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I’m just gonna leave this right here for absolutely no reason whatsoever…🫠🫠🫠
San Francisco supervisors voted 10-1 in support of state Sen.
@Scott_Wiener
's bill, SB 532. Chan voted in dissent. Bill would increase bridge tolls on seven state-owned bridges to $1.50 for five years that would go towards funding public transit operations.
#sfbos
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Oh, I've adopted the 8 around my building and I've used them all for blatant YIMBY propaganda 😉
Cleared all 8 last night too ahead of the storm. I always have to deal with a bunch of consumer wrapping trash from the nearby Safeway...😩
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Apparently, some San Francisco "progressives" are trying to defend the ludicrous cost and time it takes to approve and build one toilet in Noe Valley.
Spending an exorbitantly long amount of time and money on one tiny public project isn't "progressive" it's an embarrassment
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This is such a beautiful scene, why would we ever want to go back to the old ways?
#SlowStreets
#KeepTheNeighborhoodCharacter
#ArtistsOnOurStreets
#MissionDistrict
#SmallBizChallenge
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The horror…the TERROR!!! The…NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTER IS RUINED 😱😱😱
Or…alternatively, we could work to make this LEGAL AGAIN all over San Francisco, a nice 7 story apartment building sitting side by side with a 3 story one, with no fuss or chaos
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...just like that, SF has ended single family home only zoning...not with a celebratory bang, but with a whimper...and a mound of extra anti-housing criteria that essentially ensures nothing will get built:
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Ladies and gentlemen, the days of fucking around (in SF) are OVER!
The days of FINDING OUT are about to begin 😈😈😈
And just like that, San Francisco loses local control!
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Yet another anti-housing maneuver from our extraordinarily out of touch BoS who refuses to act on the housing shortage with the urgency it deserves 😡
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Well, it's over.
The
@sfbos
has voted to override (and therefore enact) Aaron Peskin's downzoning legislation over the veto and objections of Mayor
@LondonBreed
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Well. Here we fucking go.
The god king of NIMBYism has decided he’s not done fucking up San Francisco for waves of future generations of young people:
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I’ve said it more than a dozen times, but this is the goal:
1. Have clear, objective and concrete rules and standards in the law
2. You propose a project that meets those standards. You get your permits. Period.
Everything else invites corruption and “permit expediters”
YIMBYism is the radical idea that we should set clear rules for what developers can build in advance and then *actually let them build* the kinds of developments that we planned for with minimal fuss, instead of letting local busybodies change the rules at the last minute.
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Breaking: the NIMBYs who opposed the “monstrosity” at 2700 Sloat are going to be equally opposed to a 100% below market rate project there, whether it’s 50 stories, 20 stories or 8 stories:
Here’s an idea. We just build the damn housing and do it quick.
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I am reminded again that San Francisco's deathly addiction to "community conversation" is ripped right out of the CIA playbook for sabotaging organizations and conferences:
Article from today:
OSS Sabotage from 1944:
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Your recurring reminder that Aaron Peskin has been pulling this shit for well over 20 years and that San Francisco's chronic inability to do anything meaningful about it's housing shortage is DIRECTLY attributable to this man and his enabling of NIMBYism:
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So, I uh…forgot to share this when it happened earlier this week, but on my way back from the doctors office I decided to stop by here, this new place on Clement…
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Happy Friday San Francisco from all the way out here in Ocean Beach 👋🏽
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Oh, hmmmm…where have I seen this song and dance before…?
Oh yeah, it’s the SF Progressive classic playbook, funnel money into the pockets of allied orgs to “build capacity”
Then, watch as they do nothing useful and instead fight housing/transit/useful things for years😡
This is, without exaggeration, the worst permitting reform idea I’ve ever heard.
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Maybe, just maybe you should be less condescending to the thousands and thousands of voters who disagree with you *substantively* on the issues that we collectively face as a city.
Maybe, just maybe people disagreed with you
Maybe some introspection is in order...
“You have money interests that are trying to essentially buy San Francico, and quite frankly, buy elections.
And I am sorry to say that tonight it seems that they were in fact successful.”
