Overheard a guy say he was “from a small mountain town” that “rapidly gentrified in the last 10 years”
Later in the conversation it was revealed he was referring to Boulder, Colorado.
Whoever had the bright idea to ban commercial shops out of residential neighborhoods may be the dumbest person who ever lived.
"I want to live far from grocery stores and restaurants"
- some horrible dumbass
I’m tired of vexillology nerds shitting on California’s flag pretending their 20th century graphic design trends are iron design laws. Some of the most iconic flags in the world break their rules. “No text” “No details”? Stfu idiot
It’s hard to describe how bougie it already was when I moved their to attend college in 2012. Seriously, gives fancy east bay suburbs a run for their money.
This whole ordeal I think really highlights the parasitic relationship many suburbs have with their urban cores.
Quality of life of people living in cities has been placed second to the convenience of suburban motorists.
If NY decides to forge ahead with their misguided congestion pricing plan, under my bill they would lose up to 50% of their federal highway funds.
That’s right, half. We are serious about protecting New Jerseyans.
1970's environmentalism melted an entire generation of brains. Just tons of older liberals who have convinced themselves that hundreds of thousands of people driving to work every day to their city is somehow more green than knocking down a couple dozen trees for new apartments.
Republican women in Florida are saying they will switch parties after Ron DeSantis signed a new law restricting alimony.
“This is a death sentence for me.”
🔗
Organizers are low level political staffers. They often hop between campaigns and party jobs (as is the nature of the career path). Party staffers have candidate preferences.
This isn't corruption, you're just bullying a stranger because you don't understand campaign work.
Fascinating insight at the end where, once the misunderstanding is cleared up, that they have permission to fish there, the guy w the go pro shakes the-guy-who-just-shot-at-him’s hand and says “I’ve owned land, I’ve owned property. I understand”
Fellas, I’m starting to think our national policy of turning regular people into real estate speculators in order to save for retirement was a bad idea.
I learned yesterday that there is a federal preemption that keeps states from banning right turns on red lights. It’s like every level of the federal government is fine tuned to put pedestrians in the meat grinder.
The real story here is that there are a ton of higher earning, college educated people who have determined the opportunity cost of cooking is too high.
But other than saying “Look, I make enough money where I can eat out for most of my meals so I’m going to do that” they lie lol
This is the logical end of the weirdo Jeffersonian, small-is-beautiful politics Stoller and others champion. The idea that small holders, rentiers, mom and pop landlords, and regional business tyrants are allies against big capitalist firms is completely delusional.
Many climate activists oppose gas taxes because raising the cost of gas is regressive but support closing oil wells/ stop oil drilling which would do the same thing. It's kinda bizarre how people seem to think of production and demand as unrelated phenomena.
"100 corporations cause 71% of emissions" is an exercise in climate denial. It's an abdication of responsibility. Don't let local pols get away with saying shit like this.
Why are boomers so shitty at community. It feels like when I was a kid everyone in my grandparents generation were a part of all these clubs and social organizations and my parents and their friends just never participated in that stuff to that degree.
Remember when the Police arrested DeBlasio’s daughter at a BLM protest and then the union tweeted out her arrest record with her home address on it? And the he was completely silent on this? I think about that a lot.
I think how the NYPD treated Bill DeBlasio is one of the most insane things and like… he had to fold to them. First they turned they back on him when he spoke at a cops funeral… bc they blamed him for a random cop killer bc he’s a liberal who said police reform is needed.
Everyone wants a single family home, on a quiet street, within walking distance/ <5 minute drive of schools, restaurants, jobs, green space, entertainment, and other amenities. We know this because living in a streetcar suburb in California costs over a million dollars.
We should not let local governments turn California into a retirement community and the state should pass further interventions that roll back their powers over land use and housing development approvals. Young families need housing and we should be sure they get it.
Idk why it's so hard for people to understand that it's impossible to simultaneously make housing an investment that builds intergenerational wealth and is also affordable for renters/ first time homebuyers. It feels intuitive to me but many/most? housing advocates feel otherwise
Man it sucks that Buttigieg is going to get tapped as Transpo secretary. If only Biden have picked someone with experience. Like all those people in state DOTs and Transportation agencies who love expanding highways.
You could not build new Public housing at ~100 thousand a unit. At best 106 billion builds 250,000 units of new housing (at the very rosiest of estimates)
I think many progressives seriously underrate how expensive housing development has become.
In hindsight, an environmental movement primarily driven by, like, hikers, nature enthusiasts, and bourgeois aesthetes probably not ideal if your primary concern is reducing GHGs as opposed to protecting views, trails, beaches from getting too crowded etc
@CollieYimby
It seems like there’s an awful lot of people that want to own property purely for the license to commit violence they believe it affords them.
