imo american housing policy people can't see the forest for the trees. everyone's focused on which projects can pass their own city council rather than trying to change the national debate and make housing a major progressive priority instead of an afterthought
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Replying to @ebarcuzzi @BenRossTransit and
this is the most annoying meme because it's applied to like, national progressives winning an election. i hate to break it to you but most people consider bernie's "political revolution" to be somewhat metaphorical
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Replying to @peterjgowan @BenRossTransit and
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 @daguilarcanabal @DanielKayHertz and
a lot of my focus is on a national level and yimbys wouldn't get into fights with me so much if they didn't keep insisting that i comment on how cupertino should manage its housing projects and getting outraged when i don't jump to endorse local agendas i know little about
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The local folks are using your ideas in a way that exacerbate the current problems. Every year we fail to do a basic thing like build more housing at no additional cost to taxpayers, the existing single family home stock, gets $300,000 less affordable.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @peterjgowan and
I agree that we need more affordable housing funding, which is why we supported SB2 and SB3, but even if we built. But the current median incomes do *not* pay for current construction and land costs in SF. There’s still a $300K finance gap *per unit* to create a unit that
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @peterjgowan and
That a median household earning $80-90K in SF is spending no more than 30% of their income on.
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