TIL @SonjaTrauss was previously a high school math teacher 
(biased but I have many fond recollections of people in the math teacher profession)
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TIL San Francisco’s District 6, one of eleven districts - comprising Mission Bay, SoMa and Treasure Island - has built 60% of the new housing in San Francisco. 
#BuildHousing @SonjaTrauss
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Ideas on ways to be heard if you support building housing: - join neighborhood associations and support/talk about building new housing - go to planning commission meetings and support new projects - write a note to the SF mayor (lower barriers here than you might imagine)
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Housing policy is unusual in that people don’t tend to aggregate along bright lines: many people are pro-housing in general but might have mixed feelings about specific projects. That’s okay (we still need to build housing and it makes a difference to support)
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TIL: the Salvation Army is the second-largest landowner in California
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OH “Boomer homeowners become more receptive to building housing when they realize that preserving the character of their (SFH) neighborhoods means their grandkids can’t live nearby & will never come visit, nor will people be available living nearby to care for them as they age”
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Stunning: 93% of California’s land that’s zoned residential, is zoned single-family. Ninety-three percent.
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If only this were realhttps://twitter.com/excitingbooks/status/638443894464606208 …
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Another fun fact, despite the building boom, the number of homeless in
#D6#SOMA has increased by 81% over the last 7 years, thanks to the great work of our supervisor@JaneKim.pic.twitter.com/xXj3Ih8prV
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And Tenderloin
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