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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Replying to @ryanlcooper @kimmaicutler and
I think you misjudge political forces. Taking on both developers & nimbys ensures crushing defeat. Serious left candidates invariably side with 1 or the otherhttps://www.thebaycitybeacon.com/politics/the-clintonism-of-the-left/article_34462484-b764-11e7-abc5-a33553fddc35.html …
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Replying to @BenRossTransit @ryanlcooper and
Here, by the way, is a pro-development DSA city councillor. Check out endorsements page too. She wonhttps://denisejoyforbillings.com/welcome/invest-midtown/ …
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Replying to @BenRossTransit @kimmaicutler and
note that I'm not saying do *only* social housing, I'd be willing to compromise 50/50 to get the yimbys and developers on board
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Replying to @ryanlcooper @BenRossTransit and
have you all read UK Labour's new Housing For The Many report? I think it's genuinely excellent as a model
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UK has a long history of social housing with something 20-25% of London’s housing stock being managed this way. In California, public housing stock has been transferred to community based non profits over the last few decades https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/20/how-san-francisco-turned-its-tenements-into-treasures-215391 …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @ryanlcooper and
See this is a bit slippery. Do you think social housing is impossible or do you think it's bad?
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Replying to @peterjgowan @ryanlcooper and
I think it’s good but currently impossible in the current political context of California. Reforming Prop 13, which is the great white whale of Californian politics, is probably a *prerequisite* to any kind of non-token social housing program.
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