Ryan M @ryan_metheny
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By far most successful affordable housing strategy in history has been allowing the maximum possible amount of market-rate housing.
By far most successful affordable housing strategy in history has been allowing the maximum possible amount of market-rate housing.
people will sometimes say that arguing against left NIMBYs is a waste of time because in reality most NIMBYism is right wing, but time and time again you see people in very influential policy making positions making nonsensical “left wing” arguments against market rate housing
people will sometimes say that arguing against left NIMBYs is a waste of time because in reality most NIMBYism is right wing, but time and time again you see people in very influential policy making positions making nonsensical “left wing” arguments against market rate housing
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Forever wild to me that Los Angeles once had the best transit system in the world and we ripped it all up.
Look what happens when we prohibit cars for *one* block on a Saturday. People in LA are desperate for safe spaces to exist. LA should have dozens of car free plazas to create experiences like this. ✅ good for business ✅ fun for kids ✅ great for community connection
Not great. This lady spends all day rage posting about how much she hates new housing. Young LGBT people move to SF to find a refuge. Instead they find exorbitant housing costs due to an extreme *lack of* housing. A significant % of SF homeless are LGBT youth for a reason.
Crazy that corporate landlords in Austin just decided to become less greedy last year. We should study why this is.
So, I guess, we're just all very lucky to have people working their asses of to address climate change even though, apparently, it will go unnoticed and not sway anyone to vote for them because we're too busy being snarky on a website.
Biden Harris 2024: we won’t kill any puppies
Folks, if you live in a U.S. city with bad or no transit, it’s because a bunch of your NIMBY neighbors attend transportation committee hearings to make sure your tax money goes to parking lots and road widening. It’s not a nefarious oil industry plot.
The community garden discourse is largely driven by people who have no idea how few calories one can produce from a small plot of land, nor the amount of labor it takes to produce it. The output from modern industrial agriculture is a miracle compared to what farming used to be.
LA pols must stop playing politics w/ the base human need of housing. There is no solution but building on an unprecedented scale. Lots should be subsidized, but lots will be market and that’s ok. DTLA wants density—build tall and dense in our region’s job & transit center! 🌇
LA pols must stop playing politics w/ the base human need of housing. There is no solution but building on an unprecedented scale. Lots should be subsidized, but lots will be market and that’s ok. DTLA wants density—build tall and dense in our region’s job & transit center! 🌇
Excellent thread
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On balance, we conclude that housing-policy salience is bad news for YIMBYs. State-level versions of what @mattyglesias calls "The Secret Congress" hold much more promise. /17 slowboring.com/p/the-rise-and…
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California has a $73B budget deficit and will soon face dramatic cuts to key programs for health, education, and public safety yet we're letting @TheCACoast hire lobbyists and a spokesperson for the sole purpose of blocking more housing. How is this a good use of our resources???
"Louis Mirante, vp of public policy at the Bay Area Council, a pro-business advocacy group, has helped lead the effort to curtail the commission’s authority. It arguably hasn’t faced such a challenge since voters approved the Coastal Act of 1972..." politico.com/newsletters/ca…
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Get em’ Nancy 👏🏻
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“We’re not anti housing, we actually welcome housing that is affordable and environmentally conscious.*” *has lots of parking politico.com/newsletters/ca…
By far most successful affordable housing strategy in history has been allowing the maximum possible amount of market-rate housing.
INTERACTIVE MAP & RESEARCH: How much of your city's new housing is priced affordable to low-income families? Probably more than you think! Glad to be in @metroabundance: metroabundance.org/how-inclusiona…
people will sometimes say that arguing against left NIMBYs is a waste of time because in reality most NIMBYism is right wing, but time and time again you see people in very influential policy making positions making nonsensical “left wing” arguments against market rate housing
Second, Coastal Staff rotely repeat that the coast does not need more market-rate housing, which is false. They refer to the project above (which would build 117 homes affordable to low income people) as "padding the profit margins of luxury developers". Here's an example:
Left NIMBYs have little actual power but their rhetoric provides ideological cover for right-NIMBYism in deep blue states and cities. As such, it’s important to refute their flimsy arguments against infill housing.
people will sometimes say that arguing against left NIMBYs is a waste of time because in reality most NIMBYism is right wing, but time and time again you see people in very influential policy making positions making nonsensical “left wing” arguments against market rate housing
The California Coastal Commission does good work to protect undeveloped coastal areas, but also fights to ensure that urbanized coastal areas continue to look like this: low-rise multimillion dollar homes with massive surface parking lots to preserve "public access" to the beach.
@maxdubler Yeah, heck, might as well just get rid of 'em, eh? Just develop the coast without these fussy enviro concerns getting in the way. Especially as climate change wreaks havoc in coastal areas. Great plan. @Patterdude knows regulatory agencies have to advocate for themselves, too.
Conservatives think upzoning will bring bad people into the neighborhood (criminals, poor people, transients, foreigners), while leftists think upzoning will bring bad people into the neighborhood (young professionals, students, transients, foreigners). They're very different
The California Coastal Commission is the NIMBY deep state.
Why in the hell has a state agency @TheCACoast hired lobbyists to influence legislature and PR pros to fight them?! they have it backwards - it’s the LEGISLATURE that sets policy. Their job to implement. Not other way around. Bureaucracy out of control politico.com/newsletters/ca…
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