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]

Thank you to everyone who took a moment to read a candidate's platform, to ask questions of a candidate, to donate your time or money, to participate in the endorsement process, or to cast a ballot

Your participation is crucial to ensuring a prosperous democracy.

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

We are very pleased to see that many of the candidates and measures we endorsed are leading, or have won tonight

Measure RTM
Buffy Wicks
Charlene Wang
Kevin Jenkins
Malia Vella
Thushan Amarasiriwardena
David Mourra
Sarah Syed
Robert Raburn

Other races are too close to call.

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

Do any of our followers commute from Antioch to San Francisco on a weekday? This article says that it takes 65 minutes to complete that drive, right now.

[San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle]

To better understand how proposed BART cuts could impact regional traffic, the Chronicle teamed up with researchers to simulate three possible scenarios for the morning commute. https://t.co/YzV5XKmMkj

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

@Birdyword Read small/medium city Reddit boards

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

Key findings:

- Raising property taxes reallocates homeownership from the elderly to the young
- moving CA from 0.8% to the TX 2% cuts 65+ homeownership by 6.2 points while the youngest group gains
-A 1% property tax increase cuts house prices 22.6%

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

in California, the Alcohol & Beverage Control board will deny your liquor license if a playground is located within 600 feet... https://t.co/xWfwhWWUxa

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

A playground that also serves pizza and beer is the highest achievement of civilization

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

It’s not just the cities, in Contra costa County ~60-70% of the impact fees are from EBMUD and the sanitary district

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

A new RAND study of impact fees finds that a 25% reduction in such fees would increase the number of feasible housing developments by 20%, and pay for itself via increased taxed revenue.

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

@TaupeAvenger Not so sure about that

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

@TaupeAvenger In 3-5 years you will be able to buy a car that can drive itself to an offsite garage and park itself within 2 inches of cars on all sides.

In addition to completely screwing up the built form the parking is the fastest depreciating part of the whole building

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

@TaupeAvenger The quality of life is also better. Good luck finding a 1 bedroom apartment with windows on two sides and two private balconies in the USA.

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

@TaupeAvenger That's a very confident statement that's also completely wrong. It's really hard to do 3 bedroom units when only one wall has a window. Avg unit size in WC project is 885 sq ft, Danish project is 930 sq ft.

(Search Robert Jacobsens Vej 50) https://t.co/qtoQGW4VN9

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

When every apartment is dual aspect it's much easier to offer apartments with 3 and 4 bedrooms. And with more open space you have room for a kids play area.

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

148 homes/acre in Copenhagen, Denmark vs. 130 homes/acre in Walnut Creek.

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

@MorosKostas look at the coalitions. raman’s base is

- much younger than the others
- renters
- democrats (no hang ups about mail voting)

all of these predict waiting until the last minute to vote

[East Bay for Everyone @eb4everyone]

@CharlesFLehman @jbarro not really helping if this is the straight news coverage they are reading https://t.co/RqgV5X6FKe

[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.