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This is a politically popular approach for lawmakers because you get to look pro-affordable housing while not materially affecting the donor class and laundering NIMBY objections in a do-gooder veneer.
But it's regressive and counterproductive to the goal of broadly solving affordability issues.
But it's regressive and counterproductive to the goal of broadly solving affordability issues.
April 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This is a politically popular approach for lawmakers because you get to look pro-affordable housing while not materially affecting the donor class and laundering NIMBY objections in a do-gooder veneer.
But it's regressive and counterproductive to the goal of broadly solving affordability issues.
But it's regressive and counterproductive to the goal of broadly solving affordability issues.
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Tying affordable housing funding and mandates specifically to new market-rate development is saying, in effect, we are going to tax the renters in these new buildings in order to pay for housing subsidies for, in many cases, slightly poorer or simply luckier (won a housing lottery) renters.
April 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Tying affordable housing funding and mandates specifically to new market-rate development is saying, in effect, we are going to tax the renters in these new buildings in order to pay for housing subsidies for, in many cases, slightly poorer or simply luckier (won a housing lottery) renters.
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California needs a lot more housing & we should prioritize housing near high-quality transit.
I’m authoring legislation to do just that. SB 79 authorizes denser housing by our highest quality transit. It’ll help transit systems succeed, reduce carbon emissions & create more sustainable communities.
I’m authoring legislation to do just that. SB 79 authorizes denser housing by our highest quality transit. It’ll help transit systems succeed, reduce carbon emissions & create more sustainable communities.
Senate Bill 79 will legalize more housing near transit across California
It’s time to end this practice of banning new homes in areas where we are making massive public transit investments.
www.dailynews.com
April 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
California needs a lot more housing & we should prioritize housing near high-quality transit.
I’m authoring legislation to do just that. SB 79 authorizes denser housing by our highest quality transit. It’ll help transit systems succeed, reduce carbon emissions & create more sustainable communities.
I’m authoring legislation to do just that. SB 79 authorizes denser housing by our highest quality transit. It’ll help transit systems succeed, reduce carbon emissions & create more sustainable communities.
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California needs to show we can deliver lower costs for people. That means simplifying the overgrown layers of government process making it hard to build things.
I’m authoring legislation as part of @buffywicks.bsky.social permitting reform package to do just that, including by simplifying CEQA. 🧵
I’m authoring legislation as part of @buffywicks.bsky.social permitting reform package to do just that, including by simplifying CEQA. 🧵
March 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
California needs to show we can deliver lower costs for people. That means simplifying the overgrown layers of government process making it hard to build things.
I’m authoring legislation as part of @buffywicks.bsky.social permitting reform package to do just that, including by simplifying CEQA. 🧵
I’m authoring legislation as part of @buffywicks.bsky.social permitting reform package to do just that, including by simplifying CEQA. 🧵
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Land use does not prevent gentrification, it causes it. It causes housing prices to soar due to scarcity. It is weaponized to prevent social and supportive housing from being built. It is weaponized to keep poor people concentred and away from the rich.
March 14, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Land use does not prevent gentrification, it causes it. It causes housing prices to soar due to scarcity. It is weaponized to prevent social and supportive housing from being built. It is weaponized to keep poor people concentred and away from the rich.
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I skipped last night’s State of the Union address in favor of President Eisenhower’s.
March 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I skipped last night’s State of the Union address in favor of President Eisenhower’s.
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Cost of living is a problem throughout the country, but it’s off the charts in California. Why? Because of our obscenely high housing costs, driven by a massive housing shortage.
We make it way, way too hard to build new homes & that needs to change. 🧵
We make it way, way too hard to build new homes & that needs to change. 🧵
March 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Cost of living is a problem throughout the country, but it’s off the charts in California. Why? Because of our obscenely high housing costs, driven by a massive housing shortage.
We make it way, way too hard to build new homes & that needs to change. 🧵
We make it way, way too hard to build new homes & that needs to change. 🧵
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🧵 ALERT: Sorry for the late notice - we're about to join the SF Board of Supervisors meeting to hear about the mayor's attempt to oust a police commissioner, a proposal to lower fees on projects that convert downtown offices into housing, and more. Join us!
February 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
🧵 ALERT: Sorry for the late notice - we're about to join the SF Board of Supervisors meeting to hear about the mayor's attempt to oust a police commissioner, a proposal to lower fees on projects that convert downtown offices into housing, and more. Join us!
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This post from @parkingreform.org gets my vote for best Shoup/parking meme... reply with your favorites.
