I feel like "nationalize real estate development companies" seems like a heavy lift and if what Ryan's proposing requires it, that's a discussion we need to have rather than handwaving past it.
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Replying to @mtsw @peterjgowan
I mean, I'm sure there are some tricky parts here but it can't be *that* hard to build a dang apartment building. New Dealers did stuff 1000 times harder than that with no experience
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Replying to @ryanlcooper @peterjgowan
i mean... maybe? I'm all for big initiatives and the idea that government can be doing more, but like, actually working out how this would happen seems extremely important, esp considering our status quo is that we can't effectively maintain the public housing we have now
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And if we're talking the acute crisis in supply-constrained high-cost metro areas, doing so is unnecessary to fixing the crisis so it feels like adding a bunch of risky extra steps unnecessarily vs like, building public housing in Detroit where the case is prob a lot stronger
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Replying to @mtsw @ryanlcooper
i think you've just picked one politically difficult solution (which requires you to team up with libertarians) and have decided to die hard for it instead of considering alternative solutions (which are more successful in an international context and are libertarian-free)
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Replying to @peterjgowan @mtsw
and anyway, the yimby political approach flopped badly in California. the main point of my article is that social housing will fly better in a deep blue state
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Ahahahahahaha. You don’t know our state. We’re only blue on the coasts.
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...where the people and large cities are?
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i think there's a really weird tendency among CA yimbys to insist that they're the real ones who support social housing but also to compulsively insist that CA is basically texas whenever someone suggests it's an important part of the strategy
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Who was pushing SB2 and SB3? Not the anti 827 crowd.
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People push for more affordable housing funding but what actually passes, a $100M and a $310M bond in the entire history of SF, or SB2 last year, is minuscule. Did you not read the @lao_ca report? Read it.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @peterjgowan and
These guys weren’t paying attention to CA housing last fall so they’re comfortable filling in the details.
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Replying to @TribTowerViews @kimmaicutler and
All of their allies on the ground in CA refused to support SB2 and SB3, funds for subsidized housing, for inscrutable tribal reasons. But they’re comfortable slagging the YIMBYs as anti or agnostic on social housing despite their organizing efforts to get those bills passed.
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