Eli Alvarado
@EliasOakland
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@101Darwins
@jessieiswise
yeah and if they picked another site a bunch of NIMBYs would come out and oppose that too. they’d even trot out arguments like “why here when there are other sites?” this is 1000+ publicly owned units for students and homeless people, and the “resistance” should end its tantrum.
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@McNamaraDynasty
granted I’m no math genius but I am a bit confused as to how a 42-point victory resulted in a 56 point swing on point differential.
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stancil derangement continues to produce amazing takes like “pointing out that the media makes editorial decisions that drive perceptions of national figures and predicting how that might play out in a specific situation is fundamentally fascist”
This is a fundamentally fascist way to view other people. The idea that everyone except you is just an NPC with no inner monologue or foundational beliefs, that only thinks what they are told to think by the media is really a disturbing way to view your fellow humans.
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@katewillett
do you disagree with the actual substance of the statement, which is that it’s easier for someone with greater job security to show solidarity?
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@E__C___
that’s great for you. it also doesn’t come close to a good reason to block construction of hundreds of badly needed units of housing for students and the currently-homeless.
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@Prado_Reports
@UCBerkeley
@CityofBerkeley
actually building actual brick and mortar housing is far superior to a an explicit policy of “just have UC students live out of their cars.”
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@bryanculbertson
you keep dishonestly calling it a park. it isn’t. it’s just a publicly owned lot and a closed construction zone where a small group sought to physically block construction of publicly owned housing for students and the homeless, and the state was right to remove those people.
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“we don’t need housing, students can just live out of their cars” But From The Left.
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@JovankaBeckles
you are standing with a small group of individuals that explicitly seeks to block the construction of badly needed housing for students and the homeless. that tells me you’re principally interested in holier than thou posturing and belong nowhere near policymaking authority.
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@katharinegk
if attempting to build publicly owned housing for students and the homeless on publicly owned land and protecting that land from individuals who explicitly seek to physically block that housing’s construction is “losing the plot,” they should lose the plot more often.
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@byJoshuaDavis
and they’ve permitted a ton of new housing that has been built. turns out building a bunch of housing is good for the exact groups the “no new housing til the revolution” types claim to care about.
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@bryanculbertson
if you’d rather block people than stop being outright dishonest in your advocacy against 1000+ units of publicly housing for students and the homeless, that’s your right.
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@plattMSP
much better to leave the house, sit on a train (or worse, in traffic) for 30-90 minutes each way, go to an office that you don’t leave, and then return to the house exhausted to do the same thing again.
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@TOsbestrentals
@DaveDologite
@sam_d_1995
@kiangoh
“all new housing has to be 100% for the homeless” is a recipe for creating a lot more homelessness.
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@seisinenfeoffin
@vision63
@SFBART
a suspect whose face—as captured on a surveillance camera in a restricted area—was *already published yesterday when they were looking for him* because, again, he needlessly crippled the entire BART system and cost a lot of workers a lot of time and money in the process.
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@katewillett
YIMBY logic would entail removing restrictions on physician licensing that enrich incumbents but don’t protect patients. your logic gets us to “leave the current incumbent-enriching regime in place but no new licenses unless the doctor agrees to provide 20% of services for free.”
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@opinonhaver
well, but have you considered that these students should just live in their cars instead? bet you didn’t think of that.
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@sheangelguy
@E__C___
again, we are talking about university owned housing explicitly reserved for students and the homeless. your friend should knock it off.
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@opinonhaver
hey now, the good professor cohen also aspires to stop eco-apartheid (by which he means apartments) and raise awareness of “luxury bike lanes” (an actual term he used in academic writing).
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@katewillett
just so we’re clear here, your position as somebody who thinks solidarity is important is that factual statements about potential obstacles to solidarity don’t matter?
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@TheBdNvestments
@loomdoop
in this case it refers to housing that will be built by and for an instrumentality of the State of California on public land. seems about right.
