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3 years

Left: New York City in climate disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow (2004) Right: New York City in climate disaster reality, tonight (2021)

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These are illegal to build in basically every city and suburb in America. They don't work for everyone, but many, many people would jump at the chance to rent one, and legalizing them would put a huge dent in our housing/homelessness crisis.

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Would you stay in an apartment in Japan like this for $300/mo?

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9 months

Good evening, Twitter! I’m spending my Friday night in the affluent Bay Area suburb of Millbrae, where the county is presenting a plan to turn a hotel into ~100 homes for unhoused residents. It appears that the entire city is here, and they are *pissed*. 🧵

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Part of the reason I'm such a staunch advocate for massively expanding public transit coverage and frequency is that there are TONS of people on our roads right now who cannot and should not be allowed to drive a car.

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2 months

JUST IN: A 78-year-old woman has been accused of manslaughter after a horrific wrong-way crash killed three and severely injured an infant on Saturday at a bus stop in West Portal.

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Holy hell, it actually happened: California just eliminated minimum parking requirements for new housing projects within a half mile of public transit stops *statewide*! A truly incredible day for housing and climate policy in the world's 5th largest economy!

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A Berkeley homeowner who spends half his time at his second home in New Zealand used a California environmental law passed by Ronald Reagan to cut enrollment at one of the best universities in the world. This sentence is unbelievable, yet somehow entirely factually accurate.

Sara Libby

@SaraLibby

2 years

BREAKING: UC Berkeley must slash admissions by thousands after state Supreme Court sides with neighbors who sued.

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9 months

Tom, a 32 year resident who lives next door to the project says he supports it! He immediately gets booed. He asks what he, as a neighbor and resident, can do to help make this a success. Thank you, Tom!!!

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9 months

Someone just asked how giving homeless people homes will solve homeless, and reader, I screamed

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3 years

Hard truth: your homeowner parents and family members organizing to fight new apartments and keep their cities and suburbs exclusive is responsible for exorbitant housing costs, not "Zillow buying up all the homes"

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9 months

Another question: why are you taking care of the homeless instead of teachers, police, and nurses? Why are we taking care of the homeless? County Exec Callagy: *all* housing is important and needed in this county. Author’s note: that’s goddamn right

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2 years

This NIMBY ad is unintentionally very based

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7 months

In one afternoon, Gavin Newsom has vetoed bills to prohibit caste discrimination, decriminalize hallucinogens, and create a statewide social housing program. Pardon my french, but what the actual fuck is going on in the Governor's office?

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15 days

The fact that this woman is getting her license back is frankly insane. If you run over and kill someone with your car, you should, at bare-minimum, lose your license and never be allowed behind the wheel ever again.

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

15 days

The driver who struck and killed a 4-year-old girl in a S.F. intersection will avoid jail time, the DA’s Office announced. Karen Cartagena, 71, will serve two years of probation, complete 400 hours of community service and enroll in a driver safety class.

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9 months

First comment of Callagy’s tonight that I disagree with. He says none of in this room created this situation, but that we’re trying to fix it. On the contrary, the people in this room, and people like them, are the entire reason we have a crisis to begin with.

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1 year

California's housing crisis explained in one image

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2 years

From last night's piece on rents by John Oliver: a large institutional landlord tells us that they can charge such high prices because vacancy rates are super low, and people have nowhere else to go. Rents are high because there's a supply shortage, folks! Internalize this!

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TIL: Steph Curry has apparently "been following along with the housing element update" in the affluent Bay Area suburb of Atherton, and opposes rezoning to allow a single-family mansion to become 16 townhomes due to concerns of "both privacy and safety" 😭 h/t @angelaswartz

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2 years

Schrodinger's Luxury Apartment: built by greedy developers to reap massive profits, but also somehow vacant and unoccupied

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5 months

In case you haven't heard the joyous news, there's a new 17 story apartment project in Palo Alto being proposed under the builder's remedy, and it absolutely rules

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2 years

Never has this been more accurate than today

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9 months

Next audience question: “County Manager Callagy, do you care about our children? They are our future.” Again, this is the rhetoric being used to oppose housing for the homeless 🙃🙃🙃

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3 years

Maybe the single biggest fuckup of the Bay Area Left in the last 40 years was misidentifying tech workers as the cause of the housing crisis rather than the true culprits: affluent homeowners

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2 years

Former U.S. President Barack “Based” Obama on zoning and NIMBYism: “the most liberal communities in the country aren’t that liberal when it comes to affordable housing”

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NBA

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1 year

Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry ( @StephenCurry30 ) named 2022-23 #SocialJusticeChampion , receiving the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Trophy, for his work to foster equity, create access to opportunity, drive voter engagement and build community safety. $100,000 to be donated to…

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9 months

Someone else: whats the likelihood of the Homekey application being approved? Will you withdraw this Homekey application to help us? County Exec Callagy: no. Based.

