Spirangelos

Trap economist and landlordology scholar @StrikeDebt @SAJE_ShiftPower @ChallengeIneq @antievictionmap

[Spirangelos @spiroferrer]

The largest corporate landlords in the United States are surgically evicting Los Angeles' Black tenants.
https://t.co/dL19edZ7Xz

[Spirangelos @spiroferrer]

@its_mccarthy Lefebvre state, space, world.

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@BigMeanInternet Some internet communists were complaining about the theory, when we should all be taking a lesson from the organizing,

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Yet another election demonstrating that the westside liberal has gone the way of the dodo and the beach nazi is now the hegemonic force of the electoral politics of the region

[Professor Sarah Schindler @SBschindler]

The Abundance Agenda’s Anti-Tenancy Blindspot https://t.co/yQYR8mqNLf

[Spirangelos @spiroferrer]

@workertenant Wouldn’t dare accuse you of loose talk, but the swings have become significantly larger in the post-pandemic because of voting mode shifts.

Don’t think this is evidence of anything but prevailing wisdom but gambling offs are now for Raman.

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@workertenant I’ve seen larger swings in LA, though i think he’s likely to keep the lead

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@dillonliam Ah apologies! Don’t mean to put words in your mouth.

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I think this case would be better made if the more explicitly pro-development challengers in other local races weren’t being trounced. The strength of Roy indicates a progressive challenge, but Roy’s communication on housing has been about defending tenants.

[Liam Dillon @dillonliam]

LA’s city attorney has been one of the most prominent elected officials — and especially legal officials — opposed to state housing legislation to boost density in cities, most notably SB 79. And she’s been ousted in the primary

[Spirangelos @spiroferrer]

Miller and Mantle, for example are being crushed. Faizah, running against arch-NIMBY Traci Park, also appears to be significantly behind (though not exactly a YIMBY candidate, certainly is moreso than Roy)

[Rent Controller OG🌹🪟 @AlisonB916]

Tenant folk have been noticing this for decades.
https://t.co/sg21MUF9HL

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

Notice how universities are moving at break-neck speed to make sure their students have AI but have been resistant to paying graduate students, faculty and staff a living wage. It's not about the money—it's about what a neoliberal university system prioritizes.

[Spirangelos @spiroferrer]

Dead guy with name starting with a B:
Burawoy, Blaut, Blauner, Braverman, (Du) Bois, Brenner
Other: Gill

[Tim Gill @timgill924]

Since everyone is sharing their favorite American authors, who is the best American sociologist?

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@daveweigel Widely held aspect of the algo folk knowledge is that external links are suppressed and images get more views.

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Rental market is never going to be competitive, and only a shill or a rube can believe it might one day resemble the one in the textbook with enough string pushing

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When you fulminate against taxation so hard you accidentally show the rental market isn’t competitive and violates the law of one price.

[Jesse Zwick @jessezwick]

RAND just dropped the most comprehensive study yet of Measure ULA.
High-value transactions 31%🔽. Apartment production 30%🔽. Buildings that sold passed the tax through to tenants as higher rents. ~$452M in lost revenue to city, county & schools. ~16,000 construction jobs lost.

[Spirangelos @spiroferrer]

Economists: “price controls are for market failures”

Economists when looking at market failure: “time to cut taxes babeeyyyyy”

[Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoorDC]

WelcomeFest — aka "Centrist Coachella" — returns to D.C. next month. It's a celebration of corporate sellouts who believe in nothing. https://t.co/KBxWgw0zLf

[Spirangelos @spiroferrer]

One thing woke commonly names is the struggle for respect and dignity and the struggle to be respectful and treat people in a dignified way. That’s something that can never cease on the left even if our perspective on how to accomplish it changes.

[Spirangelos @spiroferrer]

I don’t think “woke” is over, and I don’t think it should be. I do think that moralizing as politics is exhausted on the left, and it’s now time for what one might call scientific socialism.