@leahfrombklyn introduced issue of affordable housing not being accessible to everyone even once constructed & with voucher in hand. Racism & discrimination are often not acknowledged. Leah invited people to speak & 1st speaker wants to treat Black displacement as catastrophe.
10s of 1000s of Black residents left, as detected by last Census.
Where did they go?
Squatting
Streets
Left city?
Signs of gentrification:
more 911 calls
311
Quality of Life
Loitering
Noise complaints
Profiling
Where did they go?
Squatting
Streets
Left city?
Signs of gentrification:
more 911 calls
311
Quality of Life
Loitering
Noise complaints
Profiling
Talking about # of bedrooms not being appropriate for large extended families
Habitat for humanity community
in Sanctuary City
Not making move into homes from trailers
Fears because of immigration status
Unsure if homeownership is for them
Car ownership & parking
vs Bike lanes
Habitat for humanity community
in Sanctuary City
Not making move into homes from trailers
Fears because of immigration status
Unsure if homeownership is for them
Car ownership & parking
vs Bike lanes
Oh, That was @dionysus8 lol hi
@thetimeisnowTB
Protected bike lanes are an odd priority over renter protections!
Ring cameras
surveillance
No more in-person communication between neighbors, just one-sided monitoring
@leahfrombklyn
Dog parks🐶
Unpacking colonization in urban planning
@CeCe_23Spalding Nancy
Protected bike lanes are an odd priority over renter protections!
Ring cameras
surveillance
No more in-person communication between neighbors, just one-sided monitoring
@leahfrombklyn
Dog parks🐶
Unpacking colonization in urban planning
@CeCe_23Spalding Nancy
East NY
Men’s Shelter NIMBYs
Womens & Families shelters preferred
POLICE
Are they doing their job?
Alarming calls for vigilantism
Violent reactions to property crimes
Conservative criminalization of sex workers, pimps, homeless people, addicts & transients
Aesthetic pursuits.
Men’s Shelter NIMBYs
Womens & Families shelters preferred
POLICE
Are they doing their job?
Alarming calls for vigilantism
Violent reactions to property crimes
Conservative criminalization of sex workers, pimps, homeless people, addicts & transients
Aesthetic pursuits.
Who is the community?
Who are ppl planning for?
New arrivals?
Gentrifiers?
Original occupants?
Immigrants?
Black families?
Brown families?
Displaced?
Disabled?
Elderly?
Returning white flight?
RACIALIZED displacement not being discussed in urban planning spaces
More speakers..
Who are ppl planning for?
New arrivals?
Gentrifiers?
Original occupants?
Immigrants?
Black families?
Brown families?
Displaced?
Disabled?
Elderly?
Returning white flight?
RACIALIZED displacement not being discussed in urban planning spaces
More speakers..
Speaker just wants housing for ALL
new & existing people
Tyrell @thetimeisnowTB
🌟PRIORITIZATION🌟
Whose situation is desperate
Moving bc of preference is privilege
Need to defend most vulnerable
@dionysus8
Vacant RSO’s
Permanence
Physical displacement
Rooms for rent in S Bronx
new & existing people
Tyrell @thetimeisnowTB
🌟PRIORITIZATION🌟
Whose situation is desperate
Moving bc of preference is privilege
Need to defend most vulnerable
@dionysus8
Vacant RSO’s
Permanence
Physical displacement
Rooms for rent in S Bronx
@tfine Todd Fine (1st speaker)
Why aren’t politicians addressing RACIALIZED displacement
strategizing? Analyzing zoning
@JuneMo41 Ms. June
Harlem federally subsidized building
Low-income stigmatization
ROOT CAUSES
Housing meetings
Maintaining since 1920s
Poor Positivity 🥹
FHA?
Why aren’t politicians addressing RACIALIZED displacement
strategizing? Analyzing zoning
@JuneMo41 Ms. June
Harlem federally subsidized building
Low-income stigmatization
ROOT CAUSES
Housing meetings
Maintaining since 1920s
Poor Positivity 🥹
FHA?
@leahfrombklyn
Love 🥰
NYCHA
LI > affordable
Projects > developments
Bias against unhoused people
Stigma
Shelters
Burden
Hyper segregation
NIMBYs
EBT shame
Policing the poor
Judgement
Mixed income
Dysfunction
Decolonization
Love 🥰
NYCHA
LI > affordable
Projects > developments
Bias against unhoused people
Stigma
Shelters
Burden
Hyper segregation
NIMBYs
EBT shame
Policing the poor
Judgement
Mixed income
Dysfunction
Decolonization
@geagbuffalo G.
