Indiecom

Long-Time Hoboken Resident; Rent Control and Housing Advocate; Sanders supporter, Medicare4All

[Indiecom @Indiecom2]

nut job 👇

[Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna]

After I questioned Secretary Rubio on Code Pink and their ties to the CCP, their organization followed me out, berated me, and then their head person here in DC smacked me.

I will be filing charges.

[Indiecom @Indiecom2]

@Icekiller369 @JerseyCity @pmcondon2 $3,400 to $2,800 (-22%) math only works if you cherry-pick luxury focused stats, ignore broad averages & pretend '25/'26 didn't stabilize. That’s not the market, it's selective stats. If rents were actually falling 22% per yr, it'd be the greatest housing collapse in NJ history.

[Indiecom @Indiecom2]

@Icekiller369 @JerseyCity @pmcondon2 If your evidence that "build, build, build" is working is that the avg. 1-bdrm is only $2,860, you're making MY point. That's about 60% above the nat'l avg & roughly 40% above the NJ avg. The slightest of declines after massive building is a failure.

[Indiecom @Indiecom2]

@Icekiller369 @JerseyCity @pmcondon2 JC Avg. rents: Studio: $3,050, 1 Bed: $3,122, 2 Beds: $3,950 ---- it doesn't matter how many times you repeat build, build, build....these prices are NOT affordable. A studio for over 3K!!!! who do you think you're kidding?

[Indiecom @Indiecom2]

@Icekiller369 @JerseyCity @pmcondon2 Repeating the same developer talking point over & over doesn't make it true. Hoboken & Jersey City have been "build, build, building" for years, yet both have become more unaffordable.

(Cue the response: "Build more. No, more than that. Build even more.")

[Indiecom @Indiecom2]

@Icekiller369 @JerseyCity I don't think you understand - housing's not a normal market. Upzoning increases land value, drives up prices. if new supply is mostly luxury housing, you get more units w/o getting affordability. read @pmcondon2 to understand why you're wrong. https://t.co/745ErQLxzK

[Indiecom @Indiecom2]

@eaconner Such cognitive dissonance -- treating a development that is 20% affordable & 80% market-rate as though it were primarily an affordable-housing project. 80% market means continued unaffordable status quo. How anyone could not see this is beyond me.

[Progressive Victory @ProgressiveVic]

We are officially calling for @GovSherrillNJ resignation.

We supported Mike Sherrill’s opponent in the primary, and when our candidate lost we lived by our principals. We not only endorsed her, but we had dozens of volunteers phonebank and canvass for her too.

We did this in spite of her campaign actively attempted to dissuade us from volunteering for her. They did everything they could to make it difficult for our volunteers to support her going so far as to refuse making phonebanks links for us.

Now she refuses to fight Republican concentration camps and instead is electing to fight the protesters who supported her “accountability campaign”.

This is what we get in return for voting blue no matter who. To the liberals reading this, don’t get mad at us, get mad at @GovSherrillNJ and every other worthless Democrat who treats their constituents like dirt.

[critical urbanism @criticalurban]

They say Yes in My Back Yard when they really mean Yes in Your Back Yard.

[Indiecom @Indiecom2]

Yup - exposing the false YIMBY narrative that build, build, build will solve the housing crisis.

[Red and Green @Malcolm1818]

There’s a clear moral case for rent control. Academic Beth Stratford outlines the economic one.

[Indiecom @Indiecom2]

#Hoboken City Council can, by resolution, move the school board election back to April & if the BOE election is in April, voters w/b able to vote on the budget. 5 votes is all that's needed. Spread the word. Which 5 council persons are serious about cutting costs & which aren't.

[Indiecom @Indiecom2]

@StevenFulop Does the former mayor think it's a race?

[Indiecom @Indiecom2]

@eaconner I'm fine w/ADUs

[Indiecom @Indiecom2]

@eaconner So what you are saying is to the ppl on the affordable housing list: We're not interested in addressing this need but, we'll make sure there are some crumbs for you somewhere maybe a long time from now. #NoSuchThingAsTrickleDownHousing

[Indiecom @Indiecom2]

@KevinRBing Jumping to build, build, build, eh? Maybe the problem isn’t the number of apartments it’s that the enormous supply we already have has been turned into an investment vehicle instead of housing people can actually afford.

[Indiecom @Indiecom2]

Prediction:

6 months into a recession, YIMBY Twitter will be posting charts about falling rents like: “See? We told you upzoning works.”
Meanwhile:
unemployment rising
consumer collapse
But yes, the four luxury towers with dog spas definitely did it.

[Hal Singer @HalSinger]

I get a bunch of tweets (or dunks) from Abundance Grifters, constantly auditioning for funding from developers or investors, who assert—often by pointing to a city or two in Texas—that deregulation is the key to making housing more affordable. Yet this recent San Francisco Fed study, released in February 2026, contradicts the abundance thesis. Because the study is a bit technical, I thought I’d break it down for you. 🧵

[Indiecom @Indiecom2]

https://t.co/rTOgpipk1N

[Indiecom @Indiecom2]

@eaconner No, there is soooo much more at play & you don't seem to understand that: Useable land, Personal income levels, taxes, desirability.