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@seisinenfeoffin
@SFBART
they already posted a photo showing his face when they were looking for him, there was zero reason for him to cripple BART for hours (screwing a lot of workers in the process), and posting this photo is at the very bottom of reasonable criticisms of BART’s response.
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@bryanculbertson
it isn’t a park, that people refer to it using a moniker that includes the word “park” is irrelevant, and it’s unfortunate that you insist on mendacity and dishonesty. if you feel your position requires persistent dishonesty, you should reevaluate it.
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@f_j_j_
when we build the 1000+ units of publicly owned housing for students and homeless people plus open space that you evidently oppose, we can include a nice commemorative plaque. build the housing.
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@JovankaBeckles
comparing removal of individuals who are serving to block construction of housing for students and homeless people on public property and have no right themselves to be on the property to slave patrols is yet another sign you belong nowhere near the state senate.
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@CaralhoPhilly
@ValerieRoss14
my favorite val fact is that it took her until earlier this year to say anything negative about amy wax on here, guess the racism of speed bumps and curb bulbouts is much more pressing than the racism of a colleague who openly admits to bias and discrimination against students.
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@SFHTUnion
actually building housing for students and people who are currently homeless is nowhere near genocide and it is unserious and frankly offensive to equate the two.
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@sam_d_1995
@JovankaBeckles
it isn’t even a park. It’s a UC-owned lot that a bunch of hippies started calling “people’s park,” but it has never been dedicated for use as parkland. it’s just a lot, and a closed construction zone.
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@realsaadasad
@AshDHarrington
i would be astounded to learn that more than 1% of properties currently taxed based on an assessed value of less than half FMV due to prop 13 are being rented out at rates meaningfully below market. it’s a big state so surely there are some but it just cannot be that many.
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@mnolangray
i agree but also anyone who does this should understand that in part because of how easy it is to get appointed you will end up encountering some REAL pieces of work should you serve. people should still do it, just, you know, set realistic expectations.
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@katewillett
where did OP “use” that specific terrible thing “to put a million people in a cage”? looks to me as though OP’s asking what should happen to people who do that specific terrible thing and you’re yet again willfully mischaracterizing others’ words.
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@JonahGottlieb
i hope the people you reference understand that the alternative isn’t some other site gets slotted in and completed on the same timeline, it is delaying this project *at least* an incremental 5 years including due to the opposition *any* site would inevitably draw.
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@sp6runderrated
tenant unions and similar groups did some really good work during the foreclosure crisis, at least in my then-neck of the woods (I know because I worked with them) but the left-NIMBY turn after that has been awful.
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@maxdubler
@MarxGoldberg2
wait and how does the “genuine grass roots” opposition here differ materially from the “grassroots” opposition to any other project?
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@bryanculbertson
@JonahGottlieb
agreed, its too bad that people refused to leave public land on which they had no right to remain indefinitely because they wanted to stay and block housing construction. by doing that, they necessitated the use of force to remove them. they have agency too.
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@HalSinger
@tolles
the article, to which you conspicuously did not link, explains why: it provides a pretty accessible example of a much broader problem.
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@Josiphas
@quantian1
you oppose 1000+ units of publicly owned housing for students and homeless people.
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@Prado_Reports
it is a shame that people throwing a tantrum over publicly owned housing for students and the homeless refused to leave the property on which they were explicitly trying to block construction and had no right to be, thereby requiring significant resources to remove them.
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@sheangelguy
@E__C___
(more generally, yes, housing costs are through the roof. perhaps your friend wouldn’t have to pay $1k for a spot in a living room, though, if an alliance of holier than thou purported lefties and reactionary homeowners hadn’t blocked housing throughout the region for decades.)
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@freemarketfail
@maxdubler
@cayimby
do you think that TODCO’s impact on society should be celebrated?
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@ABC7Chicago
he should release his application so that we can all see exactly how compelling an applicant he was.
