@MissionLoco @wafoli Newsom's SOMA plan never passed. The subsequent WSOMA plan up zoned for more luxe condos while imposing a 200' buffer to segregate conflicting land uses. If 20 yr ago's complaints from neighbors is any indication, Dorsey will have rough run in 2026 as clubs expand footprints.
When @wafoli said that 82K new units would not push down property values, she's saying that YIMBY have been lying to San Franciscans for almost a decade now about being able to build our way to affordability. https://t.co/4NiVm3jk1e
I want to talk about the racist co-opting by developers of civil rights language to denigrate and describe local residents who challenge big real estate.
Quick THREAD on so called βNIMBYismβπ§΅
@rcmoya84@sourdoughsays Efforts to split Prop 13 rolls and repeal the ban on rent control failed at the ballot box. These are extremely heavy political lifts that are not realistic to attempt without a level of popular organizing that the Democrats simply won't tolerat. Losing only bolsters the elites.
@PippengerHarlo All single issue politics in the neoliberal era has devolved into tribal purity tests and recriminations of anyone who does not toe the line with sufficient zeal.
Day trip to Monaco from France to visit the @OceanoMonaco. Limited land + high rise housing = median price of a unit @ β¬4.7m! YIMBY want to make SF Monaco but the aquarium is pitiful.
Relative Arguments, A < B β΄ A: Whenever the YIMBY is confronted with an absolute hard infrastructural limit, one recourse is to pull an unrelated example from thin air, an example with generally worse trade-offs than what is on the table for discussion,