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Cupertino Mayor Steven Scharf is here to tell us that CASA will be worse than nothing. Mentions the quality of transit in international (extremely dense) cities, and asks for transit-based solutions.pic.twitter.com/IQ990OLGR9
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Next speaker, "We have an overpopulation problem... We do not have a HOUSING CRISIS...blindly support stack and pack housing…a massive destructive housing program that does not address jobs growth...stop allowing jobs until these corporations pay for.."
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"...not just support giant housing with no parking..." Unfortunately she’s being cut off just as she says that "more housing won’t help."
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Palo Alto is coming out strong arguing that they are DOING JUST FINE thank you very much, because they just approved their first Affordable Housing project in 7 years.https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/01/16/palo-alto-housing-affordable.html …
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"Shame on the secure homeowners who are saying anything other than that we have a housing crisis. ...Shame on the housing providers who are coming out against modest tenants protections...Shame on the elected officials who are from exclusionary cities and want local control."
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Cupertino also coming out to say they have permitted hundreds of affordable housing units and there is no problem.
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Now we're hearing about how tech shuttlebusses cause displacement. But also parcel taxes and vacancy taxes are very bad. Also sales tax is bad. Wants company towns. Also complaining about how long it took him to drive from Noe Valley (he did not take MUNI).
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"Local control has failed to produce the housing we need."
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Speaker tells us that homeowners who worked hard are worried that this will displace them. Unclear what mechanism in CASA would do that. Maybe because it is literally just fearmongering nonsense.
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"You are the last line of defense for cities that will have to govern once this passes." Unfortunately this is not true at all because there will be MANY more opportunities to object to any actual legislation that might come out of this.
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"We don't have enough housing, and it's a self inflicted wound. ...I don't want to live in a city that's populated by thousands of me. I'm not that interesting. Diverse cities are good."
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Threading got broke, pick up here:https://twitter.com/yimbyaction/status/1086149130408275968 …
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