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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

8 months

here is @nodisplacement definition of public housing, co-written with and led by @SaveSection9

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

4 years

there’s what, 16,000 apartments vacant in manhattan—what are we doing

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

3 years

we should accept refugees and get rid of all borders but how interesting that the white house announces its accepting Ukrainian refugees when Haitian migrants were whipped by horses and quickly deported w/ their belongings thrown around like trash

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

6 months

@KensingtonRoyal this tweet is fake as hell

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

10 months

@IDF where is this exact room, based on the most sophisticated israeli intelligence in the world?

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

why are 37 people dead? how is this acceptable? in buffalo—mayor byron on cnn saying “we cant control the wind and we cant control the snow” ???? so we can’t be prepared & have a plan in place? bc where was the plan? and this is systemic. leadership at all levels needs to resign

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

10 months

@IDF worst found footage film i’ve ever seen

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

3 years

the only way to build housing without displacement is to build non-market housing that exists outside of speculation—i.e. housing justice

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

3 years

U.S. imperialism has been destabilizing Haiti resulting in the increase in migrants at U.S. borders and Haitians have been met with such violence, racism and hostility here in the U.S. for fleeing the instability caused by the U.S. and for Haiti daring to be Black and exist

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

4 months

@SkyNews “netanyahu is opposed to ending the war because that would mean an end to the war”

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

3 years

just want the hypocrisy to be acknowledged

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

1 year

i’ve lived in section 8 public housing for 21 years and i keep seeing ppl say “we need to fight for section 8” imma tell u something—cut “we need to fight for section 8” from ur vocabulary. section 8 ain’t it. we need to move away from voucher programs & privatization of housing

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

3 years

“not everything is about race” really??? bc the bigger hypocritical geopolitical picture of the western world order sure has racial undertones!!!

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

1 year

cops taking cues from cop city to attempt to charge Black mutual aid organizers distributing food with felony charges is a dangerous precedent that we must be focused on to organize against and combat.

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

5 years

nyc continues to build housing for households making greater than $60,000 in neighborhoods where ppl make $45,000 or less

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

andrew callaghan on CNN saying CNN is causing ppl to fall down a rabbit hole bc of the 24 hour news cycle and there was silence and don lemon is like “yeah i don’t agree with that” lmfaooo 💀

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

thinking about that rich guy who got called out at the community board meeting for contributing to gentrification and he said “well this is all feeling very eat the rich”

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

3 years

at its own borders the U.S. can’t extend humanity without giving into xenophobic, racist, anti-Black reactionary elements in the country

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

10 months

@jennineak boycott mediocre white men

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

3 years

this hypocrisy goes for every Asian, Latin American, African, Middle Eastern country that U.S. imperialism has destabilized

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

9 months

@UN how will this body enforce this resolution? what’s the enforcement mechanism?

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

1 year

“bank of america data shows more ppl are dipping into their 401(k)s; hardship withdrawals are up 36% despite inflation numbers” HUH INTERESTING

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

3 months

@JamaalBowmanNY weird, my Haitian mom raised me teaching me about the Haitian revolution and never had she told me to have sympathy and empathy for the french colonizers and occupiers as enslaved Haitians successfully fought off the french occupation with rocks and stones.

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

3 months

@tenetyaoi “but we’ll see” lmao

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

there’s 353,400 units that are vacant and not available for sale or rent; at least 42,860 vacant units are rent stabilized. there are at least 78,000 New Yorkers who are unhoused

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

1 year

gentrification may be a policy choice but entitled, racist settler colonizer behavior are active personal and individual choices that must be rejected and unlearned. takes self work and self awareness

barbarism critic (punished arc)

@ScarletMarxist

1 year

I understand the sentiment but yelling at individuals isn’t gonna fix gentrification which is a policy choice.

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

9 months

@numarqs boycott white feminism it’s useless

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

4 years

just let that american flag go. take it down from ur house, ur desk. just let it go. it’s not helping anyone

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

“We decided to make the housing unconditional,” says Kaakinen. “To say, look, you don’t need to solve your problems before you get a home. Instead, a home should be the secure foundation that makes it easier to solve your problems.”

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

5 years

"According to a report from the Citizens Budget Commission, the cost of hiring 500 officers, along with 81 supervisors, will exceed $260 million in the 2020-2023 financial plan, contributing to a $1 billion budget gap expected over the next four years."

