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“but if we add more homes to my neighborhood, where will i park”
“in a liberal, free-market democracy, Susan”
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(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences
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(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences
@mateosfo
Housing theory of everything, buses, bicycles. Be the strange you wish to see in the world. Words for @cayimby, now available on Bluesky! Same handle.
Berkeley, CA Katılım Aralık 2009
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why are the most liberal cities so messed up? part of it is they love performative bullshit but not any actual policy. principled courage like this is rare ⤵️
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the market demand for new luxury condos is substanitally larger than has been reported
Jimmy “Jonesin” Maverick@EXP0SETHEFRAUD
Yeah bro buying an old house is a fucking nightmare. I’ve never spent so much god damn money to be pissed off fixing shit. Then my wife thinks I’m god damn Bob the fucking builder. “Oh men are suppose to be handy” fuck you, I grew up playing runescape I don’t know shit about fuck to fix shit. Oh watch YouTube. Watch a tik tok. God I want to kill myself.
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@UrbanCourtyard we have some amazing volunteer organizers for safe streets in Berkeley, they have really transformed the politics in our city
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@mateosfo Love to see parents organizing like this
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I am watching a large group of Berkeley parents with small children take on Berkeley's elderly, NIMBY violent drivers and advocate for safe streets, and it is an amazing thing to see.
Don't see how the City can keep defending the violent drivers after this.
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@burnowt @BerkeleyScanner I'm always disgusted when people hide behind the disabled to cover for their own selfishness.
Most disabled people can't drive. In Berkeley we have among the largest populations of folks who roll in mobility devices -- in *protected bike lanes.*
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@BerkeleyScanner These installations are all fabulously ableist. Anybody in the area with mobility impairments should have a case for stopping this.
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Despite a sharply divided public, Berkeley has approved protected bike lanes on Hopkins Street. CM Shoshana O'Keefe (who reps the district) called it "absolute madness." "This is about more than just a bike lane," countered CM Mark Humbert. MORE: berkeleyscanner.com/2026/07/30/all…
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@LartinMeff what the research shows is community meetings disproportionately benefit people who are retired and/or have no family obligations at home, and that's gonna bias toward a very specific cohort: old and white
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@mateosfo Community meetings have a lot of selection bias, you're probably not seeing too many people there who like the project bc showing up to say they like it is just a waste of time for them
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As a veteran of too many city council meetings dominated by old, violent, repugnant NIMBYs, I think it's important to share the lessons of that type of public engagement:
They are only representative of the people in the room. Which is to say, they don't represent old people.
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@adam_la_rosa ... and neither work to slow down cars
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But I'm quite sure she understands that's OK.
And I'm super glad to have so many older folks like her joining us to fix our cities, increase access to homes in walkable areas, and end driver violence.
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... align with YIMBYs and safe streets advocates on most topics, and often as not, will show up *with us* to fight for change.
Last night in Berkeley, one of the oldest people in the room advocated for safe streets. She was 85. She got no applause from the other old folks.
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So when an old, violent, repugnant NIMBY accuses you of being ageist or discriminatory, that's just their ego tamping down shame they feel for their grotesque self-centeredness. They may never change their minds.
But that's OK. Most elderly are very good people, who honestly ...
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And they're terrified. I can't tell you how many old YIMBYs I've met who talk about the fights with their spouses over driving, or who are just so terrified of how violent driving in America has become, in general, and feel like their diminished reflexes put them at risk.
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It's hard for families to talk to their older relatives about when it's time to take away the keys, especially with an older person who has conflated their identity with their car.
But there are literally millions of older Americans who don't need to be told. They know it.
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By letting a small cohort of old, violent, NIMBY drivers block infill housing and safe streets, we are condemning the vast majority of older Americans to government driving mandates even when *they know that puts themselves, and others, at risk.* nhtsa.gov/older-drivers/…
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Reasons are simple, really: Old people make up a disproportionate share of homeless; old people make up disproportionate share of victims of driver violence; and old drivers are increasingly driving violently -- in many cases, against their will. livabilityindex.aarp.org/finding-a-walk…
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The old, violent, repugnant NIMBYs will inevitably accuse you of ageism/discrimination when you point out the majority of NIMBYs who attend city council meetings are indeed quite old!
But that's just observation. Truth is, most old people want more homes. cayimby.org/blog/unreprese…
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@greg_buchak like, we are in existential crisis-levels of a shortage of home health care aids and senior care workers and so putting those facilities in the middle of nowhere would be unspeakably cruel
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@greg_buchak no, you have to put them in the middle of job centers because those communities also need workers
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In addition to YIMBYs having a large cohort of retirees who want to live in walkable neighborhoods, we also have lots of old people who ride bikes/transit.
And if you asked them, which I have, they openly talk about how they're too old to drive, and are afraid of hurting someone
Arthus Russell@ArthusRussell
You gotta love yimbys.
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@bespokediogenes @Sr_Lazarus do you think you are the very first bully I've ever encountered
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@ArthusRussell Just as our city took on the violent gangs who used to shoot at each other in my neighborhood, our city has an obligation to take on the violent drivers who are maiming and killing people across the city.
I take it you're just pro-violent crime.
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@ArthusRussell I've lived in Berkeley 15 years and by far the most violent people I encounter on a daily basis -- the people most likely to kill me or severely injure me -- are elderly drivers. Usually in Priuses.
And they always shout something rude, just like they do in council meetings.
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