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Damien Goodmon Profile picture
@damienISgoodmon
Jun 17, 2022 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
YIMBYs really talk like they were all born in 2014.

Pre-2008 crisis large swaths of America’s major cities had “affordable homeownership.”

What has changed is the movement & creation of industry (esp those for migrant workers), and assetization/hypercommodification of housing.
Phoenix is in a building spree & has loads of developable land

Austin bldg is outpacing pop growth

SF has seen a 6% pop decline

Detroit pop been declining for decades & has 24% vacancy!

Yet they ALL featured big home prices increases pre-rate rise.

#ItsTheSpeculationStupid
I feel like every conversation with a YIMBY should begin with: “Are you old enough to remember when Black people could afford to buy a home in the inner city?”

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May 15, 2023
As I said the day after 2016 election, the problem is not the racist, xenophobic, anti-LGBTQ+ & otherwise deplorable carnival barkers (Trump & now clearly DeSantis.)

Problem is we live in a country where tens of millions who vote for them walk among us.
washingtonpost.com/education/2023…
They are the cops, the judges, the loan officers, the teachers, the supervisors, the armed neighbors.

Now I'll add: disabuse urself of belief that they'll wise up.

Insurrections must be put down. (And not even ur most loud mouth congressional Dem is prepared to do that.)
To those who think I'm calling for an armed civil war: I am not.

Rather, I'm saying intentional, disproportionate, harmful response will work.

Disarm them. Recall them. General strike them. Move all ur money out of their banks. Cut their revenue. Boycott their biz.
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May 15, 2023
So much can be said a/b a person who thinks that their validation comes by proving themselves, teaching or even engage anonymous (mostly arrogant yt boi) folk on Twitter on ANY topic. 🤣

Let’s start with: u must not be doing 💩.

Some of us have done stuff & do stuff everyday.
And speaking of 💩, perhaps I need to point out that half of my engagement on these toxic Twitter housing streets occurs while I’m in the loo or simultaneous to watching tonybaker videos. 🤷🏾‍♂️
Look at how disturbed they get that I am dismissive of them.

Like seriously, what have u done to earn the respect/time of my engagement?

If u have shown that u r unserious, arrogant and/or dont know WTF u r talking a/b, y r u important enuf for me or anyone to even pay attn to?
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Jan 7, 2023
1: No headline better than this better captures the intent of YIMBY (to redirect the blame AWAY from multi-trillion dollar private equity firms, banks, investors & the hypercommodification/assetization of housing)!

2: The @theatlantic has jumped the shark. 🧵
One #1: This is good old fashion neoliberal/corporate misdirection tactic: blame less powerful / individual actors in order to block attempts to regulate powerful corporations.

They blame trial attorneys, unions, Black employees/women filling discrimination claims, etc.
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Right now the MOST IMPORTANT THING needed to address the GLOBAL housing crisis is anti-speculation & protective policies. Walls need to be put up against both large private equity firms & small investors/Crowdfunding. Strong protections r need for tenants & at-risk homeowners. /3
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Jan 5, 2023
I said: “Making sure the 40 yr BIPOC Walmart worker on welfare doesn’t have to take the bus to work & has access to an affordable 3BD [in yt suburbs] so their kids can go to their HS ain’t ever been [YIMBY’s] focus.”

YIMBY responds completely oblivious to the issue. 🤣🤦🏾‍♂️
Cheat sheet: Developers can build plenty of market-rate studios in affluent yt suburbs & they will REMAIN affluent yt suburbs.

The point: even in said cities, YIMBY lobbying for developers doesn’t do 💩 to advance racial & economic justice or integrate exclusionary yt cities.
It’s like these folks have never been to an affluent city (or community) with a mix of unaffordable housing types (single family homes, townhomes & apartments!) It ain’t the zoning that made/keep them rich white cities.
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Oct 9, 2022
Look at the replies to understand why I call them The Proud Boys of Real Estate

Anyone who thinks to blame decades-in-the-making housing crisis on 1of11 Dem Socialist Supervisor who has been in office 3yrs & founded a statewide tenants advocacy org is insane, stupid or paid off.
Any honest observation is that San Francisco was sold off to Big Tech, commercial real estate & venture capitalists going back to at least Willie Brown’s administration.

And as South Bay cities were adding millions in creative office space for six-figure migrant tech workers…
SF didnt protect the affordable housing stock.

As a tenants rights atty & advocate, Dean & folk like him r the only reason it isnt worse for the remain SF low-income & working class.

Meanwhile SF’s tech engineer gentrifiers r famously NOT housing insecure. So y they so loud?
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Oct 8, 2022
1. Not right.

2. Missing middle used to mean those who make too much for public housing & not enough to buy a home. Literally the equivalent today of the 50-80% AMI.

Then it came to mean moderate income (80-120% AMI).

Now it’s just less than a tech engineer wants to pay. 🤦🏾‍♂️
2. We’ve seen repeatedly the promise of zoning deregulation w/o affordability requirements leading to missing middle. It’s snake oil.

We saw that with small lot subdivisions in LA a decade ago. Same w/duplex laws.
Instead what we see is the new homes more often than not selling at higher price than the initial home acquisition price, & overall hikes in sq ft prices in markets where the splitting is feasible & desirable.
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