In housing policy advocating for this sort of thing is almost always used as an excuse to maintain the status quo.
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Replying to @ebarcuzzi @BenRossTransit and
no, what happens is we write a paper with nationwide policy and strategy implications, people insist we discuss it in local context, then we engage with the local issues before returning to our point that the ultralocal strategy is failing and people are like "but first the rev"
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Replying to @peterjgowan @ebarcuzzi and
i hate to break it to you but you actually do need a nationwide housing strategy. you need people to care about the issue who aren't twitter wonks. you need national leaders to say we're going to build X many affordable houses, come what may, damn the obstacles.
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Replying to @peterjgowan @ebarcuzzi and
I return to this idea that "were going to build x houses" is a line that's not going to resonate in a lot of cities, even among ppl Dems/left should most be able to get excited about housing. What's the version of this that gets at evictions/highly localized price hikes?
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Replying to @DanielKayHertz @ebarcuzzi and
one line isn't a full housing policy. you have a wider message, but you need ambition and vision! you could pass a nationwide minimum standard for evictions, massively raise the bar for eviction in public housing, some land reform wouldn't hurt either.
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Replying to @ryanlcooper @DanielKayHertz and
absolutely! but again, it feels like there's a long-lasting almost traumatic aversion to seriously pursuing housing as a policy area above the state level. it's exclusively viewed through a spatial lens (which is valuable) and there's an instinctive resistance to class politics
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Replying to @peterjgowan @ryanlcooper and
Have you seen our federal government lately?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @ryanlcooper and
kim are you honestly asking me whether i'm aware that the republican party is in control of the federal government
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Replying to @peterjgowan @kimmaicutler and
because like, i could respond that political parties tend to develop their priorities while they're in opposition and then either implement them or fail to do so in government, but i think you already understand that's what we're trying to do and were just making a cheap shot
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The trend I’m talking about has persisted through several administrations. Less and less responsive federal governance, which means that municipalities have to carry themselves. https://www.amazon.com/Metropolitan-Revolution-Politics-Fragile-Economy/dp/0815726597/ref=nodl_ …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @ryanlcooper and
this strategy is absolutely doomed to failure, like every other "weird trick to fix our politics that doesn't involve confronting political economy" that brookings puts out. co-written by a senior HUD staffer in the Clinton and Obama white houses!!!!!
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Replying to @peterjgowan @ryanlcooper and
Omg, someone who actually knows how the sausage is made!
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