The smart critique of Yimby is "the market will not actually build enough units to make real housing costs fall, even with land use reform" not the hyper common "Actually housing abundance doesn't affect prices" which you hear all the time for whatever reason.
Damn what a lucky coincidence that personal property includes an appreciating asset that almost half the country doesn’t have access to and is heavily prized in growing cities!
The USSR’s greatest achievement was that it turned a country full of peasant farmers into a scientific powerhouse with high literacy rates.
The best part about socialism is it makes people go to school.
House just sold down the street for a record setting $1.1m to a young couple.
Neither realtor disclosed the 550 apartment/low income housing units going up across the 2-lane street, which will crater their property value.
Is either broker or the seller liable?
This is in NC
After reading this article, it seems that LA's coronavirus plan, as cases are surging, right before the holiday season when they know there will be yet another spike in cases...is to keep things open, wag their fingers at people and hope for the best?
Sierra Club and it’s coalition partners fighting public transit expansion and transit oriented housing development (all things we need to do to tackle our number 1 source of emissions: transportation) has personally done a lot to sour me on self described “environmentalists”.
YIMBY is going to be boring in the next 5 years after we win everything which is for the best, public transit is the harder lift and we need more people focusing on that anyway.
If I were, say, a nonprofit housing advocate. And, idk, I noticed Tucker Carlson was using my exact rhetoric. I think I would take some time to wonder why that is exactly.
Tucker Carlson comes out against "greedy developers" saying SB 9 which eliminates the ban on multifamily housing will turn California into a "slum" with "overcrowding."
The real smart critique of YIMBY remains: even with zoning, permitting, and fee reform, it will be too hard to bend the cost curve for apartments to be built at the kind of scale we need to end the shortage. This necessitates public sector intervention.
@GRomePow
The population grew by third since 1970 and the household size declined by a third. Sounds like an issue if housing production has held constant! And that’s to say nothing about housing growth in in-demand metros.
Even worse is the “Women hit a wall. Single women older than 30 are depressing” discourse seems primarily meant to explain male loneliness. Like “Look at these brainwashed single, childless women. Don’t they know they’d be happier married to a seething, right wing psycho?”
Don’t mean to sound smug, so apologies if I do. I’m a middle income Gov worker, hardly raking it in, but I don’t own a car, and I walk/ bike to work. And I honestly feel I have a better quality of life than people who make twice as much than me but live in the burbs.
This is a point I wish transit advocates made more often: everyone lugging around a 3-ton SUV might be wealth on paper, but if you want to live in a place that feels much richer, invest in ubiquitous, frequent transit and a dense, walkable public realm
Obsessions with *percentages* of affordable homes in a building and not the *total number* of affordable homes being produced is such an odd preoccupation among some housing policy professionals that I will never understand.
People don’t live in percentages!
It's cool how we spent billions on this rail network and then only allow single family homes to be built right next to it.
States on fire but god forbid we allow more people to use this train.
The selective enforcement of open container laws, whereby cops look the other way when, say, middle class Bike Party participants openly drink alcohol in public, but enforce it against the poor undermines the rule of law. The state should repeal its open container statute.
Well
@NathanJRobinson
true to form wrote a really lazy article about YIMBYism riddled with enough errors to make the segregationists at Livable California blush
My favorite part of the Bay vs LA culture war, having been born and raised in SF and having lived in LA for 4 years is that it's completely one sided, the bay has a massive chip on its shoulder and Angelenos don't think about the Bay Area at all.
This guy is joking but most lib/prog advocacy orgs do not have a coherent theory about gentrification and disinvestment.
I believe this is mostly because the way to equitably share urban growth (taxing home value growth and redistributing it) would mean taxing wealthy liberals.
If gentrification is bad, then why was white flight also bad? Wasn't white flight a noble act of anti-racist degentrification?
Just think about how much it must have reduced urban rents!
This is the like the primary Gen X mythos about cities. De-industrialization/white flight would mean there is a permanent supply of underused residential *and* commercial spaces for artists, academics, hipsters, young professionals to live in. In reality this was an aberration.
Post-reunification Berlin strikes me as the place that assumed it would always have a pool of vacant, underused buildings around and now has no idea what to do that they’ve run out
It’s entertaining how almost nobody builds condos anymore because of reforms to legal/ tax structures in the last 40 years but they’re so a part of the Gen X lore about cities every new building gets called “condos”
Resisting the urge to comment and explain that the new building going up next to the do-it-yourself skatepark in Oakland is going to be rental apartments, not condos, bc of 2002’s SB 800, which overhauled construction defect law and made condo construction financially infeasible.
