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Mike Dunham

3 years

Mayor of extraordinarily expensive and racially segregated Palo Alto, Tom Dubois ( @votedubois ), is worried about state housing legislation: "any housing that does emerge ends up housing only the highest wage-earners, not those who need it most."

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

2 years

@AngieBEvans Excerpt from city code on quiet hours.

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@JacobDisagrees Don't tell them about Young Gaddafi

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Brooks D. Simpson

@BrooksDSimpson

9 months

Today at Arlington National Cemetery ...

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

7 months

Some Porter campaign staffer finally looked at California issue polling data and realized you need to be a YIMBY to win statewide these days.

Katie Porter

@katieporteroc

7 months

Housing is the top issue for Californians, but career politicians in Washington have been too slow to provide solutions. My kids are worried they won’t be able to afford housing in California when they grow up. I have a 10-point plan to tackle—and solve—our housing crisis ⤵️ 1/

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

2 years

@cafedujord @yhdistyminen @angelaswartz Never discuss housing policy with your heroes.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

9 months

@SodaPeeStream @MingweiSamuel As a Berkeley homeowner, I'd be very upset if my tax dollars were wasted on removing this bench unless a city-provided was installed at the same time.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

5 months

@davidjacoby @SFMTA_Muni Most of those cars look like they're intruding on the sidewalk. Sounds like folks should clear the junk out of the garage and start actually parking their cars where they're intended to be.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

3 years

You come at the king, you best not miss.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

4 years

Palo Alto, CA -- home of @Stanford and @Tesla -- is probably the most exclusionary major suburb in the United States, and this November's city council election may decide whether the area remains a racially and economically segregated community. (thread)

Local Politics Is the Reason Your Suburb Is Still So Segregated

Palo Alto, the home of Stanford University, is the poster child for this

suburbs.substack.com

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

1 year

@vanillaopinions

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

5 months

@wanyeburkett Who cares? The First Amendment protects speech even if you or the politicians in power disagree with it.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

2 years

@DeanPreston Genuine answer: SF is ground zero for the housing shortage in the United States, and elected officials there continue to make excuses to do anything but build enough housing to keep up with economic growth. No one else wants their own electeds getting the same idea.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

2 years

Love it when a Peninsula YIMBY mayor ( @gisellemarie ) can personally ratio a San Francisco NIMBY supervisor ( @DeanPreston ).

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

2 years

@Dodge I'm looking forward to the day this tweet shows up as evidence in a wrongful death lawsuit against @Dodge . Screencapping here for future plaintiffs:

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

2 years

American public schools without Prop 13

Barstool Indy

@barstoolindy

2 years

This tour of Carmel High School is going viral on Tik Tok. America cannot believe how big it is 💀

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

1 year

@amyforsandiego @WesSDCali @paulkruegersd That's 1/5th the rent of the home you posted.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

3 years

@pentney @ArmandDoma Yeah, those helmets have got to go.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

9 months

@alex_lee Only change I would support:

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

10 months

@AlecStapp Says a lot about policing in America that an extremely simple, extremely efficient method for evaluating evidence to solve crimes is not well known to cops.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

10 months

@loganb I was wondering why the top channels were British. Makes sense that it's a thing every homeowner needs to obsess over.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

2 years

@DeanPreston Context: Dean is lashing out against YIMBYs as paid astroturfers, because his former campaign manager was just outed as being paid $60,000 to block a 100% affordable housing project in Livermore. He has yet to condemn her, as far as I've seen.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

1 year

@ebwhamilton One of the last surviving examples of an atrium-style McDonald's in the US and a rare restaurant catering to the working class, and it was torn down for a mere 377 homes???

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

6 months

@StatisticUrban Counting a mortgage as being "in debt" is not quite right. You presumably have an asset securing that loan that is worth more than the mortgage. Still shouldn't be borrowing for a wedding, however.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

2 years

@emily_sawicki 829 affordable units! Congrats, @PhilBrock4SM !

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

1 year

NIMBYs will literally cry over a 7-story building at a city meeting instead of spending time with their families.

