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Here’s a short thread with my thoughts on the comparisons that have been drawn this week between San Francisco and Sacramento’s housing policy. 
Earlier this week Sacramento legalized the development of fourplexes citywide, effectively banning single-family zoning!
This is a HUGE step in the right direction, and one I wish had more support in SF. Fourplexes remain illegal to build in the vast majority of The City.
This is a HUGE step in the right direction, and one I wish had more support in SF. Fourplexes remain illegal to build in the vast majority of The City.
That being said, zoning isn’t the only aspect of housing policy.
To claim, as many this week have, that San Francisco is “more conservative” than Sacramento on housing policy is a major slap in the face to every tenant facing this unprecedented eviction crisis right now.
To claim, as many this week have, that San Francisco is “more conservative” than Sacramento on housing policy is a major slap in the face to every tenant facing this unprecedented eviction crisis right now.
Our elected officials in San Francisco have fought their asses off to ensure we have the strongest pandemic tenant protections of any city in the state.
Meanwhile, Sacramento’s City Council remains outright hostile to rent control.
Meanwhile, Sacramento’s City Council remains outright hostile to rent control.
I address both the importance of Sacramento’s fourplex legislation and the city council’s hostility towards rent control to validate where everyone is coming from in this debate.
My goal isn’t to declare SF better than Sacramento, or vice versa. That doesn’t help us.
My goal isn’t to declare SF better than Sacramento, or vice versa. That doesn’t help us.
This argument demonstrates once again the way we’ve allowed ourselves to be organized into either team San Francisco or Sacramento, tenant protections or zoning, etc.
And that leaves our Venn diagram looking like this!
We deserve better than alllll of that. https://twitter.com/alfred_twu/status/1353199676783136769
And that leaves our Venn diagram looking like this!
We deserve better than alllll of that. https://twitter.com/alfred_twu/status/1353199676783136769