NYPD will now monitor homeless New Yorkers 24/7 at some subway stations: report | 6sqft

The city's police department has launched a new surveillance system to keep an eye on homeless New Yorkers at more than 10 subway stations.

www.6sqft.com

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

9 months

@AkbarSAhmed “The Biden administration wants to ensure 2024 does not see a similar event (Geneva Convention). By early January, American diplomats plan to lobby their Swiss counterparts to reject the request from the Palestinians and watchdog organizations.” genocide joe digging deeper

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

4 years

not nyc city council members who voted to increase nypd funding and voted for 4 new jails acting shocked about normal nypd violence

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

9 months

@RepJerryNadler this is false.

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

4 years

“The vacancy rate jumped to a record-high 5.1% from under 2% last August... You’ll start to see four to five months of free rent consistently throughout the winter”

Manhattan landlords’ latest lure: Free rent until next year

www.crainsnewyork.com

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

“to solve the housing crisis we need more housing supply” no shit? we need more deeply affordable housing, not owned by capitalists, but apparently that’s the same as saying “no housing” bc our existing system is capitalist

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

public transit should be free and u need to mind ur damn business

Chris Hayes

@chrislhayes

2 years

@Aiden_CDN @AnonymousLeftie Yes. For me there’s a pretty big distinction between people who really can’t afford it (or in throes of addiction/mental health crisis) and the *many* young, comfortable New Yorkers who I see routinely just jumping turnstiles or going through emergency exit door.

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

“i like and want public housing but it’s not politically realistic, we won’t get it so we need to be realistic and do more neoliberalism & market fundamentalism” this is pathetic. u want public housing, demand it. just like u demanding unaffordable market rate housing

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

it’s truly mind blowing that we need to keep repeating that studies have shown that with the construction of new market rate housing, rents decrease for high end units, and rents increase for *low-end units,* causing displacement risk

Joshua March

@joshuamarch

2 years

It’s truly mind blowing that we need to keep repeating this More housing = lower housing costs for everyone

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

9 months

@ObserverUK this is incredibly antisemitic and a denial of the Jewish and the ongoing Palestinian holocausts

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

the key to understanding YIMBYism is that it’s a reductive fascist politics pushed by capital and the state to perpetuate the settler colonial and neoliberal project. it perpetuates displacement, dispossession, ethnic cleansing, cultural genocide, & economic insecurity

sam

@sam_d_1995

2 years

the real key to understanding YIMBYism is that most of America has made it illegal to build dense housing, causing higher rents, more homelessness, longer commutes, and car dependency it’s really not that complicated

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

“YIMBYism” is not socialist nor is it rooted in a materialist framework. it’s laughable to call a market-based ideology socialist, unless the definition of socialism has been changed

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

5 months

@ShaiDavidai @Columbia lmfaoooo this is so unserious. this man should not be around young people as a pervert!!

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

10 months

@MichaelARothman this is boring projection that should be saved for substack or ur diary

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

vague statements like “we need more housing” is NOT a policy. what kind of housing, is it unaffordable market rate or deeply affordable public housing? what are the affordability levels? are there income levels/requirements? who owns the housing, a for profit private developer?

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

“i’m a socialist. i don’t believe in waiting around for the imaginary end of capitalism or the revolution. i believe in incremental reformism & accommodationism w/in the confines of capitalism/capitalist reality” :((((( sounds like a soc dem

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

housing they can afford??? most ppl are rent burdened or severely rent burdened even in rent stabilized and rent regulated housing—meaning they are paying more than 30-50% of their income on rent. “so we know from experience that it’s possible” lmao no we don’t

Erik Engquist

@erik_engquist

2 years

@BethBowenMI Most Americans live in housing they can afford. Most of it was privately and profitably built. So yes, we know from experience that it’s possible. If zoning allows it.

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

@JakeSheridan_ “we should stand together and speak out about why it’s gotta stop” she don’t care lmao :)

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

4 years

cuomo giving a sob final speech but still doesn’t give clemency for people in cages and doesn’t provide rent relief, with an eviction moratorium ending tomorrow. a gross and disturbing man

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

we cannot organize against capital if black, indigenous, and people of color continue to be undermined, suppressed, silenced, dismissed, sabotaged, ignored, and excluded from the fight

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

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@AnandWrites @KamalaHarris what are you talking about 💀

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

all the “socialists” and ppl who “want a better world for all” suddenly stop dreaming of a better world for all when it comes to dreaming about public housing for all. the racism & classism comes out real quick talmbout “we can’t have the projects w/ riff raff & crime”