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@JoelEngardio
@RafaelMandelman
@AaronPeskin
@DeanPreston
@Ahsha_Safai
@Stefani4CA
@conniechansf
@mattdorsey
And my deep gratitude to Mayor
@LondonBreed
who has made it clear she is a champion for removing the barriers to getting more housing built in San Francisco.
Time for us to elect a Board of Supervisors who shares that same dedication as her:
Today is a setback in our work to get to yes on housing. But I will not let this be the first step in a dangerous course correction back towards being a city of no. We will not move backward.
My statement on the Board of Supervisors downzoning vote:
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“Look out Donald Trump, the
#squad
has arrived...and we are here to stay”
-
@RepBarbaraLee
giving a shoutout to
@AyannaPressley
@RashidaTlaib
@AOC
@IlhanMN
@Deb4CongressNM
on the steps of
#SanFrancisco
#CityHall
#WomensMarch2019
#DumpTrump
#ElectWomen
#EndTheShutdown
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Used
@Scott_Wiener
's SB-35 ✅
Used modular union construction from
@FactoryOS
✅
Used the CA State Density Bonus Program
@California_HCD
✅
Proposed Jan 2019
Completed Nov 2021
We need to replicate this process 1000x NOW
@LondonBreed
,
@PhilTing
,
@DavidChiu
,
@MattHaneySF
833 Bryant is open! Proof that SF can house our unhoused neighbors more quickly and efficiently (and in a beautiful building) than ever before. Now, we need our elected to greenlight more housing. We will continue the fight.
@tippingpoint
@_SFHAF
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Aaron Peskin is a liar, a charlatan, and the architect of the most destructive San Francisco policies over the past two decades:
He needs to be shown the door. For good.
As someone who has been on the receiving end of a drunken Peskin phone call where he then took me apart the next day in the most petty way in which I could not even respond, c’mon man. How can you be this duplicitous?
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I'm just going to keep tweeting these columns from
@hknightsf
until it sinks in for all the galaxy brained takes and hard spinning I'm seeing from San Francisco's far left progressive establishment this morning.
These were true in June and November 2022 and they still are
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This is a really elaborate way for
@AaronPeskin
to monopolize time, energy, and precious attention from the SF Board of Supervisors away from San Francisco's most pressing issues like HOUSING, and TRANSIT, and
THE FACT THAT THERE ARE NO NAVIGATION CENTERS IN THE WESTSIDE!
Supervisors
@AaronPeskin
@Ahsha_Safai
now proposing cafeteria ban in future San Francisco offices Presumably Facebook can still build cafeterias at
@181Fremont
@ParkTowerSF
but this could affect major office projects in Central SoMa
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You know, people keep saying "the 50 foot tower is a terrible idea" but y'all do know that this area is INTENTIONALLY ZONED for a pretty tall building already:
I'm a big fan of the Chronicle on the whole, but this article is a mess. Planning is making things up as they go along. The same neighbors fighting this fought a more modest proposal. All this handwringing could have been solved if the city approved a 12 story proposal months ago
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You know, I haven’t always supported everything
@MattHaneySF
does, but the tired, lazy, and worn out trope in SF politics from establishment “Progs” that all our disagreements are fueled by “big evil shadowy monied interests” is the most irritating sloppy attack there is.
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My appreciation to the 3 supervisors who voted to uphold the veto:
@JoelEngardio
: No
@RafaelMandelman
: Aye
Myrna Melgar: No
@AaronPeskin
: Aye
@DeanPreston
: Aye
Hillary Ronen: Aye
@Ahsha_Safai
: Aye
@Stefani4CA
: Aye
Shamann Walton: Aye
@conniechansf
: Aye
@mattdorsey
: No
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“San Francisco cannot build the housing it needs without a new approval process for housing. The city must stop fetishizing “neighborhood input” and start prioritizing building homes for people to live.”
Hell yes. Looking forward to
@LondonBreed
’s swearing in tomorrow 😁😁😁
For Mayor Breed to get the housing built that she wants and SF desperately needs. she must appoint an aggressively pro-housing Planning Director,
@SFyimby
,
@rolandlisf
,
@SPUR_Urbanist
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People shouldn’t have to have a supervisor’s office “intervene” in order to rebuild their own property.