Community input
Shelters never get approved
The Bronx upzoning
Amplifies Ms. June & Tyrell
No pity for privilege
Defend the Displaced
Juan @JuanEstPabs
NYCHA hard to apply for
Rent is too damn high
Who is affording rent??
Absentee LL’s withholding existing units.
Community input
Shelters never get approved
The Bronx upzoning
Amplifies Ms. June & Tyrell
No pity for privilege
Defend the Displaced
Juan @JuanEstPabs
NYCHA hard to apply for
Rent is too damn high
Who is affording rent??
Absentee LL’s withholding existing units.
@DoreenforNY
Echoed what G. said about an unwelcome speaker (in defense of Sabrina)
Housing shortage myth
Shelter system more expensive
Redlining
Entitlement
Prioritize working families &
Migrants without options
Ethnic cleansing
Speculation
Right2housing
Luxury moratorium
LG:🤩
Echoed what G. said about an unwelcome speaker (in defense of Sabrina)
Housing shortage myth
Shelter system more expensive
Redlining
Entitlement
Prioritize working families &
Migrants without options
Ethnic cleansing
Speculation
Right2housing
Luxury moratorium
LG:🤩
@thetimeisnowTB Tyrell uplifts Ms. June
Systemic Issues
“Affordable”
Low AMI Philadelphia
neighbors calling 911 on unhoused people
Internalizing poverty, shame
Ascension: myth?
Insecurity, desire to ascend
“Both sides”
Mimicking Activists’ LANGUAGE
@eccentrixbreeze
“Affordable”
Systemic Issues
“Affordable”
Low AMI Philadelphia
neighbors calling 911 on unhoused people
Internalizing poverty, shame
Ascension: myth?
Insecurity, desire to ascend
“Both sides”
Mimicking Activists’ LANGUAGE
@eccentrixbreeze
“Affordable”
Mixed income issues
Chicago
@JeremyforNY
Queens
Multiple displacements
YIMBY violence
“Affordable”
Who is making 3x rent?
Classism & racist “upzoning”
Lori D new
Boise ID
YIMBY violence
Where is the organizing for alternative perspective?
Think tanks
Sightline Lobbying Upzoning
Chicago
@JeremyforNY
Queens
Multiple displacements
YIMBY violence
“Affordable”
Who is making 3x rent?
Classism & racist “upzoning”
Lori D new
Boise ID
YIMBY violence
Where is the organizing for alternative perspective?
Think tanks
Sightline Lobbying Upzoning
@FlorForDenver Flor for Denver City Council D7
DEI
Displaced people
People who were already displaced
@Butyouahoe1
Harlem
Columbia
Texas-based algorithmic rent collusion scheme
No breaks
@DigitalSciGuy
Marc
Unpaid YIMBY
Orange line
NE university
NP dev building
Boston
Empathy
DEI
Displaced people
People who were already displaced
@Butyouahoe1
Harlem
Columbia
Texas-based algorithmic rent collusion scheme
No breaks
@DigitalSciGuy
Marc
Unpaid YIMBY
Orange line
NE university
NP dev building
Boston
Empathy
Tyrell responds to Marc about systemic YIMBY Violence, calls out YIMBY oppression
YIMBYs silence the community input
Damien @damienISgoodmon anti-YIMBY
Why do YIMBY feel the need to center their voices & “struggle” over more struggling, marginalized people in housing discourse?
YIMBYs silence the community input
Damien @damienISgoodmon anti-YIMBY
Why do YIMBY feel the need to center their voices & “struggle” over more struggling, marginalized people in housing discourse?
>50 listeners now
DG Crenshaw, LA, CA $6100/mo rents
Great white return of capital
WHY is YIMBY analysis of urban renewal SUPERIOR to marginalized elders’ who are facing displacement?
@DoreenforNY calls out in Sabrina @matrixgoth defense 💕
Grew up in Jamaica, transit deserts
DG Crenshaw, LA, CA $6100/mo rents
Great white return of capital
WHY is YIMBY analysis of urban renewal SUPERIOR to marginalized elders’ who are facing displacement?
