I hope so too but his first comments on closing the park don't make me feel hopeful 😞

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.

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.

@spoopyneetz.bsky.social

This point of view is so misguided. Do better.

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.

Grey as heck 😎😎. Excited to pay my unfair sure of property insurance because of it.

Just a heads up the link is not working.

Ahh yall sounded so good! What a fun night

I find myself doing this ooops but I also don't want to expose myself to more "news" that does not feel actionable and generally negative. Still figuring out the right balance