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

it’s not just “building homes.” its operating under the neoliberal ideology of yimbyism, which is just status quo United States housing policy. which means operating in the private market, which inherently racist & classist & discriminatory & produces uneven outcomes

Brayden 🥥🌴

@leftistbrayden

2 years

buliding homes is racist

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

once again we need to be precise with our assessment—restrictive zoning is not the cause of housing unaffordability; the cause is the fundamental structure of housing as a commodity & investment vehicle, & the housing market producing imbalances, inequities & inefficiencies

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

3 months

@BarakRavid @ZaidJilani you are choosing your words carefully. “aides” and some israeli officials may have agreed to the framework of the proposal, but that doesn’t mean this is an official, government-approved, signed off by netanyahu proposal. this is biden’s proposal to help netanyahu save face

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

lmfaoo

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

urbanists want a 10, 15 min city but don’t want to do the work to fundamentally change social & economic conditions. mmk

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

3 years

there’s no other way around it period. it’s land banking + public banking, CLTs, housing cooperatives, mutual housing associations and expanded public housing. for ppl in private housing it’s tenant bill of rights, good cause eviction, rent control

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

10 months

@RitchieTorres

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

the crossroads: govt stepping in to fundamentally shift the ownership structure of the housing market w/ public & community owned housing & having the ability to set lower social rents & creating competition to the private sector w/ a public option vs privatization of housing

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

1 year

false again. these studies show that w/ new market rate housing, nearby rents on the high-end decrease by 0-7% while rents for low-end units *increase* bc of gentrification/speculation & high income market demand effects that incentivize landlords to raise rents on the low-end

Abundant Housing Massachusetts

@AbundantHomesMA

1 year

Recent studies prove that the increase in housing supply decreases nearby rents by 5 to 7 percent. It also suggested that construction absorbs demand, relieves displacement pressures and slows rent increases.

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

this level of gross negligence and incompetence and lack of accountability from executive and senior leadership cannot continue

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

i’m a planner who specializes in housing and i can say with confidence that they are in competition for resources and one or the other needs to be prioritized

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

24 days

@BrianMteleSUR they know!!!

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

“the biggest problem is media literacy and ppl taking media as fact” -andrew callaghan

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

3 years

ayyy i got accepted to CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies’ Advanced Certificate in Workplace Democracy and Community Ownership !!! 😭

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

5 months

cnn calling the columbia pro-Palestine protesters “fanned by trump,” “blatantly antisemitic,“nazis like in charlottesville” and “upending the Jewish liberal order” very chilling and disturbing

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

3 years

@emmagf jesus christ

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

10 months

@Tonyuos @IDF lmfao

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

fascist housing policy is saying “we don’t have the space for migrants” when there’s more vacant high end housing than there are people who are unhoused currently

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

3 months

@MarkLevineNYC womp womp

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

4 years

what angers me is ppl will use language like “it’s impossible to ask ppl to isolate,” “we’re social ppl,” “this is psychologically hard on ppl,” but yet we still have ppl in cages, ppl in solitary confinement. is that okay?

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

capital requires blank slate, fractured community, to exploit, displace, dispossess, and extract. hard to do in the face of a militant union, community

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

3 years

let’s disincentivize landlording and encourage and support resident control and community ownership

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

be precise. public housing has been PURPOSEFULLY racially segregated & economically deprived of resources *bc* it was designed to be racially segregated & temporary, thus making way for racist neoliberal housing policies like HOPE VI, RAD/PACT & other privatization schemes

Jacobin

@jacobin

2 years

The decline of public housing in the US can be traced back to neoliberal projects like Bill Clintin’s Hope VI, which encouraged the demolition of public housing to clear the way for private sector investment.

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

3 years

how is NYC “back?” back from what? over 50,000 New Yorkers have died. this nyc is back narrative is so disturbing and ignores reality

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

“so weird Black people want to stay in their communities & don’t want to move or ‘cash in on gentrification’” “a system where Black ppl can stay in their long time homes, & their kids can afford to stay in the same neighborhood is impossible” fascism

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

3 months

@TheCradleMedia sickening

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

4 years

why are there no free covid tests at the bodega, free covid tests in vending machines in subways, by bus stops, by post office boxes??? where are the accessible tests

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

4 months

@kenklippenstein so u.s. colonization of Gaza—creating another colony like Haiti

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

selling public land to private, for profit entities is an evil thing. disgusting

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

“things will get more affordable thru deregulation” “the rents will drop” 😂 ah yes lemme crack open the book of capitalism and see how this plays out sksksksks