Jenny Build Housing Silva

@jrskis

1 year

Lori- love the mall. Recognizes that people complain it’s dead, but like the openness. Feels dystopian to build all this housing. I think she’s crying.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

11 months

@CollieYimby Sad that he's had to resort to being pro-Putin to get back on the YIMBY timelines here.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

7 months

Imagine thinking Biden being president at 86 years old is anywhere near as important or threatening as Trump planning to rip up the Constitution in a second term. Silver has totally lost the plot.

Nate Silver

@NateSilver538

7 months

Biden's age is not at all comparable to Hillary's emails. It is a much more important issue. He wants to be president until he is 86 years old! Voters ratioanally think it's important. I criticized #ButHerEmails early and often. This story is not the same.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

1 year

The lesson here for politicians is that specific NIMBY concerns about any given housing project are often insincere, and nothing you do will get a NIMBY to support it. So just address whatever concerns you think have any merit, approve, and move on.

Jess Hudson

@Jess_hdsn

1 year

Opposition didn't want single adults living in this site, so Sup. Pine listened and changed it to families and seniors. Residents had said they would feel differently if it was families- but the goalposts keep changing. It's the same NIMBY argument no matter what you do.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

10 months

@upzone_CA

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

3 years

Where can I rent or purchase one of these 56k homes "in the pipeline"? Sounds like a happening SF neighborhood!

Rafael Mandelman

@RafaelMandelman

3 years

Last Tuesday a super-majority of the Board voted to delay a market-rate development at 469 Stevenson. For context, San Francisco has far exceeded our ABAG-determined goal for new market rate housing from 2015-2022, with over 18,000 units built and over 56,000 in the pipeline. (1)

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

1 year

@DavidAstinWalsh The link to file a fair housing complaint in Virginia is here. Even if you don't think you need the help in this situation, the next person who really needs a place to live might:

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

2 years

@katewillett Way to parachute into a complex issue and ignore the activists on the ground who've been doing the work on that project for years:

Darrell Owens

@IDoTheThinking

2 years

Nah, the growing amount of yimbys in North Berkeley forced the issue of building at BART prior to state law. Its just that without state law, the nimbys and yimbys wouldve likely split the zoning at 4 or 5 stories rather than the state mandated 7.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

9 months

In addition to not understanding housing policy, NIMBY doctors also don't understand jokes

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

4 years

After watching the failed last-minute maneuver by San Mateo NIMBYs to remove 200 units from the 961-home Concar Passage project last night, it's worth considering the policy reasons for WHY California state housing law strongly discourages such last-minute downzonings. (thread)

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

3 years

@JakeAnbinder All starts with Gmail. Once your company, university, or personal life is on Gmail, defaulting to Google Docs is easy. If your company still uses Outlook, then you're much more likely to use Word.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

2 years

@AaronGuhreen 15 stories?

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

1 year

@metrolosangeles @WillFedder @esgarciaa @bussit_bbLA You're in your 50s and don't understand induced demand and the basic fundamentals of your field?

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

3 years

Update:

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

3 years

A NIMBY city councilmember in Cupertino is trying to argue the Chinese Exclusion Act wasn't racist. Lady, it's called THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT

Neil Park-McClintick

@neil_park_

3 years

In this email thread Cupertino City Councilmember Liang Chao argues the Chinese Exclusion act was not racist—because it only affected “laborers” Don’t think I’ve ever heard someone defend the Chinese Exclusion Act—ever in my life

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

5 months

As soon as I saw the news story about @bilalmahmood and questioning his credentials, my first thought was, "Why the hell do a bunch of neuroscientists outside of the state care about a local San Francisco race?" It turns out, one of the accusers is an ally of @DeanPreston .

Sharky Laguana

@Sharkyl

5 months

What Assistant Professor Turner doesn't tell you: he's not a casual academic observer from New York. He's someone with connections to local politicians and causes. Here he is standing next to Supervisor Preston at a political rally for Anchor Steam workers.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

7 months

@TommyChong840 @sam_d_1995 @BigMeanInternet If housing were universally affordable, YIMBYs would move on to doing other things with our lives.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

3 years

<Pikachu face> Palo Alto's discretionary approval processes for housing means that a developer decided to build an office building that complies with exist zoning, rather than take the risk of proposing a mixed-use project that could be blocked by Council.