San Francisco has made it all but illegal and wildly impractical to build (or rebuild) housing in vast swaths of our city
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There is nothing fucking sacred about the single story Safeway across the street from me.
Hey, SF Progressive Establishment, you wanna know why you keep losing elections?
It’s because this entrenched 20+ year incumbent is your chief spokesperson and Mayoral candidate of choice
Peskin is calling on people to stop the rezoning. He says the connection to the beaches and the bay is sacred and he attacks Wiener for SB 951, moving urbanized SF from the coastal zone. "This is the beginning of building Fontana Towers along the Great Highway."
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Not only is this rank NIMBYism par for the course throughout the *entire* city, but it is enabled constantly by San Francisco's Board of Supes unwillingness to reform the entitlement process for building housing
Let's break this infuriating letter down, bullet point by point.
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Un-fucking believable. This lawlessness has to end.
If someone threatens a parking control officer, arrest them. Period.
San Francisco motorists have become accustomed to the "wild west" and complete lack of enforcement in this city and it's time for that to end.
S.F. parking control officers are revolting against plan for ‘intensive’ ticket sweeps via
@sfchronicle
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I hate this shit. I hate eliminating homes for people that badly need them just to accommodate NIMBY aesthetic gripes.
People are literally living in storage containers for gods sake.
Staff from Mercy Housing speaking now. It sounds like they’re shaving off 5 feet of the project’s height, and including fewer 2 bedroom units to appease the planning commission 😞
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I'm just going to keep posting this 2016 Peskin quote every time someone brings up the painful budget deficits we have to close in the coming years:
JUST IN: The Mayor's Office is asking city departments to plan for budget cuts of 10% to help close a projected deficit of $800M.
The deficit reflects higher spending + the impact of empty offices, stagnating revenue and dwindling federal aid⬇️
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@hknightsf
@MySFPUC
Been an "adopt-a-drain" adoptee since 2016, it's been a good time!
Cleared my drains last night, I have 8 of them, most of the storm drains were clear or had minimal consumer trash nearby
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Gave my comment. General gist was:
1. Thanked them for listening to me and my neighbors asking for D1 reunification with Seacliff and North of Lake St
2. Left wing extremists led by Dean Preston and Hilary Ronen have been sabotaging and discrediting this process at every turn
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@ben_blei
Lol, this is the biggest open secret in the entire Bay Area…
When SF falls flat on its face re: RHNA, I’m thoroughly going to enjoy it when the state sweeps in and takes our land use authority away from us because we’ve demonstrated an irresponsibility to take this seriously
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Get the politics out of housing by getting the SAN FRANCISCO SUPERVISORS OUT OF DISCRETIONARY DECISIONMAKING ON EVERY SINGLE GODDAMN LITTLE PROJECT IN SAN FRANCISCO
So to recap, 1151 Washington had the CEQA appeal upheld but 3832 18th had the CUA appeal denied. You win some you lose some
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I cannot adequately express the level of distaste and that I have for my supervisor, Connie Chan, and the fact that she condones calling myself and my fellow activists within
@SFyimby
“cockroaches”, depicting us as such in her budget protests at City Hall:
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Also Aaron Peskin:
"I'm proud of the NIMBY plan I helped pass in 2007-8 that concentrated a decades worth of housing development in the formerly redlined portions of the city and spared the wealthier western and northern neighborhoods from having to do their fair share":
Aaron Peskin opposes housing in high-resource areas like North Beach and Pacific Heights, which is how you make a city more inclusive. so his choice of language is clever but nonsense
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Hey, San Francisco, how does it feel to get out-progressive-ed by a city that is passing ACTUAL progressive housing policy?
Not just handwaving about absolutism between "100% affordable" or nothing
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Your weekly reminder that SF still has an obscenely high amount of land zoned only for single family homes.
#EndSFHZoning
#BuildMoreHousing
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I voted for
@GavinNewsom
for one reason, and one reason only, because I expected ACTION on his promises to get millions of homes built, not spineless dithering
Gavin, you still have time to do the right thing, step up, twist arms, and get
#SB50
passed 😡
Wiener says: “We’re going to do everything in our power to pass SB 50 tomorrow.” That’s the deadline. It’s an enormous hurdle obviously since he couldn't get the votes today.
