#Affordable

Why has SF made it nearly impossible to build #MissingMiddle housing-- which you can build with wood, quickly and inexpensively, adding incrementally to existing neighborhoods? https://www.sightline.org/2019/02/13/who-would-live-in-missing-
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To understand the problems affecting nearly all new housing development in the UK, just search the name of any major house builder + “development layout” in Google images.Here’s a taste
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1/ @NancySkinnerCA Here's a $10b solution for hard-pressed CA cities:https://twitter.com/NancySkinnerCA/status/1341064141969051648 2/ End platinum insurance subsidies for retired police, prison guards and other public employees. CA is t
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A lot of people are wondering why I’ve contradicted myself and decided to transition Jumping Jack Taxes from a licensing company to a franchise.Let me be completely honest... 1. I
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I've met many council leaders and MPs to talk about housing and homelessness over the years. The view that local services are attracting homeless people to an area is REMARKABLY
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This podcast has an interesting account of why western wildfires have gotten so much worse. In large part, of course, the answer is climate change. But not to be discounted
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#CityofTO accelerates 150 new supportive housing opportunities as part of updated COVID-19 Housing and Homelessness Response Plan. News release: http://toronto.ca/news/city-of-toronto-accelerates-150-new-supportive-housing-opportunities-as-
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People often ask what socialists mean when we say we want to "decommodify" housing.Basically, we want to move away from a situation where most people access housing by purchasing it
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Automatic permission for new homes will only make housing affordable if you believe that housebuilders are willing to flood the market with enough supply to bring prices radically down, instead
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CW: suicideThis is a good take and it’s worth spelling out why. One of the leading theories of suicide right now is Thomas Joiner’s Interpersonal Theory of suicide, which posits
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Opinion | Biden shouldn’t listen to Schumer and Warren on student loanshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/biden-shouldnt-listen-to-schumer-and-warren-on-student-loans/2020/11/17/b5839042-2915-11eb-9b14-ad872157ebc9_story.html?tid=ss_
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This op-ed from Donald Trump and @SecretaryCarson is exceedingly dishonest, filled with factual errors, distortions and lies. It is blatant and cynical fear-mongering, a cheap and harmful political ploy for
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I want to highlight 4 processes happening right now in Seattle; each a fight for the future of a city, each an illustration of the perverse system we’ve built, where
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Billions spent to build segregated schools & neighborhoods.@teachcardona : "While the State Department of Education’s focus is on educational policy, we must also acknowledge that racial imbalance exists to a
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The triple decker is Boston's iconic architecture; our historic "missing middle" housing, first built en masse to house Boston's growing working class & has served generations of families since. But
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My beautiful friend Emma was first diagnosed with cancer when we were 14. Despite invasive treatment she managed to get her English degree from one of the UK’s top unis,
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