@TastelessAlex

Writer. Drinker. Humorist. Underachiever.

Joined October 2015
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San Diego NIMBYs will tell you the solution is to keep doing what we've been doing
unusual_whales
@unusual_whalesOct 23
The income needed to afford a home has pulled far ahead of what most Americans earn. You now need over $120,000 a year to afford a median-priced home, per the Atlanta Fed. The typical U.S. household earns $87,460.
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If Weiner and Raman both win their respective races, it shows everyone in California that NIMBYism is a dead end.
Giacomo Volpe 馃尮馃馃寪@_giacomo_volpe_Oct 25
Imagine being the most NIMBY of one of the most notoriously NIMBY city councils in the nation Electing Chan would send the wrong message to every CA pol who wants to get ahead
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Some developers should be bold and use the density bonus to go over the coastal height limit. There are some lots, especially on the corner of Mission Blvd and Garnet that are ripe for big developments
Saad Asad@realsaadasadOct 24
Pacific Beach and La Jolla have top schools and clean air but barely grew in 25 years; San Diego overall grew 18.5%. A fair housing nonprofit says build more coastal homes.
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One reason MAGA loves a centrally planned government is that they get to extract concessions for personal and political gain at the cost of American citizens
Josh Barro
@jbarroOct 23
This is strange. I was told the foreign countries pay the tariffs, so why would this help in the election?
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Moses Kagan
@moseskaganOct 23
Our society is being torn apart by the inability of many Americans to buy their own homes, yet the federal government taxes developers who build new, for-sale homes at much higher rates than it taxes developers who build rentals.
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The problem with this question is that the revealed preference is being close to good jobs and amenities. If this wasn't the case you would have random wealthy suburbs nowhere near urban job centers all over the country
Dion
@2024dionOct 22
Surveys consistently find that, in the abstract, something like 40% of Americans prefer walkable urbanism and 60% prefer suburban sprawl. Surprisingly, only a relatively small share of people have sorted themselves according to these preferences, in either direction.
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A major way local media has failed is by presenting housing opposition as a bunch of sober, rational smol beans fighting the powers that be when it's the exact opposite.
Jonathan Berk
@berkie1Oct 23
This video has over 1 million views, and I think it鈥檚 important to explain what I hope people take away from it. I'm not sharing it to shame the individual. He believes he's acting rationally and in the best interests of his organization within a system that has rewarded this behavior for decades. I'm sharing it to show how our housing permitting system works, where the levers of power are, and how they're used to block the housing we need. The problem isn't just the people pulling these levers. It's a broken system that makes blocking housing so easy. It's time to completely reform Massachusetts' housing systems and eliminate the levers of delay that have been abused for so long.
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They also see ministerial permitting as corruption because they don't get to block the development or extract concessions from developers at town hall meetings. Everything is backwards for them.
Scott Lincicome
@scottlincicomeOct 22
Hilariously insane. (But a nice example of how NIMBYs see YOUR property as THEIR property)
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There's something seriously wrong with these people
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The median price for a detached single-family home in San Diego is 1.1 million and a buyer would need a household income of 330k to afford to buy. It doesn't matter who used to live in a neighborhood or who currently owns, these are not working class neighborhoods.
SDUnitedCommunities@SDUnitedCommOct 21
Ah, the YIMBYs don鈥檛 get out much. The city is targeting historically non-white neighborhoods for density and high dollar developments instead of investing in infrastructure that would increase the quality of life for current residents鈥ho want to retain SFH neighborhoods.
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These people just lie about everything. It's all they do all day long. They oppose housing in every single neighborhood from Talmadge, to the coast to Downtown San Diego and then the lie about housing advocates who openly advocate to build homes in the wealthiest neighborhoods
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They have spent years complaining about ADUs in wealthy neighborhoods. They have spent years defending tbe coastal height limit. They have spent years opposing all legislation that would allow for more housing to be built in any neighborhood. They are shameless liars
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Airbnb killed the golden goose by not reining in their hosts.
Billy Binion
@billybinionOct 21
It's hard to think of a service that's declined as much as Airbnb. To stay in someone's apartment, there's a good chance the bill will rival a Four Seasons resort and it probably comes with an extensive chore chart. There's almost zero reason not to stay in a hotel at this point.
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How did it take them this long? If you're on the board of Airbnb, contact me for an executive position and I will fix all your problems.
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This also doesn't work. People become less generous when they are stretched thin. So many fascist authoritarian states came from depressed or stressed economies.
voriai5@voriai5Oct 21
the actual stated goals of many in the DSA left is to make things worse so that their policy positions get more popular and personally I think that is depraved and reprehensible.
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If I'm the Democrats, I'm launching an investigation into who funds these sudden migrations. I wouldn't be shocked if you found connections to shady Russian oligarchs and conservative mega donors.
Jeremiah Johnson 馃寪
@JeremiahDJohnsOct 21
It's amazing how these only ever seem to exist in the weeks leading up to major elections
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Ah yes...single-family neighborhoods. Commonly absent of upper middle class residents lol
SDUnitedCommunities@SDUnitedCommOct 21
YIMBYs want to eliminate SFH zoning so they can gentrify and destroy neighborhoods, forcing low income residents out of their homes and replacing them with their upper middle class urban white elites
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The best part of being a hotel housekeeper is returning home to your 1.2 million dollar speculative asset at the end of an 8 hour shift and an hour on the bus
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Basil馃А
@LinkofSunshineOct 21
Boomers will see happy families and friends drinking coffee and eating at a corner shop and think it鈥檚 the worst thing they鈥檝e ever seen
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NIMBY learns basic urban growth patterns that have existed since the steam engine and thinks it's some grand conspiracy. These people are so paranoid I would be shocked if they even did their own grocery shopping
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