
Spirangelos
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Spirangelos
@spiroferrer
Trap economist and landlordology scholar @StrikeDebt @SAJE_ShiftPower @ChallengeIneq @antievictionmap


If your income falls, you'll spend a higher percentage of your income on housing. Makes sense. But also... If your income increases but not as much as the average person in your metro, your income becomes relatively lower for your metro, and you'll spend a higher percentage of your income on housing. So, if incomes in your metro are increasing faster than your income, it makes your housing more expensive (e.g., San Francisco the last 30 years)? And you blame it on zoning.



In "LA’s Left-Liberal Electoral Problem," Promise Li @promise__li reflects on LA's recent mayoral race, ideological differences and fissures that pose a challenge to left unity and strategic opportunities for building real working class power. spectrejournal.com/las-left-liber…

The really funny thing about this is if the scoreline stays as is, the United States’ “Golden Generation” will have lost by a wider margin than we did to a much stronger and deeper Belgium 12 years ago, meaning U.S. Soccer has inarguably regressed lol




Think Palestine is being overrated as an explanatory factor in the success of left candidates this cycle, and that in fact the average democratic voter is at least equally motivated by punishing party leadership for their fecklessness and abject failure to fight Trump

"The people who constructed America’s system of widespread comprehensive central planning of the housing market did not typically think of themselves as socialists."

Now that the California billionaire tax is officially on the ballot this November, voters deserve logical arguments. This guest essay in today’s New York Times, by two economists from the Hoover Institution, is based on a shocking logical mistake. 🧵








