My goal is to make clear that these people haven't thought through the policies they advocate to people on the fence. Tell me how to be more gentle when they are opposed to anything that makes more market rate housing.
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Replying to @WatsonLadd @Tom_Hirschfeld and
This is not a good goal. And you're alienating fence sitters by being hostile. I'm probably guilty of that sometimes myself.
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Replying to @NeverSassyLaura @Tom_Hirschfeld and
The DSA will never admit that regulations are the problem because of ideology. So instead we have to get members to break from them
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Replying to @WatsonLadd @Tom_Hirschfeld and
It seems like you're not accomplishing that goal. You're perhaps encouraging people to hate you and reject everything you stand for.
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Replying to @NeverSassyLaura @Tom_Hirschfeld and
And how is being nice to them working out for you in convincing them to abandon an ideology that says only government can provide housing?
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Replying to @WatsonLadd @NeverSassyLaura and
the government is present in all housing provision in this country in one way or another... whether that's direct construction, or enabling the financing mechanisms that make mortgages possible.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @NeverSassyLaura and
I think it's fair to describe "we want public housing to be the only form of housing" as deepening government involvement, and "zoning regulations are the problem" as saying a particular form of government involvement is the problem
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Replying to @WatsonLadd @NeverSassyLaura and
Antagonizing people really never wins them over, tbh. It can activate other unaffiliated people to your cause though. But I think that tactic should be used carefully.
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I think I would just ask questions of people and point out that it's hard for a city to unilaterally do large-scale public housing w/out federal support when there's open domestic migration throughout the country.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @WatsonLadd and
Like HK (50% public housing) and Singapore (80% public housing) control their own borders.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @WatsonLadd and
London is 800K social housing units out of 4M, but they are co-located with the national capital and it's actually comparatively easy for the city to coordinate local policy w/ federal policy on these issues. At least compared with us.
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