@DoreenforNY calls out in Sabrina @matrixgoth defense 💕
Grew up in Jamaica, transit deserts
REPARATIONS
5x vacancies as # of PEH
DV survivor
1st generation
Displaced
Multi-generational households living on 1-2 incomes need more space than multi-family & density allows
Permanence
Ageism, ableism, sexism
YIMBY violence
Smith addressing Sabrina
LG corrects pronouns, slurs
5x vacancies as # of PEH
DV survivor
1st generation
Displaced
Multi-generational households living on 1-2 incomes need more space than multi-family & density allows
Permanence
Ageism, ableism, sexism
YIMBY violence
Smith addressing Sabrina
LG corrects pronouns, slurs
@ihatefancams is struggling to defend YIMBY by saying it is the antidote for redlining, says his resort town in NY is gentrifying & ppl are moving to TX, NC
Over 60 people listening now
@JeremyforNY YIMBY want to build housing but don’t say what kind
Housing for whom?
Queens NY
Over 60 people listening now
@JeremyforNY YIMBY want to build housing but don’t say what kind
Housing for whom?
Queens NY
Marc Ebuña again (transit planner $50k YIMBY with partner & roommate)
Agrees with some YIMBY criticism
Values lived experience & community input
Building includes 25 S8 units & sees long waitlists for vouchers & S8 units
Clarifies parking position, cuts bottom line
Happy 2 b here
Agrees with some YIMBY criticism
Values lived experience & community input
Building includes 25 S8 units & sees long waitlists for vouchers & S8 units
Clarifies parking position, cuts bottom line
Happy 2 b here
74 listeners
@DigitalSciGuy
Summerville MA dense consolidated luxury condos
@leahfrombklyn
@aboveitall_b Beyond | 88,830 Rent Stabilized (in CT from NY)
Some voices are not being heard
Community Resource Center
Smith greets Hayden Clark
Evangelizes car-free
Doreen had a point
@DigitalSciGuy
Summerville MA dense consolidated luxury condos
@leahfrombklyn
@aboveitall_b Beyond | 88,830 Rent Stabilized (in CT from NY)
Some voices are not being heard
Community Resource Center
Smith greets Hayden Clark
Evangelizes car-free
Doreen had a point
Flip flops on real shortage & artificial density
@ArtistStudioAP Jenny
SPECULATION
Vienna anti-speculation
Universal rent control
YIMBY don’t show up for communities
@damienISgoodmon
YIMBY analysis not deep
Brilliant scholarly left-NIMBYs @ananyaUCLA @leilanifarha @matrixgoth❤️🔥
@ArtistStudioAP Jenny
SPECULATION
Vienna anti-speculation
Universal rent control
YIMBY don’t show up for communities
@damienISgoodmon
YIMBY analysis not deep
Brilliant scholarly left-NIMBYs @ananyaUCLA @leilanifarha @matrixgoth❤️🔥
😤🍼😤🍼😤🍼
Toxic bumper sticker responses from green YIMBY personalities
Housing politics requires depth & worldly experience, + RESPECT
Blackstone, @mattyglesias simps
YIMBY 🙈🙉 don’t listen or read diverse perspectives
@Jwheath3 stop apologizing 4 gov by saying there’s no $
Toxic bumper sticker responses from green YIMBY personalities
Housing politics requires depth & worldly experience, + RESPECT
Blackstone, @mattyglesias simps
YIMBY 🙈🙉 don’t listen or read diverse perspectives
@Jwheath3 stop apologizing 4 gov by saying there’s no $
Dammit I think I tweeted 2 much bc I can’t see my last few tweets like about @dondisappoints 🐸 remarks (weird mustaches)
@spkr118 tenant organizer
Smith 😤🍼
Nicolàs Equis @pigmentpariah organizing
Tyrell uplifts Damien’s ? to YIMBY Marc
Ppl w LE ALSO can have academic analyses!
@spkr118 tenant organizer
Smith 😤🍼
Nicolàs Equis @pigmentpariah organizing
Tyrell uplifts Damien’s ? to YIMBY Marc
Ppl w LE ALSO can have academic analyses!
I spoke briefly about how YIMBY don’t want to abolish all restrictive zoning, like LAMC § 41.18 zoning that prohibits sitting in public in LA. They don’t let us stay in their backyard when we get physically displaced by development. Shout 2 @NotOneMoreBlock hope i get to hear u
>100 listeners now
Yup My tweets aren’t posting because I just maxed my tweet rate for the very first time ever
There’s been 3 speakers
Sorry missed ur name!
Stu &
Lawrence abolish police
Yup My tweets aren’t posting because I just maxed my tweet rate for the very first time ever
There’s been 3 speakers
Sorry missed ur name!
