DriveBikeWalk
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Drive. Bike. Walk. A balanced approach to housing, mobility, & our transition off carbon fuels. Cost-v-benefit measures are essential, as are fact-based claims.
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Joined December 2018
People constantly seem to think I'm arguing against building housing. Period. No, I'm arguing against the lies & pants-on-fire approach used to demand deregulation & force lifestyle transformation on the unwilling. Densify where it's welcome for those who want it. Period.
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3/ You might think this⤵️ account is a parody reading its bio, creating "one ugly building & zoning hack at a time", but nope. I'll credit its honesty on tactics & results.
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1/ If anyone was wondering why we LOOOVVVEEEE YIMBYs sooooooo much in California...
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LA YIMBYs boosting Austin Beutner, because he put a YIMBY on his team. 🚩🚩🚩
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Excellent piece linked here that looks at the complexity of what drives housing prices globally. The common belief that supply is the driver is not supported by evidence.
High home prices are not about low vacancy rates. It’s all about the Rent for precious urban dirt. Read Broken City for the why and for the what to do about it.
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"Do you capture the premium now, or let someone else sell your SB 79 dirt for you." SB 79 dirt. Because, really, that's all it is now. From my home, my neighborhood, to SB 79 dirt.
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It's such an important tenet of YIMBY that it was reiterated in the same thread.
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1/ State-level legislation as cover for local politicians facing angry residents is part of the YIMBY strategy.
Looks like somebody wants to transition from pulling the levers behind the scenes to providing more state legislated "cover" for the YIMBY local crew he's helped install. Local official to constituents: "I'd love to represent you, but my hands are tied. So sorry."
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JFC. There are hardcore YIMBYs saying that there were bills signed last week that weren't even on THEIR radar! This isn't the first time we've had a flood like this from the leg/gov, but it's definitely more aggressive and malicious. Big wins for extractive owner/developers.
This is wild. ICYMI, SB 79 was not the only pro-housing bill @CAgovernor signed. He signed over 40 bills that tackle speeding up construction, expanding affordability, strengthening accountability and more. I couldn't even fit it in one screenshot!
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3/ Compounded by the current frozen market due to past years of ultra-low interest vs. the higher ones now. It's not supply issues. It's a strange new voracious demand. Significant share of buyers with unprecedented cash willing to pay top dollar or more. It will run out.
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2/ I think it really is more a reflection of a broader problem than it is the main problem. The past 20 years has seen our connected world radically change the housing market system. HGTV, flipping, pre-sale prep, zillow, uber-financialization, driving prices to the ceiling.
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1/ I feel like this is wrong on so many levels... Am I wrong? Apartments are built to rent. These are just SF Homes built to rent. But the way they're marketed into investment vehicles to extract maximum rent makes it feel like an attack on homeownership.
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They ARE everywhere. In multiple copies. It's like a real-life version of They Live. Except we don't even need special sunglasses to see them.
sam is the east coast version of armand domalewski: he’s well connected and wealthy; he’s desperate to align with power, marketing himself as “just a smol bean guy;” and he’s hellbent on ruining the city in which he *currently* lives for other, long term residents
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2/ ... or Republican Mayor. It doesn't matter. The YIMBY-urbanist-developer-complex laughs... the developers to the bank, the yurbs in their weird form of schadenfreude.
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... and what? No fancy signing event on all the news channels? With you fawning over Wiener and Wicks? Like you did when you gutted CEQA, giving a shoutout to YIMBY, Ezra Klein, and the Abundance™ conclave? Is this one you want to fade away? Good luck with that.
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Another meaningless local "concession" by bill authors that gets the votes from weak-willed legislators, but will never be meaningfully used locally. The "Daylighting" law, AB-413, has a similar local option written to make use local use difficult, and unlikely.
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YIMBYs rejoice... no doubt. Gavin "YIMBY" Newsom. You bought it. You own it. See you at your next concession speech.
HUGE NEWS!! YIMBY’S REJOICE !! California is making historic strides today as @CAGovernor Gavin Newsom signs #SB79 — streamlining the building of more housing all across the Golden State. No, it does not supersede local control as some have falsely claimed. No, it is not
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🎯 ... although I will add, it's not just Los Angeles. The level of exploitation this allows and incentivizes to the most predatory of developers is disgusting. I'll offer up a giant 🖕to everyone involved in SB-79, and the gov for not stopping it.
SB79 disproportionately impacts Los Angeles, which is already reeling from unchecked land use corruption, money laundering vacant building hoards, unlicensed predatory rehabs and care homes, jail realignment, the fires and LADWP hacking. It's not urban planning: it's war on us.
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