"The basic problem is that we don't have enough housing... We're under-zoned for multifamily housing." Picks on Montgomery County, MD. Yolanda Cole from @UrbanLandInst at #NPC20atHome
Art Rodgers, planner for DC, is talking about great engaging the community around the status quo and history of housing and zoning in the city. Got to a consensus in all parts of the city that the distribution of low-income housing was unfair
Never get sick of listening to Paul
"This is one step toward expanding housing choice, which is one step toward addressing housing affordability, which is one step toward reducing racial disparities."
👀
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
He says it's about an idealistic city council running into the "legislative process" and "public opposition." The real story is of a progressive city council super-majority, trying to do the right and popular thing, and unelected appointees of appointees blocking democracy.
In 2015, a Minneapolis police officer shot and killed Jamar Clark, and thousands of residents, including first-term council member Lisa Bender, protested outside the Fourth Precinct. Council President Barb Johnson scolded them. minnpost.com/politics-polic…
"The point of public golf courses isn't to make a profit"
obviously! the point is to take money from the people who rent boats and bikes and eat at restaurant/concessions and give that money to an older, whiter, richer crowd
If the foe is public golf courses, I will absolutely join forces with people who hate to pay for parking. Don't think for a second that I won't. I have 𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔬𝔩𝔳𝔢
I worry that closing the racial gap in homeownership, without fixing segregation and property tax assessment first, would be ineffective or counterproductive as a way to build Black wealth
I recall some dopey 22-year-old named like Tanner or Carter with like 10k following his "NEOLIB3RAL" account spastically gushing about how Ben Carson was a YIMBY. Wonder what he's up to now. Hopefully not in any position that requires critical thinking or judgment
Haha
"crime and chaos"
"Radical social engineering"
"Stack-and-pack"
Suburbs "grow organically"
They fit all the dumb tropes into 700 words! You have to recognize the impressive economy of language.
Happy to hear in today's Mpls Housing Advisory Committee meeting about the work starting to legalize single room occupancy housing. I volunteered to meet with city staff to give input. lims.minneapolismn.gov/File/2020-00703
Single room occupancy (or rooming houses, or residential hotels) is a vital form of housing that can let people who would otherwise be sleeping outside have more privacy, security, and dignity (and would just be a good fit for others, too).
SROs were vital parts of American cities through WWII, then SROs were destroyed by urban renewal projects in the '50s and '60s. Around the same time, cities rewrote zoning codes to ban them. This was downtown Minneapolis:
Everyone's feelings are valid, but I think there's a widespread anxiety about culturally catastrophic capital rushing into poor neighborhoods when the much more likely future is just payday loans, vape shops, and vacancy as far as you can see. I'm worried about that, too
I'm trying to process "the area, which survived the construction of Interstate 94 and the Green Line"