Tech didn't ban housing. Tech didn't give landowners tax breaks. Tech didn't force S.F. to add 13 new employees for every 1 new home last decade. Tech didn't make the State require cities to build housing, it's been doing that since 1981--when the housing crisis actually started
Tech didn't help, it was like pouring gasoline on a forest fire, but it didn't create the housing crisis and 48 Hills knows that. Hell the housing crisis has gone national now, no longer just a Bay Area phenomenon. Larger systemic issues than some dot-com company or startup
At some point, I thought it be when homes got into the multi-millions but I guess not, we're going to have to start questioning if our current model of home and property ownership, infinite shortages and speculation, birthed out of the post-war era, is a sustainable way to live.
I criticize the tech industry and tech culture *constantly* but look. This isn't 2011, this is 1983. People saw it coming
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I hate repeating that this is a housing shortage but literally all indicators are identical. We're approaching WW2 levels of home scarcity yet we're not fighting the Axis and we have no nat'l rent control. The young can't move out their parents homes into homes that dont exist
I read the news story but used an old chart. Here's the 2020 version. We aren't approaching WW2 level housing woes, we've now surpassed it--in the number of 18-29 year olds living at home with their parents.
We have an aging population living in housing built for a post-war baby boom and then we stopped and now we're just out. The only ones who win here are speculators when everyone's competing for the few crumbs left.
Hey if white women ever wanna feel bad I charge a $1,000 discount over Saira Rao's prices for the service
"Humiliate white women and get paid for it? What's there not to like?"
Saira Rao's "call white people racist and get paid" grift is actually very popular in many sectors and industries via consultants. White liberals who'd rather talk than do equity hire some consultant offering "anti-racist services" as like a performative self lash
I live in Berkeley and was raised in East Oakland and West Berkeley but thanks for playing. "Negro Piedmont" is a reference to Berkeley's Black community. It's always this caricature of some weird West Oakland poverty tourist constantly nipping at my heels.
Sure Dave could've just done a bit of research on what a "housing element" is and understood that our mostly Oakland based organizers along with fair housing orgs work to ensure affluent suburbs follow fair housing law but better to conjure up this instead
Incredible investigative journalist skills. Its not like I was in the news a whole 6 days ago pushing the city of Piedmont to build low income housing.
My hot take on the Muni free fares is that in the United States with farebox recovery for buses so low if there's any mechanism possible to marginally make buses more competitive than cars then the U.S. should do it.
Free Muni will be a good pilot to test if ridership will increase. If it truly doesnt work, the ridership will reflect that
If free transit returns Muni to pre-pandemic levels and doesn't exceed it then that would be an indicator of ineffectiveness. I would've made certain Muni lines free though for a more thoughtful experiment.
Andrew Yang and the Times Square stuff reminds me of when I say I like Fisherman's Wharf and everyone in San Francisco gets mad at me.
I get it, you value yourself by how much of a true local you really are and performatively hate tourists. I dont care so I can enjoy things :)
I like meeting people from all over the world at Fisherman's Wharf. I like occasionally posing for pictures or taking some for someone else. I like being asked by tourists whats the best spots in San Francisco. I like all the sweets and carnival food and historic streetcars.
"Imma true local cuz I go to Dolores Park like all the other hipsters and stare at the skyline all day."
Okay cool, thanks. At least be interesting and go to a better more secluded park like Buena Vista or Grandview.
Weimar Germany not only expropriated housing and imposed strict rent control but also: "removed restrictions against attic and basement dwellings, and relaxed zoning and construction standards." - Silverman, Housing Crisis in Weimar Germany (same source Jacobin is using).
The Jacobin article is good but the greater picture about the aggressive rent controls and buy outs by the state was that these were stop-gap measures to alleviate the housing shortage and again, that the failure of Capitalism was the inability to produce *enough* housing.
The Social Democrats used the 1924 rent tax to subsidize housing construction and thus all non-partially or fully subsidized housing by contractors was dwarfed by the high density standards which private developers couldn't build w/o public assistance.