Red Hook Star-Revue

@RedHookStar

2 years

Eric Adams wants to deregulate building codes and zoning rules, in order to make it easier for developers in the city. So what political party do we normally associate with deregulation, anyway…

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

3 years

social housing isn’t a “utopia vision.” Indigenous and Black ppl, as well as unions, have practiced some form of social housing or collectivism in the United States since the Underground Railroad. pls don’t reduce/sanitize the history

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

2 years

this is blatantly false. submarket analysis shows evidence of rising rents for low-end units with the construction of new market rate housing development. this suggests risk of displacement for ppl in low-end units if landlords raise rents

Matthew Chapman

@fawfulfan

2 years

Reminder to left-NIMBYs like @NydiaVelazquez : there is no evidence that building more homes displaces low-income people. And a massive trove of economic data to indicate *not* building more homes does exactly that. Stop blocking homes in a city that no one can afford to live in.

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@matrixgoth

2 years

i will not be disrespected

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@matrixgoth

4 years

i can’t comprehend nor process the level of evil and sociopathy that exists in nyc leadership to STILL not move mountains to provide ppl on the street and in shelters housing??? i mean this is so basic. it’s health. is this genocide/ecocide/biocide?

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@matrixgoth

1 year

“Thypin told Bloomberg that being a landlord gives him less bang for his buck than it used to: That's because…of a "growing class of renters" in the 21st century who are mobilizing politically against landlords” LOL BYE DONT LET THE DOOR HIT U

An NYC real estate investor explains why the 'golden age' of being a landlord is over and he's...

It's getting harder for landlords to rake in wealth, an NYC real estate investor said on the Odd Lots podcast. He's switching to "safer" investments.

www.businessinsider.com

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@matrixgoth

2 years

oops, im sorry. i only went to school for planning to learn about US housing policy & then worked at the department of housing but i guess i’m too stupid and must have had an anvil dropped on my head

Matthew Chapman

@fawfulfan

2 years

If you think that building homes, and especially building dense, walkable, transit-connected homes, is "status quo United States housing policy," I can only conclude that a cartoon character has dropped an anvil on your head.

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@matrixgoth

3 years

“professionalism” is such a drain. why is it the expectation to change your whole being just to talk about a spreadsheet. giving mutual respect is a given..i don’t need to be molded into whiteness standards to be respectful in an office setting lmao

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@matrixgoth

4 years

i love abolition as a tool, a practice, a politic, bc it gives me mind-liberation and freedom. my body is not free, i do not walk freely, i cannot *be* free. but abolition allows me to be mind-free. to think imaginatively and outside systems of oppression

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@matrixgoth

2 years

the options are not affordable housing and parking lots—these are the false options presented by private real estate developers and their supporters. the option is always deeply affordable, public, community owned housing

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@matrixgoth

2 years

“ur too militant” :(((( shut up!!!

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@matrixgoth

2 years

“a review of the tax, commissioned by the government & carried out by an economist & a data analyst, found that it [speculation & vacancy tax] has been effective in returning vacant homes to the rental market and putting a damper on soaring home prices.”

The Data Shows Taxing Empty Homes Works | The Tyee

BC’s speculation and vacancy tax returned 20,000 empty units to the rental market, says economist Tsur Somerville.

thetyee.ca

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@matrixgoth

3 months

@halalflow bernie is so unserious

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@matrixgoth

2 years

idk what the racists are doing, but the communist plan is land back, resource and wealth redistribution, going after predatory entities, banks, corporations, monopolies, seizing vacant homes from slumlords, taking back privatized land, public housing for all

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@matrixgoth

2 years

when YIMBYs are working in partnership with government on housing policy, when YIMBYs are setting the housing policy agenda at the department of city planning, when the government is enacting YIMBY policies, what do you call that?

girl paul giamatti 🍋

@rebeccarightnow

2 years

LMAO "YIMBYism is status quo United States housing policy" this person is deranged

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@matrixgoth

2 years

and what’s to stop landlords from increasing the rent on low-end units in this chain migration link theory? quickly!

Jen Monroe

@thatjenmonroe

2 years

It's pretty simple - people who can afford to live in floaty cube tower will move there, vacating their current rentals, thereby freeing them up for people who can't afford to live in floaty cube tower

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sabrina ୨୧(❛ᴗ❛)୨୧

@matrixgoth

4 years

do ppl know what structural change is? it’s not diversity or representation

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@matrixgoth

2 years

@fermypoo this is the one

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