But if it is a meaningless sentiment that is backed by no real actual policy and in effect continues to support his existing constituents’ assets going up in value by $100K a year (or 1-2 teachers salaries per year), OK.
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Sure, it *seems* like Khanna is merely embracing the status quo. But can't you read between the lines, and see that he's secretly planning a covert repeal of Prop 13, followed by state requisition of all private property?
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I'd be more sympathetic to your critiques of congresspeople in California not having the chutzpah to take on NIMBYism in their own backyards if you didn't immediately wield it to shove everyone into a box as either a YIMBY or a NIMBY because heaven forbid an alternative may exist
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I mean, if it walks like a duck...
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Replying to @bufordsharkley @uhshanti and
I readily concede that there are more self-serving and venal rationales for resisting growth, and more charitable and humane rationales for resisting growth. But a crucial question is at the heart of it: should cities ever get bigger?
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yes! and they should be planned in ways that DON'T exacerbate existing disastrous systems of privilege in residency, affordability, employability, and political power
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Replying to @uhshanti @bufordsharkley and
if you're going to focus on housing a ton of companies first that don't hire people of color because of internal bias and external systems of privilege in order to expand your city's tax base you are exacerbating the problem
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Replying to @uhshanti @bufordsharkley and
if you're going to treat the housing needs of the majority of Americans who don't have $1K in the bank as secondary, when PoC about to be the majority of the working class and are trending to 0 net wealth, you are exacerbating the problem
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Replying to @uhshanti @bufordsharkley and
if you aren't using all the tools you have to extract value from our financialized, securitized, globally leveraged, predatory real estate industry to change a status quo in which all we hope for is slightly larger inclusionary lotteries w/ 827, you're exacerbating the problem
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Replying to @uhshanti @bufordsharkley and
if you wrote a bill that affects literally millions of low-income tenants and then got mad when the groups that are with/for/*by* them object because you ***didn't bother asking them what housing and investment their communities needed*** you're exacerbating the problem
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I don’t necessarily think that Scott’s strategy in just launching the most pure form of the idea w/out amendments was the wisest, but I think the dialogue you are referring to is what is unfolding right now, live.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @uhshanti and
You are correct. When the dust settles, social justice groups still sticking with their slow growth NIMBY dance partners will be in a terrible bind. It's a ticket to the land of irrelevancy. If the crisis wasn't this bad it would be survivable. But it is, so it's not.
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Replying to @zack @kimmaicutler and
congratulations you could not have written a more tone-deaf and obtuse answer
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