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I know this will rankle some, but it needs to be said until the cows come home - our homelessness crisis across America is DIRECTLY tied to our decades long housing shortage.
Period.
This is part of why I volunteer with
@SFyimby
We condemn SCOTUS for further criminalizing homelessness in the Grant's Pass decision today.
Local governments are not providing enough homes for people who need them. Arresting people will not solve homelessness. We need more homes.
Full statement:
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un-fucking believable.
MEDA should never get another local or state dollar ever again. Utterly irresponsible bad actors in our statewide housing shortage.
Give all their funds to
@TNDC
@MissionHousing
and
@BRIDGEhousing
among others
New rule: if you're a San Francisco affordable housing developer testifying in opposition to the extension of a state bill that streamlines affordable housing, that *you have used in the past to advance your own projects*, you never get to use that legislation again.
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This was proposed over 20 YEARS AGO and under the leadership of Mayor
@LondonBreed
it is finally becoming a reality - subsidized housing for teachers and paraprofessionals🙏🏽
Don't forget, it got expedited approval BECAUSE of
@Scott_Wiener
and his landmark law
#SB35
cc:
@SFyimby
Big things are happening in the Outer Sunset! Shirley Chisholm Village, San Francisco's first 100% affordable housing development prioritizing
@SFUnified
educators and staff, is coming along nicely.
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If San Francisco Democrats (and CA Democrats!) cannot figure out how to deliver public projects and programs at SCALE, at effective COSTS and in a TIMELY fashion, we have effectively conceded a core philosophical argument about the role of Government in our society to the GOP
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When my fellow
@SFyimby
activists say that Dean Preston and the other "progressive" members of the Board of Supervisors are anti-housing hacks, this is the kind of thing we're referring to 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
My latest column: In a city rife with housing failures, this is eye-popping. San Francisco supervisors paused the rezoning of land to allow 1,000+ new units for six months for a study. Two years later, the study was never done, wasting time for nothing.
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@JoelEngardio
@RafaelMandelman
@AaronPeskin
@DeanPreston
@Ahsha_Safai
@Stefani4CA
@conniechansf
@mattdorsey
@LondonBreed
Our Board of Supes is out of touch and out of line with what most San Franciscans want - more housing, lower rents, lower home prices
It is incumbent upon us to change this political math by continuing to build the
#YIMBY
movement that says YES to new homes and housing abundance
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We have DONE IT!
@SFyimby
in coalition with
@HACdotorg
@gbeltalliance
@GrowSF
@HabitatGSF
@NorCalCarpU
@SPUR_Urbanist
has finally submitted the signatures to
@SFElections
to put our housing streamlining charter amendment before the voters of San Francisco!
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A friendly reminder to everyone in San Francisco that anti-transit, anti-housing Sandra Fewer is gathering a slate of candidates alongside Gordon Mar and trying to ensure that the SFDCCC stays in the hands of the "conservative, change nothing ever" wing of the SF Democratic Party
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Dean Preston’s former staffer is branching out and infecting other Bay Area towns with their “im just a socialist” NIMBYism?
Im shocked.
This is my shocked face 😮😮😮
#TikTok
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🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
23/24 of the
@SFDemsForChange
on the first drop 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
I have faith too that
@skbarz
will bump Connie Chan 💪🏽
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FINALLY!
My copy of
#NorthBerkeley
has arrived! The latest from
@alfred_twu
, an excellent human being and board game creator among other things, (also running for Berkeley city council).
WHO WANTS TO HELP ME UPZONE THE SHIT OUT OF NORTH BERKELEY BART!?!
#YIMBYBoardGameNight
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He's done it.
@JoelEngardio
has really done it! He's the FIRST candidate in over 22 years to beat an ELECTED INCUMBENT since San Francisco switched back to district elections in 2000!
🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽CONGRATULATIONS
@JoelEngardio
🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
(Preliminary report 11 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽)
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The good people of AD-17 have spoken and they've said resoundingly that they prefer the candidate that has an optimistic vision for our future, one where we build enough housing, invest in mass transit and save our environment from catastrophe by building in our dense cities!