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10 months

Commercial to residential conversions: expectation vs reality

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9 months

County Exec Callagy is explaining that permanent supportive housing projects like this are exempt from environmental review under state law. We love to hear it!

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8 months

A housing project in San Francisco getting *taller* and adding *more* new homes after neighbors fought the development? We absolutely love to see it!

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2 months

Why America has a housing crisis in one picture

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9 months

Next question: why are you placing a homeless shelter in Millbrae when Millbrae has no homeless problem? The question after that: how can you do this when the sheriff can't handle the homeless problem as it is? Author's note: incredible juxtaposition here

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@cafedujord

4 months

I would build 400,000 additional dwelling units right here

Joe Smith 🇨🇦

@joesmith323

4 months

@cafedujord you should get out a map of California and mark on the map where YOU would build 400,000 additional dwelling units.

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9 months

Final tweet on this: an enormous thank you to County Exec Callagy and all our extraordinary county staff who're working so hard to make this project happen. Despite incredible pressure and endless vitriol, they remain steadfast. Grateful for their service and leadership!

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1 year

San Jose, the third largest city in California and the tenth largest in the US, voted *unanimously* tonight to eliminate parking minimums citywide! This is a huge win for the city's climate + affordability goals, and an incredible Overton Window shift. Couldn't be more proud!

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3 years

Anyway, just gonna say this: next time you hear someone say the Green New Deal or the Infrastructure Package are "too expensive," tell them to fuck off. This is the alternative.

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3 years

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors used an environmental law signed by Ronald Reagan to stall a union-backed apartment project on a Nordstrom's parking lot, citing concerns about shadows and gentrification. This sentence is both entirely accurate and completely insane.

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7 months

Something has gone terribly, terribly wrong if a new 6 mile subway line with 4 stops costs $12.2 billion and takes 13 years to complete, and as a transit advocate, you have a duty ask why and demand better

Eliyahu Kamisher

@eli_kamisher

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New cost estimate for BART to SV $9.3bn->$12.2bn New completion date 2034–>2036. Big setbacks for one of the country’s largest transit projects.

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9 months

County exec Callagy: housing the homeless is the responsibility of every city and town in this county. Overwhelming boos.

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3 years

When you're California Governor Gavin Newsom facing a serious recall attempt

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9 months

Next question: how do we vote to stop this project? Author’s note: you do not

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3 years

The Bay Area has a housing crisis because people like Diane have shaped public policy here for the last 50+ years

The New York Times

@nytimes

3 years

Diane and her late husband moved to the Bay Area over 30 years ago. Since then, she has watched the area change: “It’s overcrowded now. It used to be lovely, you know — you had space, you had no traffic. Here it was absolutely a gorgeous place."

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9 months

Next commenter is very worried that the unhoused people who move in to the project might get $100,000k tech jobs, not report it, and then get very low income housing and cheat the system. Reader, once again, I am screaming (internally).

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9 months

We’re on to public comments/questions now. Someone from a nearby HOA wants to know how this will affect their property values, street safety, etc. Because of course.

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3 months

California renters right now

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3 years

I missed my 8 year anniversary with my long-distance, immunocompromised partner two weeks ago, so yeah, I'm a little salty about Governor Antoinette dining maskless at the French Laundry

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9 months

Looks like the Millbrae residents found my thread 😂 For the record: I couldn't care less about how affluent you are as long as you're not blocking new housing! And I'm not villifying anyone here -- they're taking care of that all on their own!

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9 months

Someone else asks why Millbrae is the only option for homekey projects. Author’s note: there are more than half a dozen other homekey projects throughout the county in other cities

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9 months

Next question: can’t you house homeless people in the rural areas of California instead? Why should they live here? Woof.

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3 years

What do we want? Housing for the homeless! When do we want it? After an exhaustive and yearslong community input process that caters to the concerns of businesses and homeowners! Where do we want it? Somewhere else!

