I don’t know what other land parcels they own around campus.... they have the student gardens in North Berkeley but people are freaking out over vegetable gardens too.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @coolgrey
Seriously I’d like to bulldoze half of Berkeley to make affordable housing happen
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Replying to @iwriterealgood @kimmaicutler
Berkeley is beautiful and pleasant and bulletdozing structures is bad for the environment. We need to find ways to move forward on housing that are more constructive and creative. I believe that's possible. But possibly not if investor profits are an issue.
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Replying to @coolgrey @iwriterealgood
I just don’t think you can selectively address the investor profits issue without looking at Prop. 13, which even split roll isn’t polling well...
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Replying to @iwriterealgood @kimmaicutler
Imagine Berkeley blocks with 3-4 story cohousing surrounding shared garden and yard space... with a family owned corner grocery, a bike workshop, a music studio and a cafe on the ground story, bee hives and solar panels on the roof, lots of zucchini, tomatoes, etc in the yards.
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Replying to @coolgrey @iwriterealgood
Yes that’s awesome, but If you run the numbers on that, I bet you that’s at least $900K in production costs per unit excluding contingencies etc etc etc.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @iwriterealgood
Yes. But at the end of the day, existing ownership, costs, etc. are always going to be a problem. So... maybe we need to move past them.
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Replying to @coolgrey @iwriterealgood
But people will freak out that it’s “luxury housing” at ~1M a unit even though that’s what it costs to build. Look at these pro formas from 2015. The hypothetical west side project is 100-200K *more* per unit than the east side/D5 denser projects http://www.sf-planning.org/ftp/files/plans-and-programs/planning-for-the-city/ahbp/ahbp_seifel_AffordableHousingBonusProgram_FinalDraft.pdf …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @iwriterealgood
I know. You and I are really speaking at/to different levels. I'm trying to envision what good be without being constrained by existing political and economic constraints.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @iwriterealgood
"could be" not "good be" (
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I'm trying to think of structures- literal and figurative- that address housing needs, homelessness, climate change - even, perhaps, Nazis and incels. And of course coyotes.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
And there’s the rub. There are people out there who are concerned about the actual problems we face here. Aspirational dreams aren’t going to get anyone affordable housing, sorry. So, if you can afford to dream during the crisis, sounds like you are pretty well-housed.
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