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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Replying to @peterjgowan @ryanlcooper and
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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Omg, someone who actually knows how the sausage is made!
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @ryanlcooper and
sausagemaker: "i couldn't have made better sausages. the sausages i made are the best ones possible. all the problems with the sausages are someone else's fault"
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