That’s one way to solve it. There are others with less adverse impact.
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Replying to @rihallix @issiromem
When you figure out how to amend the California constitution to make it less structurally reliant on high growth and high wealth inequality industries, please get back to us. But for the time being, the general fund is 70% dependent on personal income & capital gains tax, thus
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the Bay Area/Silicon Valley essentially funds a significant part if not close to half of the CA govt every year.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @issiromem
Sounds like sb827 doesn’t need to be a statewide law then.
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Replying to @rihallix @issiromem
Ask yourself why Marin has mysteriously managed to constrain its population to roughly 200K people over the past several decades while Alameda, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, Contra Costa counties, etc have had to grow and also are more racially, socioeconomically diverse
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @issiromem
That’s an easy one - I wrote this op ed addressing that precise allegationhttp://www.marinij.com/opinion/20180110/marin-voice-heroic-efforts-that-made-marin-shouldnt-be-vilified …
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I’m missing the part in that article about racial and socioeconomic diversity. Instead, your article admits the real reason: property values
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That’s an easy one too. So as a YIMBY - a wealthy largely white developer & tech billionaire funded movement - how does building lots of luxury units help change that?pic.twitter.com/2vs90FxiEF
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First off, I’m neither of those. Second, it’s clear—build luxury units, then people who can afford them move there, freeing up older houses.
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Before you tell me “this doesn’t happen”, this is *literally* what I’m doing right now. Moving out of a 100+ y/o studio to a new condo.
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I’m very happy that SF Planning allowed my new condo to be built, because now my rent controlled studio can go to someone who needs it. :)
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Did you move to SF from somewhere else?
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My move is in-town.
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