East Bay for Everyone

Housing for All.

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

Our comments on @Oakland's "Oakland for All" vision plan.

Oakland needs a concrete plan, and responsible team, for delivering improvements to avoid repeating its past failures to develop housing and infrastructure throughout the city https://t.co/vsMpSlzlsB

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

@iamjimmyo Sure but the richest city in the area probably should be doing more to house the wealthy workers it's building new office space for.

Why should Oakland, which has far fewer resources than SF does, have to build enough housing both for its own population and also San Francisco's.

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

@iamjimmyo So I think what you're saying is that if SF built more luxury homes for people who moved there to work for Anthropic, then affordable housing in Oakland would "trickle down" to people who live in Oakland (instead of being bought out and flipped for $2.5m.)

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

@iamjimmyo Class A office space in SF - the highest quality kind - is being fully booked out.

When people who work in SF move to Oakland the increased demand pushes up the prices of homes and rents here and displaces local residents. If SF built enough homes rent prices wouldn't do that

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

@iamjimmyo It would be pretty helpful if S.F. andded enough housing for the workers who work in the Class A office space it keeps adding, yes.

Bc when you build only 300 new homes/yr those people start bidding up home and rent prices in Oakland and Berkeley instead.

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

@atrembath @reihan it's a lot easier to point to stuff that is broken and say "thats bad" than it is to credibly produce plans to address it. not sure the former counts as "good governance."

don't expect the median voter to be able to evaluate the difference but commentators probably should.

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

Today is Election Day. Thank you to everyone who did research into candidates policy positions, and the impact of ballot measures, and tried to figure out whether they would be good or bad for our region, our state and our country.

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@noahsloss How did Dean Preston vote on the application to build ~500 homes on the site of a valet parking lot

Where do you think the people who would have lived in that building are living now? Bc I guarantee some of them are currently pushing up rent prices in the East Bay instead.

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

@noahsloss why is banning new housing considered “pro renter” politics?

when people can’t find places to live they don’t disappear into a hole in the ground, they move to Oakland or Concord and push up the prices of homes there instead, which is pretty bad for renters.

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New walk/bike advocacy group based in Walnut Creek: https://t.co/PyJrxNYdlm

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Sort of crazy that CCTA is doing this at the same time as it has diesel buses idling at BART for 25-30 mins of a 45 minute round trip schedule, and built in 50 minutes of wait times to a 2 hour schedule

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@SFBayCityZen * for people who own homes in fire zones

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The buried lede here is that this action drastically reduces the risk the public will be subsidizing the cost of rebuilding expensive homes in Malibu and Orinda and discourages future construction in high hazard fire zones. Good news for most of us https://t.co/UF9Macdokv

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

The project would not cost close to this much had they been able to begin construction in 2018 or 2019. One good inflation hedge is just building stuff quickly

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Congrats @EdenHousing on breaking ground on 130 affordable homes in Livermore. We were proud to advocate for it and it is a shame that the approval process took eight years. https://t.co/JqG0TDM6vX

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Get involved with @eb4everyone to keep the train headed full steam ahead!
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Has anyone written about what Tom Steyer was like as a manager at Farallon Capital? Was it well run? Could he attract talented people? Were there labor lawsuits?

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You can easily see this because the utilities in California that don’t have NEM subsidies or wildfire liability (Silicon Valley Power, PAUD, SMUD) are able to deliver power for half of what PG&E/ConEd can.

Every gov candidate should get asked about NEM subsidies

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

California’s utility bills are uniquely high because of NEM subsidies and wildfire liability / related fallout. All of the other stuff is basically noise.

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@RealFakeDave @jbillinson The car hits his tire, which sends the bike to the right, which sends the rider to the left.

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Why is a heat pump more labor intensive to install than a natural gas heater? https://t.co/dq6W7xcYux

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