to @mcmansionhell @davidjmadden
People are frustrated because the position keeps being characterized as total deregulation of housing, which is not true and hasn’t been true since the beginning of YIMBYism.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @davidjmadden
I get that, but my position on housing is based on where I live and yet somehow I get dragged into these Bay Area fights. Somehow when I talk about housing everyone assumes I'm talking about the Bay Area and then they dogpile me.
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In Baltimore, our housing crisis is the opposite of yours. Lots of blight and vacancy. There are plenty of places to live, too. But TIF-funded development for yuppies comes in and displaces people. I myself was economically evicted from my old neighborhood.
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Our TIF programs were destroyed post 2008 crisis so we don’t even really have them and statewide low income housing funded dropped by 2/3s. So yeah... there’s not really a pool of $ even if we wanted.
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