Caleb Smith

Affordable housing nerd. Oakland aficionado. All comments are personal opinions and do not represent the City of Oakland.

[Caleb Smith @smiththought]

@hyphy_republic I guess it'll be interesting to see how it turns out- thank you for covering the election!

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@ZachTGR Probably. Late arriving ballots tend to skew left. Depends on how much election day vote we get tonight.

[Caleb Smith @smiththought]

It’s #ElectionDay in California today! Unless you get your mail ballot manually postmarked at a post office (you can ask), you should return your ballot to a polling place or drop box by 8 PM today!

And if you live in Oakland, please vote yes on E!

[Caleb Smith @smiththought]

@TrevorSAndersen @Jcumberland__ I could care less what their religious affiliation is. Conspiracy theories that all Mormons are in cahoots are just as absurd as conspiracy theories that all Catholics are pawns of the Pope.

[Caleb Smith @smiththought]

We should indeed redevelop the former base in Alameda, but there are already tons of suitable sites in downtown Oakland with existing zoning and transit access that would be a lot more ready to accommodate this kind of density.

[Stephen Trusheim @wow_tru]

I’ve got great news for you

We can accomplish more than a quarter of California’s state-wide housing goals by developing just one plot of federally owned land.

Exactly 0 people live on it today. It’s a peninsula in the Bay Area. This is the “other place” where you can build!

[Caleb Smith @smiththought]

@coryfromphilly And Oakland completed over 15,000 new homes over the last six years!

[Caleb Smith @smiththought]

I'm a former chapter president for my local Young Democrats club. Gov. Newsom needs to do better in future, or we should look elsewhere in 2028.

At times, I have admired Gov. Newsom's work- like Homekey, the California Climate Bond, etc., but this inconsistency needs to end

[Caleb Smith @smiththought]

Let the record show that when the hard choices needed to be made, Governor Newsom abandoned California's fight against climate change and cut affordable housing and transportation funding by hundreds of millions of dollars so he could give oil companies a $4 billion gift.

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

Happy to see @AirResources approve updates to California's Cap-and-Invest program after the Legislature extended it through 2045.

California is slashing emissions, creating jobs, and using funds raised from polluters to improve Californians' lives and health across the state.

[Caleb Smith @smiththought]

But these programs work really well in the places that invest in them! Don’t believe me? Check out the independent evaluation from Penn/Stanford: https://t.co/XIB9lzCb9Y

Targeted homelessness prevention is far cheaper than helping someone after they become homeless! (3/3, end)

[Caleb Smith @smiththought]

There are some good points here about the need for better data collection, but the idea California spends billions on homelessness prevention at present is unequivocally false. (1/3)

[CalMatters @CalMatters]

Opinion | California is spending billions on homelessness prevention without the governance infrastructure to know whether it is working. I watched that failure happen firsthand. https://t.co/Ss1nWA1hdI

📝 Tangela Babbitt
📸 Manuel Orbegozo

[Caleb Smith @smiththought]

HHAP is a flexible block grant program that usually gets spent on shelters, street outreach etc. for folks that are already homeless. There is no statewide prevention funding program… just a patchwork of local and charitable efforts (2/3)

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@MRomero510 @JacobsBen My bad!

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@kylekatarn95 @SenatorLuma It's a book called born in flames

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@mnolangray Didn’t the state legislature step in and really crack down on this? https://t.co/BXuv9umEJv

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@ashtonteng Very sorry to hear- you are a valued member of society in my book!

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@hairywelly1 @RealAlbanianPat My bad- the Lib Dems are larger here and would presumably lead as the largest left wing party

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@brianduffytweet @bigseb31213 Foxhole is very close to what you imagine here