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3 months

This is actually a fantastic example of why relying on "community input" is a such a terrible way to create public policy

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@truewagner

3 months

At least all my neighbors are on the same page for once...

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@michaelcoyote I'm in my early 30s now and would move into one of these in a heartbeat if they existed here

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3 months

Drivers when the state tells them that they're going to make them drive the speed limit

alex

@minajimpact

3 months

This is where liberals lose me entirely. I will become a Qanon MAGA voter before I accept this shit. I will move to Baghdad before I live in a state where the government controls the speed of my car

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9 months

Next question: what is the county doing to get rid of the homeless coming to Millbrae on BART? First:🤮🤮🤮 Second: this entire meeting is about a project to house many of those very people, and you’re screaming about it!

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3 years

A woman opposing a 100% affordable housing project in Moss Beach just claimed that new residents would be unfamiliar with wildlife and risk having their children snatched by coyotes and cougars as a reason to deny the project

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@cafedujord

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Palo Alto Councilmember: these evil developers want to tear down our single-family homes and replace them with "unaffordable" apartments! The single-family homes in question:

Lydia Kou

@lydia_kou

4 months

All over California, developers are working overtime to tear down single family homes and replace them with multi-story, multi-unit buildings – most of which are unaffordable to the people who need housing most.

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2 years

HUGE news: California Governor Gavin Newsom has officially signed #AB2097 , eliminating parking requirements for new housing projects within a half mile of public transit stops *statewide*! This is what actual leadership on housing affordability and climate policy looks like!

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Housing preferences: revealed vs stated

National Review

@NRO

3 months

Planners' preference for urban density should not supersede Americans' preferences for suburban or exurban living.

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Why young people feel like this: the housing supply crisis is wiping out economic gains. My dad turned 26 in 1980. 5 years later, he and my mom bought a house for $150k in our nice Bay Area suburb. The house is now worth $2,000,000. Completely out of reach for my generation.

Will Stancil

@whstancil

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People who turned 25 in 1980, with 12% inflation and 7% employment and a recession bearing down on them, were not automatically being lifted into easy middle-class prosperity. The youthful belief that previous generations lived in some kind of economic paradise is a false memory.

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People mobbing Supervisor Pine in the aftermath of the meeting. One woman told him he will be directly responsible when the first child gets molested by an unhoused person from this project. Unbelievably awful.

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New comment: where is the environmental impact report?! 🙃🙃🙃

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2 years

Nothing better than hearing comfortably housed suburban homeowners hoot and holler for hours on end about a new apartment complex in their high resource neighborhood only to have the city planner tell them that the project is protected by state law and can't be denied 😎

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@cafedujord

10 months

This you bro?

Mark Ruffalo

@MarkRuffalo

10 months

If you believe in keeping NYC NYC and not just a mecca of luxury apartment buildings, please sign our petition and chip in. A little goes a long way.

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3 years

In the last 48 hours, CA Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation to: - decriminalize jaywalking - expand access to governmental meetings by letting the public comment remotely - provide legal aid to those facing eviction What the fuck is going on in Sacramento?!

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9 months

County Executive Mike Callagy is doing yeoman's work right now, trying to explain functional zero, and how our lack of affordable housing in San Mateo County and extremely high incomes mean our area is unaffordable to most, and is pushing people into homelessness.

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2 years

Since San Francisco is apparently back on this nonsense (rejecting plans to turn parking lots into apartments) due to affordability concerns, I am once again asking: how many affordable homes does the parking lot currently provide?

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3 years

The creators of California's proposition system be like

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3 years

I'm not a fan of billionaire space tourism, but you literally opposed an apartment building on the grounds that it would impact the "unique character" of your affluent neighborhood, so maybe sit this one out?

Robert Reich

@RBReich

3 years

Who else thinks keeping people housed on Earth is more important than billionaire space tourism?

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9 months

Ah, we’ve got our first “we pay taxes!” comment. Then “how many supervisors live in cities with Homekey projects. Author’s note: pretty sure it’s at least 3?

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9 months

The crowd is rowdy and angry, booing the County Exec until he’s drowned out completely. Multiple times.

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9 months

Some background on Millbrae: it's home to SFO, and has, like many cities in San Mateo County, a very high median household income ($141k/year, specifically). Also like many other cities in San Mateo County, they've built very little housing in the last decade.

