Had Calvin in Grad school. Jordan and me would always argue that he was wrong 
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He did some good things like he was helpful in the creation of the neighborhood-centric non-profit housing developers. But in the end, if the city has a dysfunctional financial structure w capped property taxes and huge LT obligations, it will do things
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Like attract tech to pay for that financial gap, which in turn fuels successive real estate booms that are captured by the land owning incumbents and trigger further displacement.
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Exactly! I love him and Tim personally( both were my teachers) but it kills me that they don't see this side of it. I appreciate some of the positive things they have done for the city. We definitely need to build more housing but
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I'd love to hear more about the good things
@timredmondsf and Calvin Welch have done. Any links, or more details? To me, it's a really tragic story. Well-intentioned civic leaders take naive policies *way* too far, to the point for ruining everything they were fighting for.3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
I know I dunk on him a lot — mostly for his total ideological opposition to anything that even includes a shred of “market-rate housing” and spreading that idea through the far left of SF’s political apparatus. But it would be unfair not to acknowledge other things.
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Totally agreed. Other than their totally unworkable economic theories, I love the spirit of what they were trying to accomplish. It just didn't work.
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