Kate has been tweeting criticisms of YIMBY 4 the past few days highlighting that massive fraud w/a lot of the material thats been shared previously. Whats noticeable in the replies & QT beyond just the yt bro responses, is the glee they express in piling on. 🧵
You’ll get a familiar eye-roll from everyone who criticizes YIMBY here: be they quiet academics, housing justice activists, or the few courageous politicians. Folks accustomed to robust debate on public policy on the left will say it’s unlike anything they’ve ever experienced. /2
Folk get into knock-down drag out fights over school vouchers & charter schools. Yet even in that most heated issue, you won’t find ppl who universally say how toxic engagement on the issue online is.

So why on this?

Simply: the toxicity/the Proud Boys energy is a necessity. /3
There’s a lot more to be said about this but just imagine what it takes to deflect energy that really should be directed towards regulating the worlds most powerful industry (finance & real estate), into a belief that deregulating such industry is a moral imperative. /4
And there’s the overlay of those most harmed being BIPOC, low-income, and marginalized & those most advantaged being white gentifiers sum who feelings are hurt b/c they arent greeted as welcomed colonizers n the formerly redlined communities that are now “cool”/“up and coming” /5
It’s quite a feat to cast BIPOC tenants/activists fighting to stay in their homes and maintain their community in a white supremacist capitalist society into the enemy - or “left NIMBY” as they say.

But YIMBY accomplish it using a familiar playbook. /6
Other anti-left use similar strategies.

e.g. fighting racial reparative policy by casting those who are for it as the actual racists (“reverse racism”). Similar to YIMBY, such relies on a false moral appeal/crass simplism to casts victims as powerful oppressors. /7
Shutting down debate & using “10 word answers” h/t #TheWestWing on stuff that require paragraphs and convos (any number of which make the YIMBY argument crumble) is a major tactic. It’s also why Twitter in particular is a useful medium for them. /8
See the “Just build more housing/legalize apts” responses.

Ok…for whom?

Where?

What a/b the permitted units not built?

When/why would the market forces ever finance projects that cuts into their margins?

What a/b when said catalytic projects make stuff less affordable? /9

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Jun 13
Speaking of reparative, we’re going to be seeking to define “reparative housing plan” for Black people in California as part of recommendations that go to the State Reparations Task Force.

(Trust me YIMBY ain’t gonna like it.) #SelfDetermination /1
The point I emphasize in every reparations convo on housing don’t just think a/b the cash: regulations can be far more widespread & quickly implemented.

As an example even if you gave every Blk person $250,000 for down payment on a house: in Crenshaw the homes now go for $1M. /2
To be clear we’ll take & need 💵…but even w/it Black n’hoods would remain inaccessible & vulnerable to displacement.

Tearing down barriers to stable Black housing & communities, combat housing discrimination, requires ADVANTAGING Blk ppl (above non-Blks) & over corporations. /3
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Jun 12
And they balk when we point out they’re just the latest in a long history of racist land grabbers

“I’m not a colonizer! I just want to remake this occupied urban core of BIPOC to cater to me w/housing only folk like me can afford, & take homes of/price out/current residents.” /1
Colonialism, Trail of Tears, urban renewal & now YIMBYism. Each were/are violent interventions to remake/replace marginalized communities/ppl. The toxic energy #DensityBros exude online is a mere feature of a patriarchal white supremacist org & Manifest Destiny ethos.
/2
They believe that THEY have a right to an occupied city, & at best remain indifferent to the basic human needs of the much less privileged for housing and community (in the broad sense of the term) and at worst believe they must be violently removed. See the Boudin recall. /3
Read 4 tweets
Mar 3
Yea I saw this list & was like: 5 mins ago working class & moderate income folks could buy a home w/a pool in Chino Hills.

Chino Hills median home price in 2012 was $370k ($453K in 2022 dollars).

That these places have become expensive (& how) is a the story. /1
I always saw Cerritos as a working class API town (some folks who owned & worked the counter at the beauty shops, nail salons, liquor stores in SoCntralLA ironically).

Weird to any1 who has been here more than a min to lump these cities in same bag as Palos Verdes Estates. /2
This isn’t to say whether Chino Hills is doing enuf now (dunno & they probably arent)…but rather to say a lot of now expensive towns in SoCal are new towns never built to be an exclusionary white enclaves. Heck Chino Hills didn’t even get built out until the late ‘80s/‘90s…
/3
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Mar 2
Expect a lot to be made of this. But it remains unfortunately simplistic (zoning in Malibu has nothing to do with educational outcomes in South Central), & misses the opportunity to provide a racial impact frame in the context of the current housing market & policy discussion. /1
What has occurred (& regrettably (through my very quick skim of the report) is @oandbinstitute has fallen in the trap of focusing on exclusionary zoning & not exclusionary communities. This framing is the product of loads of RE industry $$$/YIMBY to reshape the housing debate. /2
The @oandbinstitute report is also regrettably silent on the racial and economic impacts of reforming zoning in marginalized communities that is pretty well shown to exacerbate current inequalities. #ZonedOut is over a 5 years old. /3
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Dec 17, 2019
So lets talk a/b the complexities of "buy the block" & its liberal application and invocation of Nipsey Hussle's name, especially when claiming such is "anti-gentrification" or what Nipsey was doing.

This article has been making the rounds. A thread. /1

la.curbed.com/2019/12/12/209…
First a point: Black ownership does not equal anti-gentrification. Two tenant clinics per month are operated out of @CrenshawSubway's @TheUmojaCenter most of the complaints tenants make r against mom-and-pop landlords. This is a not so quiet secret out there. /2
@CrenshawSubway @TheUmojaCenter I know hella Blk landlords who specifically claim they charge market-rate rents 4 apts they inherited free-and-clear, or paid a fraction of the cost 4. They r enjoyin a certain lifestyle profiting (in some cases mightily) off someone else. Nothing special or unique a/b them. /3
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Oct 7, 2019
Going thru Dem presidential candidate housing platforms

Does anyone seek 2 severely regulate/ban big investors (private equity/foreign wealth) or small (flippers) that are manipulating the housing market?

Do they even provide lip-service?

Let’s see...

#ItsTheSpeculationStupid
Let’s start w/the currently considered gold standard: @BernieSanders #HomesForAll

Sum talk a/b Wall Street investors but is his proposed solution strong enuf?

Also, he’s unfortunately in the blanket upzoning camp so w/flipper tax isn’t that 1 step fwd but 2 steps back?
.#BernieSanders2020 calls for natl rent control & that will definitely curb some speculation, but it is without vacancy control. See Oakland, San Francisco, Berkeley & Santa Monica for the effects of strong rent control without vacancy control.
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