Actually 100% of homes are purchased by investors. That's what "building generational wealth" means. America has forgone a welfare state and instead made everyone a real estate investor.
Nearly 1 in 4 homes for sale is purchased by an investor
Thanks to the accelerating wealth inequality resulting from Fed policy, we're fast becoming a country of landed gentry & tenant serfs
How long until the 99% is forever priced out?
(h/t
@MishGEA
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Ah yes when I think “things that are not gentrification” I think “underground music venue”
Can publications abandon this word? It’s long been meaningless.
I think at least half of the dumbest discourse about homelessness is due to the fact most people don’t know that there is a difference between shelters and housing.
I eat out too much. I make breakfast and dinner but most week days I don’t have enough leftovers for lunch, I never meal prep so I end up eating out. I’m able to do this because my income allows it, but I’d never say “Eating out is cheaper actually”
It’s not! I’m being lazy lol
You simply should rent a car the 1-2 times a year you need to haul something you can’t get delivered imo.
Somehow the vast majority of people on earth manage to get along day to day without cars as big as ours. Maybe they’re onto something.
the American people are rational for owning SUVs. Half the utility of having a car is being able to haul a bunch of shit around town when you need to. SUVs can actually do this. Like a good 70% of the situations where I curse not having a car is when I need to move large items.
JUST IN: US GDP soared to a blockbuster 4.9% in Q3. That’s the highest since the end of 2021 and a big uptick from 2.1% in Q2.
Strong consumer spending and gov’t spending drove the growth.
Bottom line: No recession in sight.
My dream is to open up a French style cafe like this in Sacramento and just make it the worst customer service experience of your life. It closes at random times. Everyone who works there is a snarky, nicotine addicted teenager, and I’m always loudly arguing w someone in front.
Easily the most tedious part of postmaterialist politics is how Harvard Educated think tank guys use the word “elites” to describe everyone including, like, lib librarians who disapprove of Republican Senators financed by tech billionaires.
I was out riding and these three 10 yr olds pull up on BMXs
Kid: “How fast can you go?”
Me: “Fast”
Kid: “you probly can’t go as fast as me”
Me: “Oh yeah?”
Kid: “You only have one gear”
Me: *looking at his single speed* “You only have one gear!”
Kid: “I have more gears in my mind”
I would, without question, rather a unionized Amazon be a major player in the consumer retail market than a thousand smaller firms that are nigh impossible to unionize or regulate.
Has anyone ever commented on the irony of left NIMBYs policies ensuring that they surround themselves 100% with wealthy yuppies, the people they hate the most?
SF progs HATE tech workers but they made damn sure those are the only people who could ever afford to move there lol
I watched a bit of this last night and I learned that the software developers for Eve Online were only able to stop speculators from hoarding factories and underproducing ships (with the intent to sell them later as the userbase grew) by administrating a Land Value Tax.
I don’t think I quite appreciated how serious middle class ennui is for many people until I got on twitter.
Between the retvrn dudes, subsistence farmers, Degrowthers this seems like a very common affliction for people.
Honestly though, before his posts about this I hadn’t really noticed that right wingers all wear the same cut jeans I got shit for wearing as a scene 13 year old.
And the smart Yimby response to this is "And this is why we need to invest in a public sector developer to build housing for middle/ working class people"
But either way, the answer is more housing development.
I’m increasingly convinced ill-trained dogs are becoming a public policy issue. It’s pretty clear that a majority of dog owners don’t bother to train them. I’d bet we are a couple of high profile incidents from people calling for reforms restricting where dogs are allowed to be.
my daughter is mortally terrified of nearly all dogs and one thing that it’s taught me is that most owners are far more bothered about persuading you their dog is safe to be around than actually ensuring it is
Trans kids, abortion, “critical race theory” and now, more explicitly, coming after things like alimony and no fault divorce.
All of it can easily be viewed through the lens of an authoritarian patriarch who is seeking to exert control over their estranged family.
Been thinking a lot about how
@Scott_Wiener
went out of his way to take stands on important but deeply divisive issues and is now the focus of half a dozen conspiracy theories from some of the most unhinged and intransigent people in our country.
I understand there are a lot more pressing issues in the world and plenty of other things should be prioritized first, but can we please end open container laws?
How did we let a bunch of suburbanist liberals get a monopoly on the American left.
Like my god, the "socialist" position on transportation is give GM billions of dollars for electric cars.