20% affordable housing from hundreds of thousands of new units is by definition better than 100% affordable housing from new construction of 0 units. SB827 mandates a minimum of 20% affordable housing from the construction it would legalize. So let's support SB827.
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Replying to @johnleemk @chrsdcook and
Better for renters and massively better for the investors and speculators lining up for this gold rush.
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Replying to @coolgrey @chrsdcook and
Yeah, the people whose jobs consist of building housing will benefit from legalising the construction of more housing. As a person who needs someone to build housing I'm fine with this.
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Replying to @johnleemk @chrsdcook and
The benefits to actual construction workers are fairly limited and short-term. The benefits to investors and hedge funds and the like are massive and permit and likely to have a profound impact on the experience of "home" for many, many Californians.
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Replying to @coolgrey @chrsdcook and
Other people who experience massive and profound benefits: Californians who get homes to live in. If you want to punish investors and hedge funds, there are ways to do so that don't involve banning housing construction.
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Replying to @johnleemk @chrsdcook and
If you want to build housing, there are ways to do so that don't involve creating such windfalls for the wealthy and setting up a bad pattern of control of housing.
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Replying to @coolgrey @chrsdcook and
If such a bill allowing more housing is before the legislature I'm happy to support it. But I won't let the perfect be the enemy of the good SB827 if that's the only bill on the table. Homes for Californians are the priority.
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Replying to @johnleemk @chrsdcook and
That "perfect/good" phrase like "lesser of two evils" has too often been used as a cop-out to justify inadequate solutions - which surprisingly often continue or even exacerbate existing structures of privilege and wealth. You're letting the not good be the enemy of the better.
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Replying to @coolgrey @chrsdcook and
Upzoning the multi-million dollar neighborhoods in Beverly Hills and the Westside of SF to allow construction of medium-density affordable housing near public transit sure sounds good to me.
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Replying to @johnleemk @chrsdcook and
Sounds good to me, too. That's not what's on offer - not in form and with those parameters.
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That is what is on offer.
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