NEW: NEW: First
#AD17
update has
@MattHaneySF
leading
@DavidCamposSF
by 27 points. Looks like Haney could be headed to
#CALeg
and SF Mayor
@LondonBreed
could be making another appointment
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SF residents:
"HOMELESSNESS IS A CRISIS, WE NEED SOLUTIONS, WE NEED ACTION!"
SF City Leadership:
"Okay, let's get these NavCenters built & get these folks off the street"
SF residents:
"NO NOT THAT WAY! We don't want to help homeless people LIKE THAT!"
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Right now
@LondonBreed
controls every appointment to the SFMTA commission and thus the Director who decides fairs and parking meter hours - it’s time to make these decisions out in the open. Our residents deserve transparency.
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@hknightsf
@MySFPUC
Of course, and I didn't pass up an opportunity to push my political agenda in the process 😉
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So I see today SF's far-left establishment has decided to re-up on the "Pepe Silvia" - "everyone I disagree with is a secret Republican" schtick with some coordinated media rollout
(someone must have sent the usual hacks a memo 🙄)
Reference here:
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HAH, this is the same Aaron Peskin who routinely insults my fellow
@SFyimby
friends and allies as “developer shills” and whose political supporters claim that anyone who isn’t sufficiently in lockstep with them as “part of a shadowy cabal that is basically the GOP”
NEW: I’m not saying this will happen. But it very well could. And if it did, people in San Francisco politics would go f🤬cking nuts.
“I’d be lying to you if I did not say that people encourage me to run for mayor,” Supervisor Aaron Peskin said.
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Alternative headline:
“San Francisco Board of Supervisors sticks head in sand, refuses to acknowledge or take seriously crippling housing shortage...resorts to performative wokeness and lies to make their case to continue encasing city in amber”
Long, I know, but accurate 😒
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Just went by the NavCenter that I spent so much time advocating for in 2019 alongside my
@SFyimby
friends 💪🏽
The sky isn’t falling and this neighborhood isn’t sinking into the abyss, we can and SHOULD shelter our homeless neighbors and help them get back up on their feet!
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Nothing has brought me more joy in the last few weeks than the schadenfreude that San Francisco has brought down upon itself by frivolously denying 450 O'Farrell and 469 Stevenson St for nothingburger reasons
...now
@California_HCD
is actually stepping in and baring its teeth 😈
Today the State, via
@California_HCD
, informed SF that the Board of Supervisors may have violated state housing law by rejecting recent projects (eg Stevenson St) & that SF may be violating state law with an overly extensive housing permit process.
Harsh yet entirely appropriate
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@JoelEngardio
@RafaelMandelman
@AaronPeskin
@DeanPreston
@Ahsha_Safai
@Stefani4CA
@conniechansf
@mattdorsey
@LondonBreed
I strongly urge everyone who is frustrated by this vote to join your local
@yimbyaction
chapter and help us build the power we need to make it clear that if you take votes like this, you will have hell to pay with a strong and organized political club:
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Senator
@Scott_Wiener
's SB35 gets the GOODS and everyone who argued disingenuously against it back in 2017 should be considered the discredited hacks that they are and not invited to make public policy on housing anymore
THAT MEANS YOU CCHO, and TODCO and MEDA
SB 35 was enacted in 2018 to streamline housing approvals in California. Our new research finds that since then the law has provided streamlining support to over 18,000 proposed new homes (through 2021). Read more about SB 35's effectiveness so far:
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Y’know, I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say it is indeed pretty fucking racist to insist over and over again that someone should “speak English” when Cantonese is their preferred language.
You don’t get to decide what language someone gets to use for public comment
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@theurv
FYI, they DO have occasional meet & greets with volunteers where they will give you equipment (or you can pick up equipment at SFPUC HQ) and back in 2017 I got to tour the wastewater plant near the zoo, AND I got a reflective jacket + gloves + a rake 💙
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In California, our housing shortage is generated like this...with death from a thousand local community meetings and 10,000 cuts from obscure policies and trite NIMBYism dressed up as "community concerns"
It's time to demand that this state turns the page on this selfishness
Of the hundreds of local governmental meetings I’ve attended, tonight’s Half Moon Bay Planning Commission debate over a 100% affordable housing project for senior farmworkers may be the most infuriating one I’ve ever been to.
