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10 Jun, 30 tweets, 7 min read
wrote a picture book on California housing - "Rhena the House Makes New Friends" read it in the thread or at the link! sites.google.com/view/alfredtwu… 1/ Rhena the House Makes New Friends - A California Housing Sto
For those who believe that our best days are still to come...

...and that wherever the country is headed,
California will get there first.
2/ Story and Art by Alfred Twu Published by Alfred Twu in Berk
3/ Our story begins many years ago, in a small town near the ci
4/ The first people to live in Rhena the House was a young fami
5/ The families living next door in Alex and Bob also had kids,
6/ As the years passed, the Kid grew older, went to high school
7/ Before long all the kids on the street had grown up and move
8/ One day, Rhena saw a familiar face walk by. It was The Kid
9/ Meanwhile, the people who didn’t want to pay property taxe
10/ Finally, the Mayor had an idea. If the people living in the
11/ The people working at the computer company also needed place
12/ Luckily for Rhena, before the bulldozers got to her, a group
13/ It did not. On the other side of the highway, more business
14/ “Two million and a half!” shouted a third person. “Tw
15/ Of course, the rich man did not move in himself. He already
16/ A couple years later, Rhena saw a van park on the street. A
17/ The family in the house next door remembered meeting the Gra
18/ The neighbors loved the cottage. “It’s so cute and cozy
19/ The backyard behind Rhena the House was empty. “If I boug
20/ As the two argued on, the town’s housing crisis got worse
21/ Finally the town decided that something had to be done about
22/ After a few more years of debate, the town finally allowed a
23/ Across the highway from the backyard houses, big apartment b
24/ a street with residential buildings of different shapes and
25/ While California has long been an expensive place to live,
To learn more, I recommend reading “California’s High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences” by the Legislative Analyst’s Office.
lao.ca.gov/Publications/D…
Learn more about Senate Bill 9 (#SB9), a proposed state law to allow lot splits and duplexes. cayimby.org/sb-9/
Learn about Portland, Oregon's Residential Infill Project, a 2020 city law to allow more homes in neighborhoods. sightline.org/2020/08/11/on-…
PDF of "Rhena the House Makes New Friends" drive.google.com/file/d/1VyeUKd…
shareable webpage with the book as a slideshow, links to the pdf, links to order a copy ($8.27 each) sites.google.com/view/alfredtwu…

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8 Jun
Enjoying the warm summer weather and the beautiful hills without eucalyptus trees. #euclife
Walnut Creek has been building lots of housing around the BART station in the last few years. Quite a variety of styles.
There's also a new extended-stay hotel near the Walnut Creek BART. More cities ought to build these, it would reduce the number of regular apartments being turned into corporate rentals. (Berkeley has one under construction downtown right now)
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8 Jun
California's legislature started 2021 with over 100 housing bills. About half are still active. The rest may return next year, or in rare cases, later this year as a gut-and-amend of an unrelated bill. Details in thread & at alfredtwu.medium.com/2021-californi… PDF at dropbox.com/s/zdhhg3qf495c… Please visit tinyurl.com/2021housingbills for the text versi
Wildfires and earthquake preparedness: the direction we're going in is hardening existing buildings, and tougher codes for new buildings. SB12, SB63, and AB1329 are still active.
Coastal zones: the remaining active bill is #AB500 to encourage housing near coast, especially if affordable and/or near transit. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billText…
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1 Jun
you laugh, but China basically borrowed California's flawed property tax system and dialed it up to 11 - taxes are based on original purchase price, homeowners pay nothing at all. Trying to change it is now a major headache for the government. researchgate.net/publication/32…
Commercial property gets taxed at "1.2% of 70-90% of original value" which is almost the same as California property tax of 1% of purchase price. Private residential houses aren't taxed at all. what could go wrong?
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Without property taxes, China relies on leasing vacant land for development to fund local government. This system stops working when cities stop growing. The government has been trying to shift to a regular property tax system for over a decade. chinadaily.com.cn/a/202102/01/WS…
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It’s time to go all in on growth. We got to build lots of wind & solar, etc. When we get to 100% clean energy, will we shut down what will then be the country’s largest industry, or will we keep building and grow incomes & the economy 7.5% a year to 4 times its current size? 1/ A person stands in a Statue of Liberty style position holdin
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Installation of new wind & solar has been growing exponentially. To replace oil/coal/gas fast enough, it needs to be. When that’s done, we’re not going to lay off millions of people mid-career - we’re going to keep going. 🚀🌕 3/
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2 Apr
Today in vaccine eligibility expansion: Alabama announces April 5 as the day when everyone 16 and up can sign up for vaccines. Additional counties opening up in Hawaii as well. 1/
With the state expecting a 50% increase in doses delivered, Alabama - which had already opened eligibility to more than half the state - set Monday as the day the rest are eligible. wsfa.com/2021/04/02/ala…
Another one of Hawaii's islands will also start vaccinating everyone 16 and up on April 5. khon2.com/coronavirus/bi…
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1 Apr
More states moving up the day when vaccines are available to everyone 16 & up: Wyoming did it yesterday, Maine moved up to 4/7, Washington announced 4/15 and Virginia 4/18. Thread 1/
Previously Wyoming had been estimating around the 12th, but decided to open it up to everyone yesterday. wyomingpublicmedia.org/post/wyoming-o…
Maine had earlier announced April 19, moved it up to April 7 pressherald.com/2021/04/01/mai…
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