Developer drops housing plan near California Avenue

Smith Development, which was preparing to build 75 apartments near the California Avenue Caltrain station, has dropped the proposal and is now looking to construct an office complex at the site.

www.paloaltoonline.com

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

11 months

@ArmandDoma @botoxedbuddhist @Jeffinatorator @sam_d_1995 Armand, if we used real-world evidence to inform public policy and improve regular people's lives BUT a developer made money in the process, is the world really a better place? I don't think so.

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@mldunham

11 months

@sam_d_1995 @botoxedbuddhist Yeah, dude has to be like, "I never see my neighbors. They must not exist."

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9 months

@BrooksDSimpson Always relevant:

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7 months

@Patterdude Agreed. It'd have been nice if she had deeply engaged in her state's most important policy issue before now, so she wouldn't have to talk in platitudes.

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@mldunham

3 years

@cafedujord @DeanPreston Weird! I thought they were a bunch of conservative segregationists. Why are they retweeting a socialist?

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

1 year

One of San Mateo's most aggressive NIMBY trolls has outed themselves as both a landlord AND an incompetent one!

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

2 years

@ViraniAlim They're not going to happen on any meaningful timescale, but they will be used to justify blocking and delaying urbanist reforms.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

1 year

@amyforsandiego What is the market value of that home behind you?

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

2 years

@FavaMandies @DeanPreston San Francisco's pre-pandemic population was only 13% higher than it was in 1950, despite multiple tech booms in between. It's coasting off density from World War II that is no longer sufficient.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

3 years

Jesse's face turn over the last year is one of my favorite things in Bay Area housing politics.

Jordan Grimes🚰

@cafedujord

3 years

Next, Berkeley Mayor and ABAG President Jesse Arreguín was having none of it, correctly pointing out: “There is a lot of room in the western part of San Francisco…it doesn’t have to be in the Mission and the southeast part of the city. That’s San Francisco’s decision.”

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

8 months

@_senseofreason @Boenau You should try adding up the taxes each car owner pays for these services vs. the free market cost of them. The taxes are nowhere close to covering costs, and the delta is made up by non-car owners and people who don't drive much.

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@mldunham

1 year

@mpukita @JonahDispatch @elonmusk @mattyglesias @Twitter Because your argument is so bad that even the conservative commentariat thinks it's dumb.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

3 years

@CACoreyU @alex_lee The rare "divide by zero" ratio:

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

10 months

@jfcampbellTO @srboisvert And yet it is the logical implication of your original train of thought. Maybe that says something!

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

7 months

@nextdoorsv @kylekatarn95 I think Dave got it right. NIMBY cities need sticks, not carrots, and legislators beyond the local level have a duty to realize that and act on it:

upzone the coastal elites

@about_dave

7 months

While Porter is finally realizing YIMBY policies are necessary to win statewide elections, she's still not getting it. 5 was her "best" supply policy, and all it amounts to is carrots, easily ignored by rich Nimby cities.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

1 year

How many thousands of Caltrain riders have their commutes delayed each year to avoid offending the sensitivities of the Burlingame Historical Society?

Caltrain

@Caltrain

1 year

Delays expected. ⬇️

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3 years

@DeanPreston How high will rents in San Francisco need to go for the "progressive" faction to realize the "affordable housing only" philosophy won't/can't fix the housing crisis?

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

3 years

@DeanPreston Man, I was hoping today would be the day:

Mike Dunham

@mldunham

3 years

@hanlonbt I'm holding out hope that Dean will one day realize that approving housing in wealthy neighborhoods helps tenants instead of hurting them and face-turns into the perfect YIMBY politician: pro-housing for all income levels, pro-transit, pro-active transportation, and pro-tenant.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

7 months

Over and over, anyone who is interested in addressing America's most pressing problems AND rationally looks at the evidence, ends up becoming a YIMBY.

