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South Brooklyn DSA‏ @sbkDSA 13 Jun 2018

Replying to @neipate96 @ironicdoorbells and

We're here for the working class. People are being harassed and priced out of their homes every day. This isn't "housing v cars" this is "people v profit" hope that clears things up

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Cathasach "Antifa Bike Mayor" O'Neill‏ @cathasach4bikes 13 Jun 2018

Replying to @sbkDSA @neipate96 and

In brooklyn and all of nyc it is housing vs cars because the city requires that new housing include parking, which means cheap housing is hard to build.

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South Brooklyn DSA‏ @sbkDSA 13 Jun 2018

Replying to @cathasach4bikes @Casey4Bikes and

The cost of construction is not why housing is unaffordable c'mon bro

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Cathasach "Antifa Bike Mayor" O'Neill‏ @cathasach4bikes 14 Jun 2018

Replying to @sbkDSA @neipate96 and

No, but a lack of construction of inexpensive apartments is. You cant build inexpensive apartments in Brooklyn.

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South Brooklyn DSA‏ @sbkDSA 14 Jun 2018

Replying to @cathasach4bikes @Casey4Bikes and

Hi are you a developer? have you ever heard about gentrification?

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Cathasach "Antifa Bike Mayor" O'Neill‏ @cathasach4bikes 14 Jun 2018

Replying to @sbkDSA @neipate96 and

I'm not a developer, and I've worked against gentrification for quite a number of years. Building a lot of new cheap rentals in areas that are not at risk for gentrification is the best way to keep people from gentrifying other areas. There's more people in NYC every year and

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Cathasach "Antifa Bike Mayor" O'Neill‏ @cathasach4bikes 14 Jun 2018

Replying to @cathasach4bikes @sbkDSA and

they all need housing. Building housing is the only way to create that housing. I live in a pre-war with 50 units and no parking, it'd be illegal to build it now because of parking requirements, but if we built more like it then we would have less of a problem with gentrification

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Show Your Work‏ @showusyourwork 14 Jun 2018

Replying to @cathasach4bikes @Casey4Bikes and

Show Your Work Retweeted Show Your Work

Building housing is neither the only way to server NYC's housing needs nor a workable solution to the housing crisis. If that sounds, counterintuitive you haven't been counting the number of new housing units built per year, but I have:https://twitter.com/showusyourwork/status/998372619283058688 …

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Show Your Work @showusyourwork

Replying to @mattyglesias

So, this is a bad argument for a variety of reasons, not the least because you're quoting bad data. If you want to look at NYC (as opposed to "NY-NJ-PA" as in the FRED graph above, let's look at actual numbers from the city. Here's residential units by year built pic.twitter.com/N2awdK66LP

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Show Your Work‏ @showusyourwork 14 Jun 2018

Replying to @showusyourwork @Casey4Bikes and

We've added over 400,000 units of housing over the last 19 years (while growing the population by about a million), but homelessness and housing prices have skyrocketed. The top of the market (the least efficient mode of housing) has a glut, while affordable housing vanishes.

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Show Your Work‏ @showusyourwork 14 Jun 2018

Replying to @showusyourwork @Casey4Bikes and

If we were serious about solving the housing crisis in New York City, we could, at an absolute minimum, forbid the construction or capital upgrading of units above certain price and/or square footage and seize those which violate this ban (call it "blockbusting from on high")

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South Brooklyn DSA‏ @sbkDSA 14 Jun 2018

Replying to @showusyourwork @Casey4Bikes and

Seize the blocks! All of them...

8:42 AM - 14 Jun 2018

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1. Show Your Work‏ @showusyourwork 14 Jun 2018
  Replying to @sbkDSA @Casey4Bikes and
  
  I'm referring to "blockbusting" which, in earlier eras of city history, leveraged racism to turn middle-class neighborhoods into enclaves for working-class people of color. Realtors still came out ahead as whites rushed to sell before property values dropped even further...
  
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