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Density isn’t “solving” things. It’s allowing more people to live near their jobs. It’s not supposed to solve the housing crisis. But not doing it is a problem and makes things work as long as people keep moving to cities & displacing current residents.
— share the cities Action Fund 📣 🥑 🏩 (@STCActionFund) April 14, 2022
“Density is not supposed to solve the housing crisis!!!!!😤🍼😫”
(Laura, wut?)
Still having trouble finding the #YIMBYtown events but the lobster here is better than we expected to be honest
— AURAE: An AURA for Everyone (@AURAEAtx) April 13, 2022
we are not in Texas, Calan; we rode our bikes to the airport and took a flight to Portland for #yimbytown and it seems like people have been avoiding us the whole time. and it's SO COLD HERE.
— AURAE: An AURA for Everyone (@AURAEAtx) April 14, 2022
can't wait to post my trip report from #yimbytown to #atxurbanists I expect there to be no further questions and just a lot of applause
— AURAE: An AURA for Everyone (@AURAEAtx) April 14, 2022
I have to really disagree with whoever said, “don’t meet your heroes.” I met at least a few of them at #yimbytown and couldn’t have been more impressed. So, so proud to have spent the week with folks working to solve one of America’s biggest problems.
The public should know your employee and #YIMBYtown event manager lives in a condo where a YIMBY developer evicted black renters. It rattles very few. https://t.co/JnQ8eZ7ZZs
Inventory (I have names) Portland YIMBYTOWN attendees: ✔️ Single family home, sheltered by trust ✔️ Living in 400k co housing, evicted black renters in another co housing complex ✔️ Working for #SightlineInstitute living in unit of those evicted rentershttps://t.co/geUKnNAI1L
I found a hater posted a bunch of great photos from the YIMBYtown conference last week and I wanna know where they got them all! Who has a good album or collection of photos? (I don't want to publicize the post, but will provide on request)
About Portland – Nobody cares a YIMBY leader evicted black renters – We in fact reward him: Honored host of workshops at YIMBYtown conference, seat on city sustainability commission. Fellow presenters: @candaceforpdx@stephrouth – Density without regulation is just gentrification pic.twitter.com/qVa5Gu2ZGX
“Nobody cares a yimby leader evicted black renters”
Every now and then someone messages me and says, "I want to get involved in YIMBY advocacy, but my city doesn't have a group." You could be the most important YIMBY: the first one! Show up, speak your piece, and document everything on Twitter!
Gosh, could it be that “every single city😤🍼😫” is onto your yimby bullshit, Ceiling Gaze Boi? Gosh, maybe that’s the reason, I mean, like, who knows, right, but, like, maybe🥺😭.
Yeah, even assuming rent control can be desirable, it seems like it should treat newcomers and long-time residents more or less equally. Otherwise, you end up minting Fuelgrannies.
Not necessarily! For example: it's really easy to kill yourself with a knife, if you want to, and suicide is something that we definitely want to discourage. Yet banning steak knives as a suicide-prevention policy would be bad policy (because we could no longer cut steaks)
She had a whole thread mocking people's physical appearances (including photos she'd taken herself at CB meetings and such). Genuinely toxic personality.
Photos I’ve taken? Huh, Danny: I think you have me confused with Casey Berkovitz
No, Dan, I just do screenshots of yimby avatars and create content about how all of you, like you yourself, are young white tech guys.
But here, curiously, is your pal Casey Berkovitz holding his cameraphone on me instead of public commenter (and his fellow OpenNYboard member) Amelia Josephson during Manhattan Community Board 2’s infamous (“chaotic”) June 2021 meeting: I wonder if he had suspected that I was going to murder Josephson so maybe he had wanted to make sure he caught my vicious soon-to-happen crime on film.
I ended up, instead, calling Josephson a “shill,” because, you know, she’s the listed on the 990 form for a real estate development lobbying group so.
And my daring to call Josephson, a transplant from Alaska who haunts Landmark Preservation meetings for the sole purpose of disparaging architectural preservation and appreciation, a “paid shill” apparently *was* akin to physical violence, at least to OpenNY Executive Director, and highly paid shill himself, Will Thomas.
“She’s the nicest person in the world!!!😤🍼😫” Thomas whined to me, one month later, after CB2’s full board vote in July 2021 which almost unanimously voted against the rezoning of SoHo NoHo.
(And it very well may be that Amelia Josephson is the “nicest person in the world😤🍼😫” but she nonetheless still remains a real estate development shill.)
ONY’s Thomas was livid with me: “And stop retweeting us too!!!! Gawd!!!!😤🍼😫”