And that’s *really* saying something.
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I proudly stand alongside Senator Wiener 🙏🏽🙏🏽
We need to work overtime to kick the Peskin wing of the party out of the SFDCCC this March and then, the Board of Supervisors in November
We don’t need anti-housing zealots in our local government or our Democratic Party!
Aaron Peskin, who wants SF to sue the state to block housing laws, called me “a senator who hates his own Senate district” due to my housing work. 🙄
New homes for the people of San Francisco shows deep love. By contrast, blocking new homes with bogus lawsuits does the opposite.
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YOU LOVE TO SEE IT! 1100 homes on the westside of SF! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
This has been a long fucking time coming. I’ve testified a half dozen times in support of this project over the last 3 years 🤪
It's official: The Board of Supervisors successfully voted in FAVOR of the Balboa Reservoir Project. It has been a slog, through many community input meetings. Thanks to everyone's efforts San Francisco will now see 1,100 housing units to help address our city's housing crisis.
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This would be funny if it wasn't such a comically easy lie to debunk
CONNIE CHAN IS LYING.
THE CITY HAS BEEN UNDERPRODUCING HOUSING FOR DECADES, HER OWN DISTRICT (Richmond District) HAS BARELY BUILT MORE THAN 90+ HOMES IN HER ENTIRE TENURE
During the fragment of the meeting I heard, I listened to some of the most exquisite grandstanding I've ever heard. Supervisor Chan said the optic that San Francisco isn't building enough housing is false and that SF has stepped up time and time again to approve housing.
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Massive congrats
@wafoli
on being appointed to the board of the
@sfmta_muni
!
You'll be amazing and help to make San Francisco a TRULY world class Transit First city!
Excellent pick by
@LondonBreed
couldn't be more excited by this news 🤩🤩🤩
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This is such an idiotically dishonest and misleading take and everyone who is making this argument KNOWS it in the back of their mind
They’re desperate for anything to distract from how utterly unqualified John Hamasaki is to be the DA
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As it turns out, calling everyone you disagree with a "republican" backed by "dark money" might not exactly be a winning message.
Maybe some introspection is in order. Just...maybe 🤔🤔🤔
Empathy goes a long way.
Trashing anyone who disagrees with you as Republican or being manipulated...is the opposite of that.
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@hooleil
I'm Persian, my parents are originally from Iran, and my favorite comfort food is a plate of basmati rice, with a skewer of joojeh kabob + a small bowl of salad shirazi
God, now I'm hungry. I'll probably order from one of the city's few persian restaurants tonight...🤤🤤🤤
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This fucking state, I swear to god 🤬🤬🤬
this behavior is what folks like Aaron Peskin, Dennis Richards, and the entire cabal of NIMBY “save our neighborhoods” gang are empowering when they continue to push their crazy statewide campaign of NIMBYism
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We learned nothing from when VP Cheney would leak anonymously to the NYT, then the NYT would write an article parroting Bush admin talking points, then Cheney would get on the evening news later THAT DAY and make claims, backing them up by saying “the NYT is reporting...” 🤬🤬🤬
It is extraordinary that the NYT allows a President and Secretary of State who lie with reckless abandon to write their headlines for them with absolutely zero evidence.
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I've been reliably told multiple times that "San Francisco is full"
So you can imagine my surprise to read this article this morning that surfaces YET ANOTHER prime lot where we can build mixed use housing + retail or community serving services:
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This is extortion, plain and simple.
San Francisco's government should not be in the business of enabling or financing this racketeering and extortion bullshit that is perpetuated by self-serving "nonprofit leaders" who exploit our excessively discretionary decisionmaking
Thank you
@WilsonKPIX
for covering my story.
Non-profits can focus on uplifting the the community while welcoming newcomers/immigrants like myself. There is no transparency in "proper community engagement" anywhere on the
@sfplanning
codes. 🧵 /1
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At a certain point I’m going to need “journalists” at local SF newspapers to stop doing stenography for Jim Stearns and Jen Snyder and do some actual fucking “journalism”
Read this thread. Read the entirety of it.