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east bay DSA member opposes making the top public university in the world accessible to more working class students because they might make noise, what an embarrassment.
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@carroll_fife
we expect a functioning 911 system, Carroll, you don’t get brownie points for taking steps towards giving us something we should’ve had all along—especially when you’ve actively hamstrung efforts to get Oakland nice things, like waterfront parks and a ballpark.
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@muddewaters
@pedavi
@TonyClimate
@Seamus01952928
who, specifically, predicted that Miami Beach would be “20 feet underwater” in 2024?
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@HalSinger
@KevinTartis
are fixed costs relevant to whether a given unit of housing gets built in the first place Hal?
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@JovankaBeckles
@th0ughtvect0r
no, you are opposing 1000+ units of publicly owned housing for students and the homeless, and according to you, you’re doing that because it’s more important to maintain a small encampment and some rubbish heaps indefinitely. i look forward to voting against you this fall.
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@MarxGoldberg2
@AstreiaTales
@maxdubler
the city is not building anything. and am I understanding correctly that the “legitimate concerns” are (1) “I support housing, just not this housing in this spot” and (2) UC is building housing for the homeless where a far smaller number of homeless people take refuge?
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@pastichepsyop
no actually we should not “preserve” a small encampment and some rubbish heaps indefinitely at the expense of 1000+ units of publicly housing for students and the homeless. we can put up a commemorative plaque. build the housing.
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@TalkinBaseball_
2017, when they first proposed an Oakland site, was not 18 years ago. and they hadn’t even talked to that site’s owner before proposing it.
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@hausaufGAGA
@katewillett
you could not pick a worse source on this subject. a little over a year ago a former Jeopardy contestant YIMBY correctly observed that Kate was a gentrifier in SF’s mission district. since then, she has jumped on here daily to just straight up lie about YIMBY types.
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@TheBdNvestments
@loomdoop
the rental price and your NIMBY allies’ success in gumming up the works via bullshit litigation do not change the reality that this is public land and the housing will be publicly owned.
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@revhowardarson
@opinonhaver
so is the correct anti-imperialist position “nuke Mexico,” which the state department presumably opposes?
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@uhshanti
@kiangoh
supporting these 1000+ units of publicly owned housing for students and homeless people is a no brainer, like condemning a slumlord that kills dogs with radiator steam and evicts tenants over three-figure unpaid rent yet you can’t bring yourself to do either. you’re full of shit.
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@carroll_fife
🦗 🦗 🦗
unsurprising that even after I answered all your questions, you won’t answer mine about your (lack of actual) support for a policy to which you devote a full website section. you are a full of shit charlatan with no business anywhere near a policymaking role.
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@DrakesBeer
dropping out of Fans Fest two days before the event is really low, you’ve lost me and my family as customers.
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@RezaC1
@JoelBarciauskas
@GovKathyHochul
@TheTonyAwards
not sure but it certainly isn’t as-of-yet-unimplemented congestion pricing you fuckin clown
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@the_good_matty
@yhdistyminen
you might have something approaching a point if his critique were directed to the reliability of this particular sample, but in reality, he denied the legitimacy of sampling in totality. you know this but decided to obfuscate because you are also an anti-housing dead ender.
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@antidogmatist
it is quite literally publicly owned housing for the homeless and students. you’re entitled to oppose that, but be honest about what you’re opposing.
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@f_j_j_
thanks but I’ll take my advice from people who don’t oppose 1000+ units of publicly owned housing for students and homeless people.
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@GeorgistSteve
holy shit, a real live “it works in practice, but does it work in theory” in the wild!
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@ChrisVannini
there is one conference, singular, that ripped apart the PAC-12. the Big 12 took advantage of the situation, but the Big Ten created it.
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@merrittLocal
@E__C___
i have no reason to doubt and am not particularly interested in questioning this person’s experiences because even if they’re understating the real importance of people’s park to them personally, blocking over 1000 units based on that experience would be the height of solipsism.
