Adam Nathan • blaze.ai 🇺🇸
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What does the passage of AB130 do for cities like San Francisco? It stops years long delays of new housing so the city can transform from old and dilapidated to new, dense and beautiful. 🧵. From this To this
I just enacted the most game-changing housing reforms in recent California history. We're urgently embracing an abundance agenda by tearing down the barriers that have delayed new affordable housing and infrastructure for decades. Let’s get building, California.
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RT @garrytan: Support local small businesses. Government needs to get out of the way and make it easy for people to create prosperity for t….
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This is the way.
We're making it easier to open a small business in San Francisco. I just signed legislation renewing the First Year Free program, which waives registration, license, permit, and other first-year fees. It’s already helped thousands of businesses—and now it will continue to do so.
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San Francisco needs a "DOGE" but good where we actually remove regulations and red tape so we can make it easier to get things done!.
City contracting is broken. If San Franciscans had any idea how many wasteful “feel-good” mandates have been piled into our city contracts over the decades — to make competitive bidding LESS competitive, and goods and services MORE expensive — they’d be as infuriated as I am.
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San Francisco arresting drug dealers ✅.San Francisco funding the police ✅.San Francisco building shelters ✅.San Francisco adding treatment beds ✅. Plus the city is working with the right providers like @salvationarmysf and @TheWayOutSF. Slowly but surely. @DanielLurie
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Freezing the rent brings short term relief for some but stymies development which creates housing scarcity. But, in the end, people just want affordability. Saying things like "freeze the rent" forces us to have those conversations. People need a roof over their heads.
A close family member is trying to find a NYC apt that is affordable on her teacher salary and she can't. Affordability is indeed a huge issue in NYC. Freezing the rent on rent-stabilized apts will only make her situation worse. But no one on the left wants to hear that.
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RT @HarryStebbings: I walk every night for 90 mins through London. Tonight I saw three phone thefts in the space of 15 mins. @MayorofLo….
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National democrats are in a quandary. Do they tilt left and embrace Zohran at the risk of alienating moderates? Or do they go all in and hope Millennials, Gen Z and the Boomers can deliver in a national election? Time will tell. @ezraklein @DKThomp.
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It doesn't matter that CEQA reform was happening long before Zohran, it's that he beat them to the punch by embracing abundance first. Another win for the young socialist despite the good work of @Scott_Wiener who's been trying to reform CEQA for years.
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Zohran made a brilliant move in talking about abundance for the middle class which was then followed by establishment Dems in California rolling back CEQA to kickstart housing (abundance).
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If the best establishment Dems can offer up is Cuomo or Adams, they're not only in trouble, but people nationally are questioning who actually controls the democratic party right now.
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Now, people are shocked that a young, charismatic socialist is on the rise in our country's largest city. And it's establishment democrats who are most afraid of him. Not conservatives as they already expected this to happen on the left.
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Democrats maybe got too focused on regulation in an attempt to make everyone happy, that no one is. Instead of making sure you can afford the rent by building housing they blocked housing in the name of equity and the environment while people's rents skyrocketed in big cities.
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If he wins and becomes mayor of NYC, don't be mad at those who vote for him. Be mad at establishment democrats who aren't listening to their constituents. People want to be able to afford things and want the basics to work. Somewhere along the line this changed.
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Zohran Mamdani is popular because he's offering an alternative to establishment Democrats that have become too focused on holding power and have slipped into corruption scandals. I filmed this video 7 months ago. You're seeing the results now. 🧵
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Crime is down because San Francisco has the right mayor, the right DA, and a plurality on the board of supervisors that supports public safety. We can also build more housing thanks to CEQA rollbacks. San Francisco is winning. @GrowSF @garrytan @ArmandDoma
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The rise of Zohran Mamdani shouldn't be surprising. And he's smart to embrace populist discontent. I think abundance will be the "great compromise" amongst democrats from the center to the far left, and it will win elections.
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RT @YIMBYLAND: There are SF NIMBYs who will earnestly tell you that this is perfection and any attempt to change it is effectively a genoci….
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Credit not only goes to housing champions like @Scott_Wiener, but to @ezraklein @SFyimby @YIMBYLAND @ArmandDoma for continuously fighting to make housing easier to build in San Francisco and for bringing new ideas to California and the nation for the future. Let's go!.
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The only losers are those who want to keep their ocean views intact. (Yes, I'm talking about Aaron Peskin.) California is facing its worst housing shortage in its history. We must build. If we don't, get comfortable with higher rents, more homeless and fewer working class jobs.
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