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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF) @d9neighbors.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks to D9 Supe @jackiefielder.bsky.social and her staff for meeting with us yesterday! We had a productive conversation about housing issues and policies in D9 and beyond, and we look forward to more conversations going forward.

D9 Neighbors for housing members and D9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder standing in a City Hall conference room.

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · Sep 12

HUGE HOUSING NEWS: The Assembly just passed our bill allowing more homes near public transportation, SB 79!

We need more housing & we need it near transit. It’ll reduce traffic congestion & carbon emissions & increase transit ridership & affordability.

Go housing! Go transit!

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Bobak Esfandiari @bobakesfandiari.com · Sep 12

More great comments, this from my friend and fellow YIMBY at @d9neighbors.bsky.social @mahdirahimi.bsky.social 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF) @d9neighbors.bsky.social · Sep 12

@mahdirahimi.bsky.social biked across town at top speed after work just to give that comment!

Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · Sep 12

Speaker 150: was at home and couldn’t bear being on the sidelines, Mahdi is in strong support of this plan, appreciates all the work that has gone into it

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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF) @d9neighbors.bsky.social · Sep 12

We love housing and we love festive shirts!

Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · Sep 11

Speaker #76: another @d9neighbors.bsky.social member (you can tell by the festive shirts) in support, if we continue to oppose housing, people will continue to be forced out of the city

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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF) @d9neighbors.bsky.social · Sep 12

Yes, add Bernal to the Family Zoning Plan please!

Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · Sep 11

Speaker #75: another speaker from Bernal Heights (they yearn to be added), talks about how many people don’t understand the depth of the housing crisis if they bought a lot time ago, how people used to just make it work, and that’s not the case for young people today

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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF) @d9neighbors.bsky.social · Sep 12

She was!

Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · Sep 11

Speaker #71: @serogers.bsky.social sorry I missed you but I’m sure you were fire like usual!

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · Sep 11

Speaker #69: Ruth Ferguson talking about the toll not building housing has had on a young person she recently talked with, about how we have argued but not taken action to actually solve our housing shortage

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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF) @d9neighbors.bsky.social · Sep 12

So proud of our members who showed up in force to support this plan at City Hall! #SFFamilyZoning Thank you @wafoli.bsky.social for live-threading the proceedings

Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · Sep 11

*cracks knuckles* we are out here at Planning to support the Family Zoning Plan. It’s the next item up. We were already counterprotested at the rally this morning, so expect a rowdy crowd and lots of comment

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Davey Kim @dvyk.bsky.social · Sep 8

Nice explainer by @d9neighbors.bsky.social !

The Law That Makes Your Planning Department Helpless to Developers

YouTube video by D9 Neighbors for Housing

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Mikey 🚎🥑🏳️‍🌈 @hiimmikey.bsky.social · Sep 9

Excellent, concise explainer about Builder’s Remedy by @d9neighbors.bsky.social ! Worth a watch AND ALSO a share to your circles.

Aside, not being a D9 resident, it’s amazing how vocal this advocacy group has been about bringing housing to Bernal. D8 could learn a thing or two from y’all! 😻

The Law That Makes Your Planning Department Helpless to Developers

YouTube video by D9 Neighbors for Housing

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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF) @d9neighbors.bsky.social · Sep 9

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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF) @d9neighbors.bsky.social · Sep 9

The program's purpose is to equip young people to advocate for federal affordable housing solutions and drive housing policy change at the federal level. Fellows receive a stipend of $1,000 and travel support to a policy forum in DC.

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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF) @d9neighbors.bsky.social · Sep 9

Cool opportunity alert for our younger members! Apply by September 18 for the Generation Housing Justice fellowship. It's a national fellowship program from the National Low Income Housing Coalition for those aged 18-24.

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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF) @d9neighbors.bsky.social · Aug 29

Our own Ruth Ferguson is in the @sfchronicle.com today with a powerful piece on why we need to rezone Bernal Heights! Read it and share it: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

NIMBYs were wrong to try to kill a 100% affordable housing site — but they’re right about one thing

OPINION: Opponents of La Maravilla, the proposed affordable housing development at 16th and Mission, note that other neighborhoods aren’t doing their part to build homes, Ruth Ferguson writes.

www.sfchronicle.com

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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF) @d9neighbors.bsky.social · Aug 29

"We cannot continue to claim we support affordable housing while ensuring it is virtually impossible to build it in our backyards."

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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF) @d9neighbors.bsky.social · Jul 28

Our ask is for Bernal to be included in the Family Zoning Plan, so Bernal can build more badly needed housing. We're excited to keep building momentum around this issue!

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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF) @d9neighbors.bsky.social · Jul 28

We had two productive meetings at City Hall last week: First with Ned Segal, the mayor's chief of housing and economic development, and second with Mace Anderson, legislative aide to supervisor Jackie Fielder.

D9 Neighbors members standing with Ned Segal in SF City Hall.

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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF) @d9neighbors.bsky.social · Jul 9

Thank you to those who hung our window signs in their establishments. We look forward to continuing to work with our neighborhood small businesses on housing issues that impact all of us.

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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF) @d9neighbors.bsky.social · Jul 9

Our members loved speaking with merchants on Cortland Avenue last weekend about the potential of rezoning Bernal Heights. Many were supportive and understand why more neighbors and more community are positive for the small neighborhood businesses we love!

A D9Neighbors for Housing member talking about rezoning with small business owners on Cortland Avenue, who have hung up a window sign in support of rezoning Bernal in their window.

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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF) @d9neighbors.bsky.social · Jun 17

Show them the map @serogers.bsky.social!!

Sarah Rogers @serogers.bsky.social · Jun 17

Don’t make me show the map

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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF) @d9neighbors.bsky.social · Jun 17

Thank you to all of our speakers! And thank you @wafoli.bsky.social for the amazing live posts that we were able to piggyback off of for this update!

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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF) @d9neighbors.bsky.social · Jun 17

Tying it all together was @bpinsf.bsky.social! He pointed out that housing supports both public services (by providing students for our schools and riders for our transit) and private businesses (by providing customers for our small businesses!)

Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · Jun 17

Comment 76: @bpinsf.bsky.social with D9 Neighbors For Housing, more housing yields more opportunity, it does so much to help businesses, schools, transit, it helps protect people it is the community benefit

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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF) @d9neighbors.bsky.social · Jun 17

As @serogers.bsky.social knows, California will lose FOUR or FIVE Congressional seats (likely to Texas & Florida) in 2030 because of our exclusionary housing practices! In a time of crumbling democracy, we should be welcoming those who share our values, not pushing them out!

Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · Jun 16

“We’ve been measuring shadows while our democracy burns” is a fire line about California process @serogers.bsky.social

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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF) @d9neighbors.bsky.social · Jun 17

Pro-California and pro-SF talk from our member @serogers.bsky.social!

Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · Jun 16

Comment 44: Sarah Rogers, with @d9neighbors.bsky.social, here with her son today, in strong support, and also thinks neighborhoods like Bernal Heights would be a great place to add more homes. California is a place people want to live, SF is, we have prevented them for 50 years due to bad practices

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