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@jasonscheer
@era_neutral
you’re saying that Cal racked up a bunch more natties than Arizona despite lacking any dedication to athletics? seems like there’s some untapped potential that a major conference might find attractive.
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@carroll_fife
because it took you, quite literally, years to do something about an obvious problem that harmed public safety—which most people agree is a basic government function—and during those years, you went out of your way to hamstring efforts to build nice things for people in Oakland.
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@UpzonedHimbo
@Blizzard_Advsry
@TheEclecticRad
@yhdistyminen
@JuicyJuuce
@Pest174
@BensRealissimum
@NoMoreBikeLanes
@jibreeladonna
@fuelgrannie
@DukeandDukeCB
@dangainor
@Cosby
@QuietOurStreets
@BadaBingManager
@RivasAD
@AsVacation
@AllIsFreeForMe
I think I already asked you but I’m genuinely curious, what’s it like to have to hold your head up perfectly straight all the time because your brain will leak out of your ears if you tilt it to the side?
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@AidanVote
it is not a public park. you know this, and are yet again being dishonest to justify your opposition to 1000+ units of publicly owned housing for students and the homeless. you are, objectively, a pro-homelessness liar.
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@TheBdNvestments
@loomdoop
your allies who filed bullshit lawsuits to block housing for homeless people and students, which you also oppose, are NIMBYs. hence “your NIMBY allies.”
but also you probably are a NIMBY.
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@Misanthropist_X
@sfstandard
@AnnieGaus
lol no competent city attorney would challenge this, the legislature could strip SF of its zoning powers completely if it wanted to.
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@telegraphforppl
if you support some abstract ideal housing that isn’t actually on the table and oppose housing that actually stands a chance of being built you do not actually support housing. also the redeveloped property will include green space and UC is building on other nearby lots too.
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@opinonhaver
better off trying to convince nonvoters that it’s worth actually voting, there are a lot more of them and any successful strategy on that front seems likely to also peel off some third party voters.
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@blakeferguson48
do you have any actual basis to dispute the content of the piece other than “the guy who runs the organization that published the piece, who may or may not have had any involvement in the piece itself, has opinions that I probably don’t like”?
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@tar_xvzf
the vile YIMBYs are muddying the discussion by pointing out that the Sunset is a majority homeowner neighborhood with a $1.5m average home value and also the linear nature of time. unbelievable.
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@MarxGoldberg2
@AstreiaTales
@maxdubler
if those are the concerns, the first is so overused as to be facially illegitimate, at least in contexts where there is a real, concrete, implementable proposal on the table. the second is incoherent. and you still haven’t answered the other question.
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@CarterLavin
@ChrisByBike
no actually it’s good to use state force to remove people from public land on which they have no entitlement to be and which they are refusing to leave in order to block publicly owned housing for students and homeless people.
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@carroll_fife
(interestingly, although those “private alternatives” would have been completely useless at dealing with sideshows, they would have lined the pockets of your nonprofit sector backers, which probably explains your interest in pushing them.)
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@katewillett
and yet you can’t seem to actually make the case that YIMBYs are harmful without straight up lying about YIMBY orgs’ priorities (like repealing Article 34 and enacting social housing legislation) or pushing BernieBro level smears!
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@evanlanga84
@HousingSpock
@mattyglesias
lol cities absolutely are not sovereign, at least not in the United States. in every single US state, cities are creatures of state law.
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@yhdistyminen
she couldn’t make it clearer that her housing/land use takes all flow from her being mad that Jeopardy Sam correctly called her a gentrifier without her coming out and directly stating as much.
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@BrenBartholomew
@_aaaqqq_
@ClaytonNall
do most cults have, like, links to reputable reporting that backs up their factual assertions?
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@crcracin
@drmiller166
@ChrisVannini
seems like it would be a lot easier if you had one cut that showed the signs and the play without the need to match things up manually, which is what Michigan obtained via its longstanding illegal in-person scouting program.
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