Stu &
Lawrence abolish police
@sf_leilani BUILD BUILD BUILD IS A MYTH
I see empty units
Private property
Taxes
Homelessness
$22-26/hr can’t even afford
Stop fighting YIMBY
Get their $ & ONLY affordable
NP housing in SF is $4k for 2-3br
Family of 4 paying $2k & can’t afford basics
Block YIMBY. Hope this posts!
I see empty units
Private property
Taxes
Homelessness
$22-26/hr can’t even afford
Stop fighting YIMBY
Get their $ & ONLY affordable
NP housing in SF is $4k for 2-3br
Family of 4 paying $2k & can’t afford basics
Block YIMBY. Hope this posts!
This goes will with what @dondisappoints was saying about getting blocked by YIMBY. 🐸💚🐢 We give them too much space & power. Block them first!! Block their $. They block Black women’s voices. They block community input. Not listening to them in 2023. Caste systems. B real
Kantell P
Had to compete to get subsidy
Student housing waitlist was 3 years
We need both public & private housing
LG I’m loud in this space because it’s important, politicians are acting like Twitter YIMBY
Astoria native Attorney tenants organizer
YIMBY assumes capital
Data
Had to compete to get subsidy
Student housing waitlist was 3 years
We need both public & private housing
LG I’m loud in this space because it’s important, politicians are acting like Twitter YIMBY
Astoria native Attorney tenants organizer
YIMBY assumes capital
Data
Data driven policy
ANTI-BLACK METRICS
Scarcity is by design
status quo
Policy = police
Been displaced, been searching for new home for months
Lived experience must be uplifted OVER YIMBY
What about the lower 30% of AMI people?
Tenant Power must muscle state
Overhaul approach
ANTI-BLACK METRICS
Scarcity is by design
status quo
Policy = police
Been displaced, been searching for new home for months
Lived experience must be uplifted OVER YIMBY
What about the lower 30% of AMI people?
Tenant Power must muscle state
Overhaul approach
@NotOneMoreBlock YAY I CAN HEAR YOU
Uplifting @DR0DRIGUEZ
Talking about dismantling racial capitalism & property rights, we need to work from the point of European arrival in USA. That must be foundation where we start autonomous tenants association for NYC. Voting ≠ power.
Uplifting @DR0DRIGUEZ
Talking about dismantling racial capitalism & property rights, we need to work from the point of European arrival in USA. That must be foundation where we start autonomous tenants association for NYC. Voting ≠ power.
@theonlymelcruz uplifts previous speakers
Stolen land & REPARATIONS
History of eviction FORCES homelessness
Are undocumented people competing with citizens for limited resources?
Karen Bass & Skid Row, #resignkdl
Stolen land & REPARATIONS
History of eviction FORCES homelessness
Are undocumented people competing with citizens for limited resources?
Karen Bass & Skid Row, #resignkdl
LG calls out “us v them” framing of migrant crisis.
This is exactly how they want us to speak about it (as competition)
Ukrainian refugees were received very differently, they weren’t labeled as a public burden.❤️🩹🙏
@Sixthlisp ferric
Decentralize data
Blockchain tech
Think tanks
This is exactly how they want us to speak about it (as competition)
Ukrainian refugees were received very differently, they weren’t labeled as a public burden.❤️🩹🙏
@Sixthlisp ferric
Decentralize data
Blockchain tech
Think tanks
Bureau of labor statistics
Data-driven policy
Lived experience
Andrea - GA, rural N FL, KY
Transit, walkability, bike lanes, density are nice but fuel gentrification & it’s not worth it
Cars are needed in the sprawling South
Homeless bike riders need bike lanes but don’t get ‘em
Data-driven policy
Lived experience
Andrea - GA, rural N FL, KY
Transit, walkability, bike lanes, density are nice but fuel gentrification & it’s not worth it
Cars are needed in the sprawling South
Homeless bike riders need bike lanes but don’t get ‘em
Some tweets aren’t making it 😔
Deleted my comments about @mattyv_ftp #clt Community Land Trust #cooperatives #LATTC LE 2015-2019 unhoused
Buying buildings back in LA
Knowledge is power, power 2 people
@spkr118 Stephanie Smith optimistic
Nicolàs pessimism, definitions
Deleted my comments about @mattyv_ftp #clt Community Land Trust #cooperatives #LATTC LE 2015-2019 unhoused
Buying buildings back in LA
Knowledge is power, power 2 people
@spkr118 Stephanie Smith optimistic
Nicolàs pessimism, definitions
*artificial scarcity
@theonlymelcruz if there is to be peace, real peace, the immigrant situation needs to be addressed bc homeless veterans
LG GOING STRONG 5 hours later
Diaspora?
