watching people unironically tweet new data about how even relatively well-off black kids have the same economic mobility as poor white kids then tweet about how we need to piss our infill potential away on predominantly white-people-expensive housing likepic.twitter.com/TPPZQEYUBR
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#SB827 boosters say they "support but let's do it later" vacancy tax rent control income-based rezones value capture race-affirmative planning Ellis reform P13 repeal Costa-Hawkins repeal Article 34 repeal public housing pension fixes land trusts financial regulation7 replies 13 retweets 40 likesShow this thread -
what do all of these things have in common? they all involve cutting into the profits of the landlord-developer-realtor coalition, which means "the bill won't pass" which is why each day I grow ever more doubtful that "later" will ever come.
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what upzoning low-income communities without any of these concurrent policies does is reward the actors already best poised to take advantage of a land rush. the fact that "the bill can't pass" without catering to those actors should tell you everything you need to know about it
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The CAR teamed up with homeowners to make public housing harder to build via Article 34. The CAR is trying to EXPAND Prop 13. The CAA tried to ABOLISH rent control via Prop 98 and gave us Costa-Hawkins. And now they're supposed to upzone us into a post-racial utopia. Cool.
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Which part do you think is easiest, if not still impossibly hard, to build statewide political consensus around? We can also do nothing and become Palo Alto. That sounds fine.
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broadly popular to mobilize around? rent control, land trusts doable via legislative negotiation in 827? value capture, income-based rezones, Ellis Act modification in rezoned areas, right of first refusal for subsidized development near transit, targeted funding from Nov bond
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827 is happening concurrently with a number of things, $4B affordable housing bond, bringing back tax increment financing from the dead to fund affordable housing. Community land trusts don’t scale once land costs reach a certain threshold. Possible in cheaper pts of CA.
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Like CLT-Ing East/South Oakland, Richmond etc now before it’s too late. Mission is like far, far gone.
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I went to a nice-ish restaurant on Intl. Blvd. near Jingletown in Oakland on Friday night.
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