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3 years

We should, quite literally, never build or expand another freeway ever again

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2 years

As someone who's spent years railing about zoning at meetings in exclusionary suburbs, it's wild to see the Biden Administration succinctly outline its disastrous effects and call for reform at the national level. Feels like things really are changing.

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2 years

California NIMBYs have officially exited their "fuck around" era, and are now entering their "find out" era. And personally? I love that for them.

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9 months

Next question: there was a hotel conversion slated for Japantown. People protested, and it was stopped. Why can’t we do that here? Author’s note: loooooooooool

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10 months

I am simply begging supposedly left-leaning folks to attend one single community meeting about an affordable housing project in the suburbs to see how these proposals are actually received in reality

Ross Barkan

@RossBarkan

10 months

Very few would actually complain about glass box condos if the 1-BRs were renting at $1100 a month!

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Someone on the sidelines unacquainted with the finer points of how democracies work shouts: we’re starting to live under dictators!

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3 years

We should normalize referring to any bike lane that isn’t separated from cars as an unprotected bike lane

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2 years

The Inflation Reduction Act be like

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9 months

Someone says: "don't sugar coat this. It's a homeless shelter." Lots of cheering. Says he wants an "independent study" to show that Millbrae can afford this project. Again, the median household income here is $141,000/yr.

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4 years

Sure, sex is great and all, but have you ever watched a suburban city council meeting where they're forced to approve hundreds of new homes because of state housing laws?

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3 years

The conversation around new housing in San Francisco is so absolutely cursed

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3 years

Super interesting stat from a Clubhouse room on office vs remote work: Bret Taylor of Salesforce says that in June of 2020, only 23% of their ~60k employees wanted to return to offices. Now? 72%.

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Meta Moment: was just if I’m “that guy who tweets” I confirmed that I am indeed “that guy”

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2 years

Just a totally normal discussion about housing, bike lanes, and gentrification on twitter dot com

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3 years

@CortesSteve So much for "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free," eh Steve?

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9 months

It’s gonna be hard to live tweet, because there’s no wifi and my cell service is pretty bad. Also, I’m in an overflow area where it’s hard to hear. But I’ll do my best!

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2 years

Unironically yes! 3 to 5 million people living in apartment towers across San Francisco, as they do in many places all over the world, would be both good and desirable.

Christopher D. Cook

@chrsdcook

2 years

@NeverSassyLaura You want an SF of 3-5 million people, just a bunch of worker units crammed into massive towers everywhere? We need a balance and limits. Yes, city population will keep growing, and we need more affordable housing, no question. But endless MORE will eventually erase this place.

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2 years

Some thoughts on vacant housing discourse

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9 months

Big news: using the Builder's Remedy, a developer is proposing to build 1,000+ new homes spread over four towers in the affluent Silicon Valley suburb of Menlo Park! One of the towers would be 300ft, possibly the tallest on the peninsula. State housing law gets the goods!

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2 years

This week in housing: New Zealand vs New York vs San Francisco

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2 years

AB2097, eliminating parking minimums for new housing projects within a half mile of public transit, just passed the California assembly 41-14!

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3 years

The Duckworth Amendment would've provided money to rail agencies to make public transit accessible to people with disabilities. Voting this down is some Disney villain shit.

Craig Caplan

@CraigCaplan

3 years

Senators Manchin (D-WV) and King (I-ME) voted No with all Republicans against the Duckworth amdt.

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9 months

The same person next to me is also complaining about new market rate housing in Millbrae 🙃

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2 years

The apartment-hunting-to-housing-activist pipeline has radicalized yet another new YIMBY, and this time it’s Cardi B!

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Next question: why are we focusing on this [homeless housing] crap instead of truly affordable housing for single mothers? Implies many people are lying about their income status, wants to know how the county will verify people are actually homeless

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3 years

SB9, a bill to legalize duplexes statewide, passes the California assembly 44-16!

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9 months

Menswear Guy roasting NIMBYs in my mentions now, this thread has officially Made It

derek guy

@dieworkwear

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@drchaselarsen @cafedujord not you typing this in utah

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Someone in the audience is once again screaming about environmental impacts, and how an EIR is needed here. Callagy reminds folks that state housing law means EIRs aren't needed for projects like this. People now shouting, hollering, etc.

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A San Francisco Supervisor has a new plan to solve homelessness, and you won’t believe what it is