we have ex-YIMBYs in our chapter because they realized that something about that didn't work for them.
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Replying to @uhshanti @bufordsharkley and
and after well over a year of being denigrated as a NIMBY patsy both personally and in a group (now in online magazine debates!), I have 0 confidence that CA YIMBY will *ever* develop any real understanding of the concerns of working class POC. because they don't want to.
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Replying to @uhshanti @bufordsharkley and
better to call them patsies to white homeowners, bussed in by Peskin, myopic little people who don't know what's good for them, throw the kitchen sink. better to tell the people who want to work with them they are patsies, trust fund kids, put their parents' info on Twitter.
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Replying to @uhshanti @bufordsharkley and
this has been happening since the moment Sonja Trauss logged onto Twitter for the first time. it hasn't gotten better, and it won't.
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Replying to @uhshanti @yimbywiki and
I'm looking forward to when we can finally tally up whose grievances are worse, and determine which side has won
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Replying to @bufordsharkley @yimbywiki and
there's a difference when one of you is punching down
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Replying to @uhshanti @bufordsharkley and
I totally agree with you there. I personally don’t go to Mission meetings or anything like that. I prefer to spend my actual physical energy on burbs.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @uhshanti and
I actually agree with your general critique. The YIMBY coalition will not be successful unless it is broad-based: inclusive of old people, young people, poor people, rich people, white people, and PoC.
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Replying to @zack @kimmaicutler and
We're not yet expert at coalition building, but I do have confidence we will learn fast. A year ago YIMBY was barely a word, and this time next year YIMBY will be much bigger, and considerably wiser.
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Replying to @zack @kimmaicutler and
It took the slow growth coalition (what we now call the "Progressives" in SF) about a decade to gain power. While I'm not a fan of their policies, I commend their coalition building chops. This list of orgs is super impressive, esp given the policy at playhttps://48hills.org/2018/04/sf-supes-wiener-bill/ …
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I think she’s arguing (and I’m not speaking for her so I hope she corrects me) that the YIMBY movement is inherently flawed because it is not led by the working class and POC.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @uhshanti and
I think about this fact *A TON*. While the housing crisis has now gotten so out of control in SF that it is now affecting upper-class tech workers, where were we all when it was crushing working class communities? The only conclusions I can draw are deeply depressing.
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The response I would expect to that statement is that there has *always* been a housing crisis for low-income people. What I would add is that the last couple years have been a failure thus far at creating a large coalition to address this bc of internecine left-lefter infighting
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