I want to talk about the racist co-opting by developers of civil rights language to denigrate and describe local residents who challenge big real estate. Quick THREAD on so called “NIMBYism”🧵

INDY Week He did the meme

Records show how a Durham builder proposed the SCAD text amendment, raised money to finance its drafting and application fee, and slapped on the name of a nationally beloved nonprofit as cosponsor without their consent. Reporting by @LenaRoseGeller. indyweek.com/news/durham/du…

This is a complete joke and shows a total lack of sophistication and understanding of the tools + warped class analysis. DSA are y’all letting this random person drag the DSA name to shill for capitalists? What is going on?

Trickle-down housing, pushed by Big Real Estate and YIMBY groups, doesn't work. In fact, it makes things worse, fueling #gentrification and displacement. We need more affordable housing to address the housing affordability crisis -- not more luxury! bloomberg.com/news/features/…

1 thing I said, not in article: what the bay area needs- for artists2thrive is low rent. We can only get it via RENT CONTROL. The article connects my quote w housing production- but that doesnt lower rents. We have 80k empty units in the Bay Area. Kept empty to keep rent high.

what a fucking joke. useless, leech of an organization.

YIMBYs: New York isn’t dense enough 😤 upzone and deregulate everything! The law of physics:

After over a year of promoting free market deregulatory YIMBYism, APA now cares about gentrification and displacement? If they’ve changed their ways that’s great, but it smells fake.

Anne Slifkin BartholomewHamentaschen 🟣 Nate Baker Doesn’t that account belong to a PA PAC board member? If so, this is incredibly concerning albeit not surprising behavior.

You dropped this, king 👑

We need leaders like Dean Preston in every state, at all levels of government - leaders who not only stand up to special interests, but also have the courage to address striking levels of inequality at their core. That's why I'm endorsing Dean for the SF Board of Supervisors.

Dean’s interventions on tenants’ right to counsel to COVID eviction protections to pushing **funding** for rent relief, SRO upgrades, landbanking for affordable production, affordable acquisition, etc — are CRITICAL & NEGLECTED ELEMENTS OF GOOD HOUSING POLICY. stay mad, haters!

Carolina Forward Odd take. In most cases should be more citizen engagement in the annexation/rezoning process, not less. Especially in the case referenced here, where 200 acres of protected watershed was annnexed for clearcutting for a sprawl development.