February 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This post from @parkingreform.org gets my vote for best Shoup/parking meme... reply with your favorites.
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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
February 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
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If you want to understand how California’s NIMBYism squandered one of the greatest economic opportunities in nearly a century, consider that over the last 15 years, Silicon Valley’s GDP nearly tripled, yet it approved less housing than Austin, Texas has in just four years.
February 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
If you want to understand how California’s NIMBYism squandered one of the greatest economic opportunities in nearly a century, consider that over the last 15 years, Silicon Valley’s GDP nearly tripled, yet it approved less housing than Austin, Texas has in just four years.
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Housing Supply Works. Debunking the NIMBY handwaiving about new apartments being expensive.
ronpdavis.substack.com/p/housing-su...
ronpdavis.substack.com/p/housing-su...
Housing Supply Works: Rally Today
Here is my testimony.
ronpdavis.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Housing Supply Works. Debunking the NIMBY handwaiving about new apartments being expensive.
ronpdavis.substack.com/p/housing-su...
ronpdavis.substack.com/p/housing-su...
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If someone proposed building poorly-constructed buildings with code violations all over as a strategy for housing poorer folks, they'd be rightly criticized.
Yet many folks base anti-poverty strategies on preserving just this kind of housing for poorer folks.
Yet many folks base anti-poverty strategies on preserving just this kind of housing for poorer folks.
You can preserve Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing (NOAH) if you want, but it is affordable because it most likely doesn’t meet today’s energy, life safety or acoustic code.
Let’s not sing paeans to drafty, creaky, leaky, thin-walled apartments of yore as our affordable housing policy, eh?
Let’s not sing paeans to drafty, creaky, leaky, thin-walled apartments of yore as our affordable housing policy, eh?
February 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
If someone proposed building poorly-constructed buildings with code violations all over as a strategy for housing poorer folks, they'd be rightly criticized.
Yet many folks base anti-poverty strategies on preserving just this kind of housing for poorer folks.
Yet many folks base anti-poverty strategies on preserving just this kind of housing for poorer folks.
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This is awesome. From a custom knife forging shop in Edom, Texas.
January 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This is awesome. From a custom knife forging shop in Edom, Texas.
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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We can't do this for four years. It has only been nine days. For the sake of all of us, even the morons who put them in office, the current administration has to go.
January 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We can't do this for four years. It has only been nine days. For the sake of all of us, even the morons who put them in office, the current administration has to go.
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I think the Dem base’s anger at elected Dems for their bizarre, paralyzed accommodationism is building much faster than anyone realizes. Pressure rising, explosion may be imminent
January 27, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I think the Dem base’s anger at elected Dems for their bizarre, paralyzed accommodationism is building much faster than anyone realizes. Pressure rising, explosion may be imminent
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I've spent a decade now saying it: the social units progressives want to build and the market units developers want to build are both excluded by the same laws. If you want either - or as I do, both - you're going to need legal places to build them, no matter where the $ comes from.
January 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I've spent a decade now saying it: the social units progressives want to build and the market units developers want to build are both excluded by the same laws. If you want either - or as I do, both - you're going to need legal places to build them, no matter where the $ comes from.
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They could do so many *good* things instead, to help people whose houses were destroyed.
*Let people build and live in ADUs before main houses, so fire victims can get housed sooner.
* In non-very-high-fire-severity areas, streamline SB 9 lot splits to help people pay for rebuilding their houses.
*Let people build and live in ADUs before main houses, so fire victims can get housed sooner.
* In non-very-high-fire-severity areas, streamline SB 9 lot splits to help people pay for rebuilding their houses.
January 27, 2025 at 6:05 AM
They could do so many *good* things instead, to help people whose houses were destroyed.
*Let people build and live in ADUs before main houses, so fire victims can get housed sooner.
* In non-very-high-fire-severity areas, streamline SB 9 lot splits to help people pay for rebuilding their houses.
*Let people build and live in ADUs before main houses, so fire victims can get housed sooner.
* In non-very-high-fire-severity areas, streamline SB 9 lot splits to help people pay for rebuilding their houses.
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Deepseek this deepseek that. How about you seek legalizing deeply affordable housing in your neighborhood
January 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Deepseek this deepseek that. How about you seek legalizing deeply affordable housing in your neighborhood
@riptide27.bsky.social Yooo good to see you here riptide 😎😎
January 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
@riptide27.bsky.social Yooo good to see you here riptide 😎😎
January 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.