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    1. two points hundred points IT WAS A ROBBERY‏ @schlocky5000 5 Apr 2018
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      In light of the YIMBYs this week tipping their hand in attempting to no-platform tenants of color at risk of displacement due to SB827, I recommend the @antievictionmap's excellent report, "The Racial Contours of YIMBY/NIMBY Bay Area Gentrification" https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4sw2g485 …

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    2. two points hundred points IT WAS A ROBBERY‏ @schlocky5000 5 Apr 2018
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      It does an excellent job of explaining why instances like this week's are not aberrations but are very much in line with the racially exclusive values that underlie both YIMBY and NIMBYismpic.twitter.com/BVb2Uh7Rt6

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    3. two points hundred points IT WAS A ROBBERY‏ @schlocky5000 5 Apr 2018
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      👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 this is the YIMBY's "Stein gave us Trump" and constitutes what feels like about 90% of the pro-827 arguments I hearpic.twitter.com/UmnNEjtIcU

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    4. two points hundred points IT WAS A ROBBERY‏ @schlocky5000 5 Apr 2018
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      YIMBYism's fundamental assertion is that housing of any kind will fix any housing crisis. That misunderstands the problem. We already have plenty of housing if you ignore all other classifications. That surplus becomes a deficit when you add the simple qualifier of affordability.pic.twitter.com/vddqaCuYTv

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    5. two points hundred points IT WAS A ROBBERY‏ @schlocky5000 5 Apr 2018
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      Here's @SonjaTrauss saying the quiet part out loud If a person of color is no-fault evicted, the rent quadruples and the new tenant is wealthy, white and from a different area, well, that's just something that happens. Who can say why?pic.twitter.com/Kw63H59oix

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    6. two points hundred points IT WAS A ROBBERY‏ @schlocky5000 5 Apr 2018
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      I don't have a clue how SB827 proponents argue for unregulated supply-side in light of data like this, which persists across wealthy areas statewide. Feel free to hop in the mentions and explain because it's truly a head-scratcher to mepic.twitter.com/dj29VFZAoS

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    7. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 5 Apr 2018
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      Those numbers don’t say what the paper implies (also, they come from Tim Redmond, who is a white millionaire homeowner). They only count absentee homeowners, who usually rent their units out. Not vacant units.

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    8. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 5 Apr 2018
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      To be concrete, if, say, the city of SF were to buy out one of those condo buildings and rent it out as 100% affordable public housing, then this map would consider it 100% “absentee homeowner” owned. But that wouldn’t be bad—in fact, it’d be an ideal outcome that we all want!

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    9. two points hundred points IT WAS A ROBBERY‏ @schlocky5000 5 Apr 2018
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      Why would city-owned housing in the city be considered absentee? The Forbes number comes from Marcus & Millichamp, a national development firm, which is uhh maybe not a more objective sourcepic.twitter.com/WFZd8YlhsU

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    10. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 5 Apr 2018
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      Because all Tim looked at is whether the Assessor’s Office primary address for the homeowner is the unit in question (see https://48hills.org/2014/09/investigation-new-condos-arent-owned-san-francisco-residents/#comment-1908861192 …). For *any* rental property (owned by anyone, city or otherwise) that will say “absentee”.

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      Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 5 Apr 2018
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      See the first comment for an example of a renter. It’d be interesting to see real numbers on the number of non-resident *non-rental* properties in these buildings. I’d guess the vacancy rate would be higher than SF overall but lower than e.g. Vancouver, where speculation is worse

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        2. two points hundred points IT WAS A ROBBERY‏ @schlocky5000 5 Apr 2018
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          I’d also like that data. The commenter’s argument is valid. I didn’t mean to present the data as the end all be all, just as an offhand illustration of how increasing luxury supply doesn’t increase available units in a significant way

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        3. two points hundred points IT WAS A ROBBERY‏ @schlocky5000 5 Apr 2018
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          That said, I’m not sure how transferring power from someone like the commenter to a company like Lennar helps anyone, especially when the resultant building would - by the nature of the bill - not be beholden to any singular community that it affects

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