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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Replying to @kimmaicutler @zack and
Unfortunately, a lot of our conversations are irrelevant to the larger politics of California. Cross the border into San Mateo or Marin County and you’ll hear substantially different language around property rights and tenants rights. In conservative pts of the state, LOL.
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There’s a reason Nunes has no viable Democratic competitor despite his unflailing support of Trump. Or why a Fresno based Democratic legislator created Costa Hawkins. SF is not that important in Sacramento.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @uhshanti and
I generally agree (especially that Sacramento legislators vote against Bay Area interest for sport), but have a couple additions: 1) SF is an important city and politics if you care about economic opportunity in CA (and US). It matters who has power in the city.
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Replying to @zack @kimmaicutler and
2) Getting 827 done will likely come down to the YIMBY coalition getting social justice groups in LA on board. Their politics echo SF (same-same, but different). YIMBY will not be successful until we can build a broad coalition that includes these groups.
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