Great story a/b DC 11th Street Bridge Park Ive loosely followed for yrs. Spotlights the challenge of bringing necessary infrastructure in gentrifying city in hypercommodified housing era.

Sad fact: any such improvement for marginalized residents can lead to their displacement /1
We’ve learned this lesson with CrenshawLAX light rail. #DestinationCrenshaw & Rail-to-River look to be just as bad.

There’s so much political support for these projects & nearly none for challenging the speculative real estate reality we live in. #ItsTheSpeculationStupid
/2
The policies (& capital) necessary to give communities a fighting chance remain politically impossible to advance & the money to stabilize the communities isn’t coming.

Every tool & lots of $$$ is needed.

The money committed to Ward 8 is record-breaking, but it’s not enough.
/3
Politicians, foundations & even corporations want to pat themselves on the back saying they r really doing something to prevent displacement.

They are (in DC it’s much better than most in fact.) But it’s not enough.

ZERO Black erasure must be the standard there & everywhere.
/4
Can’t have a community land trust while still having it compete w/flippers & global capital. Hundreds of millions r needed w/bans on corp ownership of apts.

Ironclad tenant rights are a must: rent *CAPS* & enforced (criminal) penalties against slumlords & speculators.
Etc etc
/5
There is a way. Folk know what needs to be done. We just need to “mask no difficulties & claim no easy victories.” (Cabral)

This is very difficult & more can & must be done so communities like Ward 8 have a chance.

It’s gonna take revolutionary work & a holistic resetting.
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Aug 6
Anyone surprised gentrifiers/colonizers/settler urbanists don’t like policies that keep the long-term residents in place & housing costs low? 🤷🏾‍♂️

YIMBY opposition to vacancy control is among the most revealing evidence of their racist urban cleansing agenda.
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YIMBY say the market will build for our need, it just needs to be freed. If that’s the case keeping existing residents/low costs in place should at worst be irrelevant to new production, or at best would spur new development since newcomers would require new places to live.
/2
And to add more evidence to the YIMBY racist urban remaking goal, 99/100 times ppl mention vacancy control they aren’t talking a/b the first 10/15yrs of new build. They’re talking a/b the older units ppl currently occupy, especially low-income people.
/3
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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
Read 6 tweets
Jun 12
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
Read 9 tweets
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
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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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