Hank Green

@hankgreen

7 months

I think a harm of online activism is the "THIS IS ACTUALLY EASY" argument. I've seen lots of folks indicate that a single billionaire could solve homelessness, or that there are 30x more houses than homeless people so we could just give them all houses. These words are

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

4 years

Seven years later, in 2020, a property that could've had 72 homes, including 60 affordable senior units, will instead have 16 massive single-family homes expected to sell for $5 million each:

Fierce, 7-year NIMBY battle in Palo Alto reaches a conclusion

��The irony abounds,” says one affordable-housing advocate. “It’s the textbook case to why we have a housing crisis.”

www.mercurynews.com

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

2 years

@gisellemarie @DeanPreston This is what real leadership and addressing your constitudents' most pressing concerns looks like. @DeanPreston should take notes.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

1 year

@evolve_ca I live in Berkeley and oppose Prop 13. The community here wishes Evolve CA would stick to its core mission instead of diluting the mission with whatever grievances one of its staffers happens to hold.

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@mldunham

3 years

@bufordsharkley @DeanPreston This thing I said that looks super conservative? It's actually super *progressive*! I'm still the most progressive person on this site. Phew.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

4 years

In 2016, 82% of Palo Alto voters supported Hillary Clinton. It's a city that THINKS it's progressive, but its track record clearly doesn't support that. If you live in Palo Alto, I hope you'll get involved in the fight for a less racist, less exclusionary future.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

3 years

@DeanPreston Wut. I'm just here trying to lower rents on the Peninsula after San Francisco added a massive number of jobs and didn't build enough homes for those new workers.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

3 years

@cafedujord 😂 Jason Calacanis is literally listed in the current Hillsborough Town Budget as one of its top 10 taxpayers (pg. 222):

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

3 years

There's a mistaken strain of thought among some Gen X/Boomer politicians that Millennials buy "starter homes" the way they did. Reality is that buying a home in CA means financially leveraging yourself to the hilt in your mid-to-late 30s. That's your home until you retire.

Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

@louismirante

3 years

"My kids won't start off in Redondo Beach, and that's alright" - Todd Lowenthall, a RB CM

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

4 years

Watching ABAG Executive Board President and Berkeley Mayor @JesseArreguin try to explain why our region's paltry housing target is actually sufficient was a sight to behold. I'd love to live in his world where most cities treat their RHNA allocation as a floor, not a ceiling.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

4 years

Beverly Hills Councilmember John Mirisch is, unexpectedly, right about this. For suburban homeowners, housing and zoning policy is not all about money and property values. For many, the thrust of local policymaking is who does and does not "deserve" to live in their community.

(((John Mirisch 🌸)))

@JohnMirisch

4 years

Except Dougherty avoids a simple, logical fact: if it were really all 'bout the money for suburban homeowners, they would heartily embrace his WIMBY upzoning, housing commodification schemes, as they would increase property values both quickly and exponentially.

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1 year

@IDoTheThinking Strongly recommend the "Sold a Story" podcast on this topic. TL;DR: A large # of American elementary schools have been teaching kids to read using an un-scientific and incorrect "cueing" methodology. Sounding out words (aka phonics) is much more effective

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@mldunham

1 year

@wwbein @FreethruJustice @sam_d_1995 My wife and I got two mattresses delivered from IKEA a few months ago. Delivery cost $90, they moved the mattresses to the bedrooms themselves, and removed the old mattresses for me. You really should've investigated that option before wasting your time like this.

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@mldunham

4 years

Optimistic meme

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

3 years

Every serious progressive who cares about making life better for as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, ends up a YIMBY. @AOC , @JesseArreguin , @MattHaneySF , etc.

Forbes

@Forbes

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HOUSING: Rep. @AOC : "The reason why people are on the streets isn't just some elusive housing or market phenomenon, it's also because we've chosen not to build."

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For context: Palo Alto's median household income is $157k, and the city is just 7% Black or Latinx. The neighboring city of *East* Palo Alto has a median household income of $65k and is 74% Black or Latinx. Here's a photo of the highway overpass that divides the two.

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@mldunham

4 years

@swinshi I too prefer to distract people from the lack of evidence for my thesis by arguing about side issues.

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@mldunham

2 years

@nedmiles The Free Speech Promotion Committee will review your tweets to see if they adequately promote free speech and reward or punish you accordingly.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

4 years

@LiberallyLiving @DeanPreston @mattyglesias Because San Francisco refuses to build enough new housing relative to demand. Supervisor Preston has personally blocked new, no-displacement housing in his district due to a mistaken belief that essentially all market-rate housing is bad.

