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
I'm the tall "Clintonite" on the left with the not-so-great-against-tear-gas surgical mask holding the flag up really high!
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Replying to @uhshanti @BenRossTransit and
I want social housing which is why I'm Hillary Clinton
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Replying to @uhshanti @BenRossTransit and
anyway, love u all on this thread but I'm getting real tired of YIMBYs saying "we support social housing" "but how will you do it" when orgs they absolutely despise in SF are at least pushing proposals. either say it can't be done or support it! do or do not. there is no try
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I don't... see any proposals. But OK! There's some $1 billion bond that a mayoral candidate has talked about but it hasn't showed up in any concrete form yet.
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