Are we being anti-immigrant in this convo?
Mel - thank u 4 challenge
No. they r here. No one should be on the street.
LG GOING STRONG 5 hours later
Diaspora?
Are we being anti-immigrant in this convo?
Mel - thank u 4 challenge
No. they r here. No one should be on the street.
@KidClutch2335 Yours Truly
Wealthiest country in the world should not have mass homelessness. We need to re-align our budgets, not blame each other or other groups of people
Manufactured scarcity
Black immigrants IE 🇭🇹 are homeless
WE CAN HOUSE EVERYONE
But we displace globally.
Wealthiest country in the world should not have mass homelessness. We need to re-align our budgets, not blame each other or other groups of people
Manufactured scarcity
Black immigrants IE 🇭🇹 are homeless
WE CAN HOUSE EVERYONE
But we displace globally.
@DR0DRIGUEZ we need to collectively focus on politicians & policies. Budget is unbalanced
There’s no capitalist that can stop us. We are not enemies
LG diaspora
Small immigrant landlord wedge btwn Black tenants
Unpacking w.s.
We’re here, supportive, respectful, going deeper
There’s no capitalist that can stop us. We are not enemies
LG diaspora
Small immigrant landlord wedge btwn Black tenants
Unpacking w.s.
We’re here, supportive, respectful, going deeper
@CeCe_23Spalding 🇭🇹 Haitian
Background: domestic policy relates to 🇺🇸’s international relations because 🇺🇸 CREATES poor conditions in other countries. We have to take so many refugees bc we cause hardships globally
Reparations
Common ancestry🫂
Let’s focus on planning together.
Background: domestic policy relates to 🇺🇸’s international relations because 🇺🇸 CREATES poor conditions in other countries. We have to take so many refugees bc we cause hardships globally
Reparations
Common ancestry🫂
Let’s focus on planning together.
@grenadine Detroit
No1 lives in new housing
YIMBY/NIMBY focused on building
Destruction not addressed, displacement rampant & building won’t re-house the ppl already foreclosed due to tax issue
“Who did you boycott today?” Reductionist perspectives are anti-Black Audio book rec
No1 lives in new housing
YIMBY/NIMBY focused on building
Destruction not addressed, displacement rampant & building won’t re-house the ppl already foreclosed due to tax issue
“Who did you boycott today?” Reductionist perspectives are anti-Black Audio book rec
@yoursportscards here’s the audio book recommendation:
https://twitter.com/yoursportscards/status/1603915747767554056
@dondisappoints how can Europeans envision & realize Indigenous #LandBack without it being another genocide? ❤️🔥🐢🌍
@pablo___e destruction of housing
@grenadine brought it up as demolitions & arsons rampant in the rust belt
LG: wow. Plus immigration?
PE: real estate
Doreen: hmm?
@pablo___e destruction of housing
@grenadine brought it up as demolitions & arsons rampant in the rust belt
LG: wow. Plus immigration?
PE: real estate
Doreen: hmm?
@mikalkush corruption in LA or Compton City Hall
@thetimeisnowTB “Shortage”
Organize people & resources, PB
South Bend Indiana
LG: Strength in community, cultivated in this Spaces. Feedback: conversation is accessible. Thank you for being supportive SIX HOURS STRONG!
Yours Truly:
@thetimeisnowTB “Shortage”
Organize people & resources, PB
South Bend Indiana
LG: Strength in community, cultivated in this Spaces. Feedback: conversation is accessible. Thank you for being supportive SIX HOURS STRONG!
Yours Truly:
@ayasinvan renovictions in Toronto
Alright I need to pass the baton to the next shift of minute takers. 🫠TY LG for facilitating this discussion, it was so enlightening. 🫡
Alright I need to pass the baton to the next shift of minute takers. 🫠TY LG for facilitating this discussion, it was so enlightening. 🫡
Something really interesting happened when I was no longer minutetaking ofc. @DehMao enlightened everyone about parallels with US housing & recent histories of Nairobi, 🇰🇪 & 🇭🇰, 🇨🇳 putting the whole conversation into a global context & ended with @ayasinvan speaking in Swahili😌
I apologize to anyone I missed or misrepresented! Thanks to LG & ALL for a great discussion 
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