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@mldunham

5 months

@matt_slotnick @BikeSouthBklyn Yeah, this is wild. Prioritizing anti-corporate vibes over the safety of bicyclists.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

6 months

@BerkeleyScanner That driver has to have run the stop sign if they had enough speed to kill a pedestrian. That driver needs to be in prison, and I hope your reporting will follow up on the police and DA response to this. We can't let dangerous criminals kill Berkeley residents and go unpunished.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

4 years

@SierraClub Addressing this would be a good start:

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

4 years

@aburisushii @silvershelters I think the actual DSA take is that they want low-income folks to have better housing, but any path to that but government-owned social housing is immoral. If someone will make a profit off of poor people having better-quality housing at similar or lower rents, that's bad.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

4 years

Despite the obvious data on the housing shortage and Palo Alto's especially egregious role in it, 3 out of the 7 current city councilmembers got their start in local politics by opposing not just housing but *affordable housing for seniors.*

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@mldunham

7 months

Is it a coincidence that the people that talk in the most morally judgmental terms about YIMBYs are also the most morally bankrupt personally?

John Avalos

@AvalosSF

7 months

They’re only interested in stroking themselves and their fellow capitalists. The math works well for their profits only when they can build — but not in building anything working people need and can afford. Their fragility is tied to their knowing deep down they’re dead wrong.

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@mldunham

3 years

@DeanPreston @adayNU @ezraklein The SF Board of Supervisors has chosen, repeatedly, to concentrate new housing in redlined areas and continues to do so today:

Darrell Owens

@IDoTheThinking

5 years

When San Francisco's political groups and Board of Supervisors says that Senate Bill 50 targets low-income neighborhoods, check this out: Left: A map of SF's racial redlining (1930) Right: Where SF, through local control, chooses to place new development at (2018) Wow [1/3]

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@mpukita @JonahDispatch @elonmusk @mattyglesias @Twitter I'm sorry my word was too big for you.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

3 years

@openthegreathwy @D4GordonMar @LondonBreed @conniechansf Sad to see all the children disappear who would otherwise be out there. Too dangerous for them now with so many cars around.

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@mldunham

1 year

Weird how there's a strong correlation between being a NIMBY and acting in anti-social ways.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

2 years

@Dodge Text for searchability: @Dodge : Tag someone you’d like to drag race.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

3 years

Palo Alto has the chance to build dense, low-carbon emission housing next to Caltrain, and they're probably going to turn it down. We'll never solve climate change if cities continue to prioritize height limits over transit-oriented development. Cc: @JoshBeckerSV @AsmMarcBerman

Palo Alto YIMBY

@PaloAltoYimby

3 years

Palo Alto is about to decline Stanford's offer to build hundreds of homes next to the busiest Caltrain stop outside SF. They want to put apartments by the freeway instead.

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@mldunham

3 years

I TOTALLY believe he opposes legislation to make it easier to build 2-10 unit buildings in his city because of equity concerns. Palo Alto home prices, btw:

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

8 months

@seanmc_99 @RamVasuthevan How many members of Congress would vote yes on this vision of housing? Just trying to get a gauge on whether this could feasibly happen in my or my child's lifetime, or if we should try other things first (e.g., legalize multi-family housing in high-demand neighborhoods).

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

2 years

@JohnBauters @derivativeburke But what if someone ends up not liking the aesthetics of your approach?

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

1 year

Baby Boomers got to spend their childhoods in new, modern homes. Must've been nice!

Jake Wilde

@awildjank

1 year

Threw together a map showing in which decade the greatest number of units were built by Santa Clara County census tracts for an assignment.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

3 years

Being pro-housing is popular and any Peninsula politician with ambition should recognize that.

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

4 years

Great piece, but one quibble: Palo Alto's city council only voted to undo the residents-only rules in Foothills Park after a lawsuit from the ACLU, not because of an epiphany about equity. Sadly, the council is more NIMBY than ever after the 2020 elections.

farhad manjoo (former bluecheck)

@fmanjoo

4 years

Berkeley was the birthplace of racist single-family zoning. Last week it finally undid the terrible practice. It’s one small sign that California’s housing politics are finally getting more humane, equitable and rational. My ⁦ @nytopinion ⁩ column

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Mike Dunham

@mldunham

10 months

@GlobeOstriker Found an entire town of homes like that!

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