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26 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Saved. Blatant xenophobia backed up by several prominent members of Livable California. All that b.s. about affordability and neighborhood character was really about xenophobia, racism and proto-eugenics the whole time. Who would've guessed.
Who would've guessed except everyone paying attention. Now the question becomes what Berkeleyans are members of this organization? I know several off hand.
Member Rick Hall's response:
my team isn't anti immigrant, thats why I care lol

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28 Jun
.@eb4everyone activists have been checking development applications & blowing the whistle on developers violating state law by not replacing every demolished rent controlled unit with a rent controlled or low income home. Cities need to get their act together and enforce the law.
Every city in the East Bay should require compliance with Senate Bill 330 (@NancySkinnerCA's law which provides demolition protections) as part of their upcoming housing element. Every developer needs to verify before filing if they're compliant with SB 330.
But considering how many developers and city governments in the East Bay seem unaware of the prohibition on rent controlled demolition without RC or Low Income replacements, it shows how useless a lot of tenant protections are if nobody's enforcing them.
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28 Jun
Dear Texans,
The reason working class Californians are moving to Texas in unprecedented levels is because you build more homes than CA. If you let NIMBYs win and deny population growth as they did here, you will have old cities with rich inhabitants and people without homes.
NIMBYism comes from all political sides of the compass but they all do the same thing. If they succeed at reducing the number of homes built they will succeed at pricing you out of your home. Focus housing regulations on enviorment and safety, not aesthetics and culture wars
Study the California housing shortage and study it well. If you emulate this state's housing policies you will see an exodus of 400,000 Californians without degrees and with middle, lower incomes as we have.

ppic.org/blog/whos-leav…
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26 Jun
Obviously corporate landlords are bad but honestly id prefer a big landlord in a large multi-unit vs. a mom n' pop in a small multifamily. In my experience you mail the check and managers seldom visit vs small landlords who treat you like you're their kid and police everything.
If you're a small landlord, particularly if you live on-site: give your tenants some room. Stop reminding them every breathing moment that they only live there with your permission when they pay the damn rent. Big landlords are soulless, i'd rather not opt for them.
I also feel like there's a big gap between the Corporate Landords who are these faceless LLCs where every tenant is a digit in a massive csv file versus Big Landlords where its someone with an LLC who owns numerous properties. I'd prefer the latter among the three.
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25 Jun
Take a look at this thread for how a growing metropolis remains affordable while Western cities are failing. Tokyo did all this in 30 years almost exclusively with the private market, and has a homeless rate 1/4th that of San Francisco despite being 7.5 million more people.
And despite the living in pods myth, Tokyo's average home size is about identical to New York City's
While idiots in the West obsess about land values, Korea says fuck it: 2 million homes in Seoul with private and public developers

m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN202102…
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25 Jun
I dont know why Lookism doesn't get more focus but its absolutely true. Conventionally attractive people, particularly women, get way more positive treatment than conventionally unattractive people in every segment of life wholly unrelated to attraction.
nytimes.com/2021/06/24/opi…
From people stepping aside, to being spoken to politely, to being compliment, to receiving promotions, to winning competitions. Things that have nothing to do with attractiveness will heavily weigh in the attractive persons favor.
I dated a magazine model who told me: I have life on easy mode. I never fear being homeless because i won the genetic lottery and people will always take care of me.
Versus my "unattractive" friends who get insulted constantly, even by family, and have to work their ass off.
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24 Jun
Origins of the late Barbara Shawcroft's infamous "Legs" sculpture at Embarcadero @SFBART station. My favorite piece of public art that nobody could tell what it was. After years of controversy was removed in 2013 due to it being a giant fire hazard.
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BART had completed the giant Embarcadero BART station by 1975 and held a competition for two pieces of art to utilize the ends of the train walls. Two Berkeley artists won. One of them, Shawcroft, had proposed a giant pair of bell-bottom legs made of macrame rope.
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BART failed to approve Barbara's 4,000 lbs macrame until it passed fire retardant tests and material. She claimed it was sexism. BART said it'd be here forever and needed testing. She was also late in completing it, irritating BART further. Here it is under construction.
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