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If you ask me, “Where’s Oakland?” I’ll tell you it’s in my heart.

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DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 14h

Wages went up countywide while rents at this building stayed flat….therefore it has become relatively more affordable over time. TCAC rent limits are what I was using as a reference: www.treasurer.ca.gov/ctcac/2025/s...

2025 Income and Rent Limits - CTCAC

Supplemental Information Including Qualified Census Tract (QCT) Information and Income Limits

www.treasurer.ca.gov

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 17h

LaRussell is special. Look at this community.

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 18h

I remember 3 or 4 years ago the rents were about the same in nominal terms, which translated to about 70% of AMI at the time.

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 1d

Every so often I look up the rents for the Nook on Valdez, a micro-unit project in downtown Oakland built about 10 years ago. They are currently renting units affordable to people at 45% of AMI. This is a market-rate project that pays property taxes.

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 1d

Every so often I look up the rents for the Nook on Valdez, a micro-unit project in downtown Oakland built about 10 years ago. They are currently renting units affordable to people at 45% of AMI. This is a market-rate project that pays property taxes.

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 1d

I noped out when I got to the paragraph about the history of the acre.

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 1d

That was fast—since SB79 was signed this morning, these buildings have gone up in my neighborhood.

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 2d

🍾🥂

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 2d

This post inspired by a 2020 interview with Styles P of the Lox.

Rapper Styles P is a Trump Supporter and Explains Why in Viral Video Calling Out Black Lives Matter

www.jordanthrilla.com

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 2d

It seems like a certain segment of Black people, especially Black men, drifted from the Democratic party because BLM and the BLM Global Network became seen as a scammy, ineffective movement/organization. Folks became disillusioned and no Dems called it out as a failure.

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, the thread goes on to say it’s in the Confluence. 50M mass timber with a spiral single stair, sounds pretty cool!

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 2d

If ever a post needed alt text, it‘s this one.

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 2d

If you ever go missing, I’ll know where to find your body (the basement at Novogradac).

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 2d

As someone still fairly new to housing policy at the time, I wasn’t able to sniff out the bullshit. Need to go back and be more judgmental.

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 2d

Lady next to me on the trolley playing Keyshia Cole “When I See You” from her phone and singing all the ad libs by heart, makes me shed a thug tear.

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 2d

@elpaavo.bsky.social did you visit this one?

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 2d

You should do a retrospective review of some older reports, like Causa Justa’s ”Development Without Displacement” and Margaretta Lin’s Housing Equity Road Map.

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 3d

Good comment.

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 3d

Jay-Z - Come & Get Me

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DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 5d

Lol just meant posting them as posts within Bluesky, instead of linking to a 3rd party website. But I understand it’s a hassle.

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Chris Elmendorf @cselmendorf.bsky.social · 6d

Cross-posting at @volts.wtf's request, threadreaderapp.com/thread/19748...

Thread by @CSElmendorf on Thread Reader App

@CSElmendorf: I wrote a long 🧵 yesterday on my puzzlement about the chatter that @GavinNewsom or his advisors might think it'd be politically prudent to veto SB 79. Today I'll explain why I don't thin...

threadreaderapp.com

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 6d

Appreciate the cross-post…loading them as native skeets would be even better!

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 6d

Took my kid to the playground and it’s a multiracial, interreligious tapestry of joy and laughter. The kind of chilling vision that keeps Stephen Miller awake at night.

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 6d

So if they nuke the filibuster and R’s pass a party-line budget with no concessions, what are we looking at? No HOME, no CDBG, x% cut from Section 8?

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 7d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 8d

Maybe you could figure out a way to supercharge tax exempt bond financing for 20% affordable 4% tax credit deals…