Wish I could say the same for Berkeley's mayor, but as far as I can tell @JesseArreguin is as committed as ever to having me live in a shed in his mother's backyard for $2000/monthhttps://twitter.com/dillonliam/status/1127012328157794304 …
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You think I'm kidding, but this guy has consistently advocated "accessory dwelling units" — tiny houses built by homeowners in their gardens — as a means of blocking any sort of new housing that people might actually want to live in.
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Replying to @_wayneburkett @webdevMason
I agree that ADUs are important, but the local context here is that they're a convenient vanishing point for NIMBYs. 'Because we allowed ADUs the housing crisis is being worked on'. Not nearly enough it's not.
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I invite you to go live in someone's back yard if that sounds appealing to you. I'm happy for homeowners to be free to build and rent these, but there's a reason they typically end up "below market," which is that it's not the way most people want to live.
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For one thing, a homeowner who builds an extra unit for "easy" passive income often has very little idea what they're doing and what the appropriate expectations are for a tenant-landlord relationship. Their revenue stream is someone else's *home.*
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I'm not sure what your point is. I'm happy for a generous regulatory environment that permits these to be built. I think they often make for suboptimal long-term living, but I'm not about to say "don't build." They are not a replacement for high-density building. Period.
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