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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Replying to @peterjgowan @ryanlcooper and
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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Replying to @peterjgowan @kimmaicutler and
Yeah, drag those experts, what do they know.
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i think we have come to an impasse in that i don't believe recent democratic presidential administrations are just good guys in a tough environment. i think they fucked up, constantly, massively, over and over again, often out of malice.
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Yes, and sooooooo... what are states and municipalities supposed to do given this broader reality?
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