Kool-Aid Man to Invisible Walls
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Kool-Aid Man to Invisible Walls
@EmoJeb
Mostly Portland, sometimes LA. Former BigLaw attorney, radicalized at YIMBY training camps, want the best future for my kids.
PDX Katılım Ocak 2016
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@catvielma If your city is more worried about developers actually making money than about renters actually getting housing, then you're not going to build a lot of housing.
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I genuinely don’t understand how the politics of red states are more progressive on housing issues than blue states.
Explain to me like I’m 5.
Carolina Forward@ForwardCarolina
BOOM! The North Carolina State House just unanimously (107 to 0) passed a ban on parking minimums in new developments statewide. This is powerful and bipartisan pro-housing reform that will make it easier to expand multifamily housing. Great work. ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/202…
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Another hypothesis:
Austin landlords are less greedy than landlords in other markets.
Ritchie Torres@RitchieTorres
When you expand the supply of housing—as Austin has done—you drive down housing costs and lower rents. That’s the simple magic of housing abundance at work. Austin builds roughly 10 new homes per 1,000 residents. New York City? Fewer than four.
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@yhdistyminen Do these people even know what trickle-down economics was?
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Kool-Aid Man to Invisible Walls retweetledi
.@CityPortland’s 2024 Housing Report confirms what many feared: raising IZ from 10% to 25% in 2021 didn’t spark affordability — it torched production.
From 900+ units in 2021 to barely a trickle since. Inclusionary zoning with exclusionary results.
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@VeniceIntel @lacontroller Those families having parking is better than other families having housing, great point!
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@lacontroller You have your facts in correct.
Hundreds of Families had parking on Mother’s Day because this scam driven by hedge funds was 👏stopped by 👏 LOCALS👏
The Parking Lot pays many expenses for the City.
Don’t Speak on Venice Beach like this unless you’d like a Thermonuclear War.
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The City of LA is SPENDING money (during a budget crisis) to STOP Venice Dell - an affordable housing project that the public wants, the City desperately needs, & that 👏 WAS 👏 ALREADY 👏 APPROVED 👏 by the City & the State.
(Even a federal Judge spoke up about it 👨⚖️)
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@ChrisByBike Michael Weinstein furiously trying to figure out how much of AHF's funding he can use to donate to her opponents in the election cycle without running afoul of non-profit regulations.
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@esotouric @PropertyMan219 @Mishka__1 Why do more people living near you make your housing "objectively worse"?
Have you considered that, unlike you, many people aren't fusty misanthropes and don't actually mind new neighbors?
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@PropertyMan219 @Mishka__1 Are they protesting "housing" or objecting to zone changes that would make places they care about and have invested in objectively worse? Who do city planning departments work for: the taxpaying residents or corporate real estate interests?
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"Left NIMBY" isn't a thing. "NIMBY" isn't, either. The wealthiest people in the world have hired lobbyists to create deceptive talking points meant to divide communities and distract from what's actually happening: manufacturing housing crises, hollowing out cities, profit.
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@esotouric @KortsaOrlong @Mishka__1 If making more "vacant" units available would "move the needle," that gives the game away on your objection to new development, which makes more vacant units for rent.
You're obviously just opposed to any change that would impact your tours and personal nostalgia. So lame.
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@KortsaOrlong @Mishka__1 There are no canonical sources for true vacancies, but efforts are ongoing to track them (see emptylosangeles.com). Not saying returning empty buildings to use and cracking down on illegal home shares would solve everything, but we're convinced it would move the needle.
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@esotouric Y'all "preserve a defunct gas station to block housing" people are the absolute worst.
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Kool-Aid Man to Invisible Walls@EmoJeb
It's going to be wild when the hated insurance industry turns out to be the actual driving force behind climate policies, urban density, and car-free living (at least lower uptake of SUVs due to increased risk), because their actuaries don't fuck around. twitter.com/JakeAnbinder/s…
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@mateosfo This Rhodium report from 2020 is helpful in understanding the increasing risks across the country. Homeowners insurance is becoming the canary in the coal mine for climate risk. projects.propublica.org/climate-migrat…
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Fifteen years ago as a part of our climate risk assessment for the US, we saw models that showed Florida collapsing. Gradually, then suddenly.
Its home insurance market is a shambles -- $15,000 annual premiums -- and unsustainable sprawl causing massive property tax increases.
Nick Gerli@nickgerli1
I don't think people understand what's happening in housing market right now. Florida now has 177,00 listings. Highest level on record. Entire Northeast U.S. has 79,000 listings. Lowest level on record. People are leaving Florida. And moving back north. A structural trend that will likely last years, and cause Florida's housing market to decline for an extended period.
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@mateosfo Their house is always the last one in the neighbourhood that should be built
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The one thing you need to know about NIMBYism, whether it's left or right, is that nobody complains about the house *they live in.*
Which was built. Probably by a developer. In a location that did not used to have housing.
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@Cosby @Chan_man0 @ShadowyZephyr @yhdistyminen They must be really fucking stupid then, since their actions in the context of housing policy consistently enable even greater rent extraction due to lack of new housing supply.
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@Chan_man0 @ShadowyZephyr @yhdistyminen leftists are generally opposed to private property and rent extraction off housing.
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Community meetings about development overwhelmingly skew white, old, and wealthy. There is no serious debate about this. Giving the most privileged people a heckler's veto over badly-needed development is bad.
Keith Orejel@keithdorejel
Like this is the dumbest guy on here right? Like we can all agree on that?
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The price of housing is set by supply + demand.
If your city added 50k net new jobs last year but only built 10k new homes, rent is going up bc supply<demand.
However, it will go up LESS than if those new homes hadn’t been built.
Many people struggle with this counterfactual!
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I like how there’s an entire political class in SF that’s basically “surfer localism for artists, gulag for tech workers” and they inexplicably brand themselves as the progressive left.
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@Michael44856350 @mateosfo Food advocates should note that in a lot of supermarkets, new boxes of cereal sometimes sit on the shelf, unconsumed, for up to a month before someone buys them.
For this reason, nobody should advocate for the production of more cereal, or food generally.
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For folks new to Abundance discourse you may notice that its critics are, almost to a person, the same people who, about 10 years ago, started opposing YIMBYism because YIMBYs want more homes.
A thread about what's happening 🧵
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How many hipsters does it take to change a lightbulb?
It's an obscure number, you probably haven't heard of it.
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Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler
Everything hipsters were into 15 years ago went mainstream. You can buy raw denim at Uniqlo. Target has vinyl records. Your corner store has craft beer. Right wing chuds dress like urban lesbians and graphic designers did in 2010. Everyone drinks fancy coffee now. They won.
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Kool-Aid Man to Invisible Walls@EmoJeb
It's going to be wild when the hated insurance industry turns out to be the actual driving force behind climate policies, urban density, and car-free living (at least lower uptake of SUVs due to increased risk), because their actuaries don't fuck around. twitter.com/JakeAnbinder/s…
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