This is awesome, and I want to see more. If cities continue allow for more jobs than housing, big companies can push back and require that they be allowed to build housing as part of their major office plans.https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/1-billion-investment-bay-area-housing/ …
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I'm honestly confused how this will help. It sets the precedent that acquisition of office space is contestable because of potential conversion, likely creating NIMBY pushback against *all* construction/development.
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It's also unclear how conversion will also *happen*. What is going to cause or allow municipalities to rezone? Saying "we want to" isn't the same as "we're able to". Did I miss a detail?
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The obvious counter is to set aside cash to be a corporate single-issue advocacy org: promise election-time support for candidates who support housing-first (e.g. SB50) and, if they fail to vote for/pass it, promise triple the support for opponent in next cycle
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But saying "we intend to ask nicely to re-zone some land" in an environment where nearly all zoning reform has been argued to death? Seems at best a one-off improvement.
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Facebook failed doing similar thing in East Palo Alto and Menlo Park. They own all of this landhttps://goo.gl/maps/4MJEumC4EMbgmahN7 …
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Yeah, nothing about these strike me anything but "stuff we can announce" that have a satisfyingly large number attached. If there was an announcement about some sort of issue campaign or NGO support or legal-aid support being proposed, that might be different.
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