I’m doing it, then I’m donating to
@bilalmahmood
🧵Anatomy Of A Smear (sadly, a sequel)
Some may recall my thread about an attempt to smear
@Trevor4SF
, which falsely labeled him "not a teacher" when he was in fact a full-time public school teacher.
Now the same people are doing it again.
Only this time, it's to
@bilalmahmood
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A reminder that 2/3 of these people (not Dean, surprisingly) have endorsed a proposal that would undo the last 10+ years of progress on making it faster and easier to build homes in CA and firmly re-entrench the NIMBYs + “fuck you I got mine” crowd
Just three Bay Area blokes shirking the status quo. Great to see common sense leadership take the helm on both sides of the Bay that can be pro-housing and pro-neighborhoods. I endorse
@AaronPeskin
for mayor of
#SanFrancisco
.
#Aaron2024
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The
@SFElections
department has issued its final report of the night and while it’s unknown how many ballots there are left to count, what is clear tonight is that
@SFDemsForChange
came away with a decisive victory
The SF Democratic electorate is demanding change 💪🏽
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So, I was busy on a conference call...and while I was away I heard the
@sfbos
decided to vote down more badly needed housing yet again
@California_HCD
I hope you're watching CLOSELY because this current version of the SFBOS cannot be trusted to do the right thing on housing
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I’m here for
@JesseArreguin
calling out SF on its bullshit and intransigence around allowing more housing on the Westside of town 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
NO MORE EXCUSES SF, TIME TO REZONE THE WESTSIDE!
Next, Berkeley Mayor and ABAG President Jesse Arreguín was having none of it, correctly pointing out:
“There is a lot of room in the western part of San Francisco…it doesn’t have to be in the Mission and the southeast part of the city. That’s San Francisco’s decision.”
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The NIMBYs throughout the SF Bay Area resort to this kind of bullying all the time - it’s an indictment of a truly toxic political culture
In retaliation for my work to hold the city of San Mateo accountable, I received this email today from local a NIMBY.
I’m just a 25 year old working to make sure everyone in our community has somewhere safe to live… Chris must be scared
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It’s been 7 years since I joined the
#YIMBY
movement and began advocating for pro-housing policies and elected officials, and it feels so fucking vindicating to attend
#YIMBYProm2022
after 7 years of activism and building relationships throughout the Bay Area and beyond
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San Francisco is full, no room for more housing, NOTHING TO SEE HERE 🙃🙃🙃
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SF Education Twitter...welcome to SF Housing Twitter
*backs away slowly*
Breaking: by
@rolandlisf
-- SF school board member Alison Collins and her husband illegally merged two S.F. apartments, city says via
@sfchronicle
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Despite the absolutely atrocious headline from the
@sfchronicle
this is EXCELLENT news from Mayor
@LondonBreed
on pushing
@sfplanning
to think BIGGER about our ongoing rezoning process👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Mayor London Breed wants city planners to scale back some tall heights that would be permitted under the city’s proposal to allow denser housing in many neighborhoods.
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Mark my words, this AD17 race is going to come down to housing policy, and there is only one candidate left in the running that believes we need to build more housing, at ALL levels🏗🏗🏗
Congrats
@MattHaneySF
on the endorsement. See you and your team on the doors soon enough 💪🏽
SF YIMBY (a chapter of
@yimbyaction
) is proud to endorse
@MattHaneySF
for Assembly!
Matt's top committment on housing in the State Assembly is to "End exclusionary zoning policies that stop desperately needed housing from being built."
👏👏👏👏👏
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There were a lot of…interesting lines tonight, but one of the most…interesting ones must have been Supervisor Peskin saying:
“I’ve supported bike lanes before they existed in this city”
That’s gonna need some…aggressive fact checking cc:
@KidSafeSF
@wafoli
@robinpam
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The
#RichmondDistrict
can do so much better than this.
0 affordable units to break ground in 2018
0 affordable units to break ground in 2019
0 affordable units to break ground in 2020
0 affordable units to break ground in 2021
...we must do better 😑
@beyondchron
@MarkLeno
@bestsidesf
@daguilarcanabal
We’re also eagerly hoping to actually having an elected official who will prioritize the rapid addition of housing (affordable and market rate alike) in the
#RichmondDistrict
This current chart of BMR proposals from MOHCD is embarrassing 😖
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