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Me anytime I start talking about housing in D.C.
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@alexbaca
Mad online about land use. D.C. policy boss @ggwash. Not paid to tweet, so DM me gossip. When I see the glory, I ain’t gotta worry.
[email protected] (Ward 1) Katılım Kasım 2007
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And we even tried GGEducation for a little bit! “Be more intersectional” when it comes to an interest group’s endorsement is rarely useful feedback, because the flipside is the same group going in a different direction on the issue you wanted it to address! Risky.
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y tho. The pact we all implicitly signed to keep the movement bipartisan-friendly was predicated on not everything-bageling it even when it fucking sucks and goes against what we believe and practice in our personal lives.
David Jiménez@David_E_Jimenez
A YIMBY movement expecting us to sidebar serious questions of municipal finance, business climate, public sector reform, crime, and public order bc of parking minimums is not a serious one.
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I ran for chair of W1D on the platform of a) have meetings b) determine whether or not we endorse. The body voted to endorse and here are the results of today’s meeting. I am extremely proud, and all credit goes to exec comm, precinct reps, and vols for it happening.
Ward One Democrats@WardOneDems
ENDORSEMENTS: Here are our endorsees, who received 2/3+ of votes from nearly 300 attendees today - Delegate: @RobertWhite_DC - Mayor: @Janeese4DC - At-Large Special: @tweetelissa - At-Large Primary: @repoyedc - Ward 1 Council: No endorsement (details in final tweet) (1/4)
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@tjl “lowering commercial rent” would be either a tax abatement or the dreaded commercial rent control so I’d call that off the table
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Alas, DC rents have not budged much even as the economy has softened and vacancy has risen: assets.cushmanwakefield.com/-/media/cw/mar…
Could the Council make a difference here? I don't know. But they haven't.
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The pay equity fund isn't meaningless but the Council *has* consistently shown it misunderstands the levers available for making childcare affordable
My wife guided our daycare through the pandemic as treasurer. You don't need to know much to understand childcare finances:
Naomi’s padre@JoshuaLopez202
DC is the most EXPENSIVE jurisdiction in the region when it comes to early childcare. Solving that should be the priority. Childcare should be affordable and accessible for every DC family who needs it. The “Pay Equity Fund” does absolutely nothing to address this issue.
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I’ve been doing this enough to know that there is not one single reason for anything and that you can rarely flip a switch. Isolating variables (is it rent arrears? Is it TOPA, or is it TOPA tolling?) is really hard. I at least can admit that rather than howling into the void.
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Now, the argument from the Yglesias crowd seems to be that we must eliminate all tenants’ rights to stimulate happy investor vibes. Forgive me for simply being skeptical of that given that most of the intel on investors is second- and thirdhand.
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You’re welcome.
Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle
For you pro-housing folks in D.C., this is going to be a good election cycle: Pretty much every mayoral candidate wants to build way more housing. But whether it actually gets built is a little more complicated. My rundown on where the candidates stand: 51st.news/dc-housing-cos…
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@alexbaca Also, that was not intended to get me in the middle of DC Mayor discourse :):) Just a question about that last sentence...
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@tjl about equal board-member overlap w both mayoral campaigns. we don’t endorse for access (longstanding rule i imposed when i started), but Kenyan’s questionnaire, woof.
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The closer you get to TOPA policymaking (one of the places I have been while not On Here), the odder, smaller-scale, and more bespoke things become. Hard to make public policy for an entity that, for ex., dislikes TOPA bc tenants have repeatedly voted not to sell to them.
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It's also important not to treat the "development community" as a monolith. Landlords and property owners often respond to different incentives than developers, and some local devs do in some cases have a vested interest in preserving the status quo to reduce competition.
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I will get around to a thread on the RENTAL Act and rent nonpayment, which I think are getting collapsed and standing in for one another in the discourse. Rent nonpayment is a serious problem *and* more limited than many, imo, are making it out to be.
Jordan Weissmann@JHWeissmann
If you talk to developers — including people who have written for Alex's site — they will tell you both are a problem.
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