Read on Twitter
alright since everyone is gonna have a conniption over this and I want to get it over with now, let's unpack it https://www.kqed.org/news/11860308/why-just-allowing-fourplexes-wont-solve-californias-housing-affordability-crisis
first off, single-family zoning sucks.
LET ME ALSO BE CLEAR: you don't get to NOT think about the built environment when you propose changes. an SFH owner in Compton who is beholden to Wells Fargo their whole life is not the same as one in Palo Alto. enough with that BS
LET ME ALSO BE CLEAR: you don't get to NOT think about the built environment when you propose changes. an SFH owner in Compton who is beholden to Wells Fargo their whole life is not the same as one in Palo Alto. enough with that BS
decades of inaction make land use interventions we're all debating more urgent, but also harder to entangle.
because we're trying to compensate for decades of inaction & exploitation, and for a massive & racialized inequality & affordability gap that has expanded in that time.
because we're trying to compensate for decades of inaction & exploitation, and for a massive & racialized inequality & affordability gap that has expanded in that time.
the market doesn't work! it's also the primary mechanism for development. even our subsidized funding is hopelessly tied to it.
that is the contradiction us LeFt NiMbYs must and do painfully work through, where many Housing Twitter ppl can, and do, choose to ignore it
moving on
that is the contradiction us LeFt NiMbYs must and do painfully work through, where many Housing Twitter ppl can, and do, choose to ignore it
moving on
in the short term we can prohibit renter-occupied demo, add tenant protections & rent control, and hit exclusionary communities where SFH prices are already bonkers.
ofc enforcement is a serious issue for all tenant protections, (of which right to return is the weakest & worst)
ofc enforcement is a serious issue for all tenant protections, (of which right to return is the weakest & worst)
IMO ppl should not worry so much about fourplexing b/c it is so incremental in practice. & there are options to rent control subdivisions even under Costa-Hawkins, which we should explore!
in the long run, rent control >>>>> means-tested, deed-restricted inclusionary zoning
in the long run, rent control >>>>> means-tested, deed-restricted inclusionary zoning
this should not be a controversial statement to anyone, so let's proceed
if you have a problem with this I've already yelled at you for five years now and I'd rather not again so don't make me, let's proceed
if you have a problem with this I've already yelled at you for five years now and I'd rather not again so don't make me, let's proceed
this is something that we have tools at our disposal to work on (and yes bring AMI levels down). through municipal housing, rent control, missing-middle & limited-equity co-ops, land trusts, other stuff
tilting land competition toward non-MR housing through zoning is v good!!!
tilting land competition toward non-MR housing through zoning is v good!!!
glad article ends here. you can't treat tenant protections like an afterthought. that's really the crux of designing any rezoning policy.
everyone who has ignored the idea of doing these things together or continues to mock those who bring it up fail. consider not ignoring us
everyone who has ignored the idea of doing these things together or continues to mock those who bring it up fail. consider not ignoring us
there's lots more to talk about but I'm going to leave it here for now. please do not take this as an opportunity to complain about the elected officials you do not like for the 800000th time. I don't care
