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Armand Domalewski
@ArmandDoma
you wonder why there’s a housing shortage and then you see elected officials like this who see every new proposed housing unit as an opportunity to fund a dozen other social goals
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Lincoln Restler
@LincolnRestler
Replying to @harryh @CMSandyNurse and 20 others
That’s not the point. I support new housing in my district - but we also negotiate deeper affordability, union jobs, & significant investments in Parks and other infrastructure to meet needs of growing communities. This Commission has decided that shouldn’t happen any more.
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Armand Domalewski
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Armand Domalewski
@ArmandDoma
Replying to @RealPPPolitics
the reason housing is unaffordable is because we make it very hard to build, the social goals you talked about are important but we should fund them through broad taxes, not taxes on the thing *we have a shortage of*
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Pressure Point Politics
@RealPPPolitics
Scoffing at goals like affordable prices for housing; fair pay and protections for workers who build housing; and improving the physical area around that housing as "social goals" might be why you abundance guys are having a tough time.
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Armand Domalewski
@ArmandDoma
the reason housing is unaffordable is because we make it very hard to build, the social goals you talked about are important but we should fund them through broad taxes, not taxes on the thing *we have a shortage of*
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Zac Hill
@zdch
Fixing up my house involves dealing with a bunch of different problems, some of which will need a hammer, some a screwdriver, some a wrench. I can acknowledge all those different problems without also requiring every tool to become a hammer-screwdriver-wrench-chainsaw.
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casemation
@casemation
We need the left to see that funding social housing needs to broadly funded not specifically a tax on market housing. We can get way more funding for social housing this way. Like food stamps it needs to be a large thick system not acute
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Dennis Shoup
@DennisShoup1
“We know there’s a food shortage, but we have an opportunity here to force the farmers to also manufacture screwdrivers, which are important for a well fed populace.”
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hArIs
@kingharis
This happens at all levels of government now. Every bill that "must pass" will be loaded with just enough stuff to make it barely palatable. True in Congress, true locally. And if everything is a party line vote, it even makes sense. I hate it.
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Hooded Justice ⚖️👨🏾‍⚖️
@tragic_maverick
The housing crisis is a social issue. Building housing w/o any affordable units just leads to more displacement. The affordable units aren’t getting built. Even the bad apartments are charging an arm and a leg. More housing of all types need to be built. Not just “luxury” studios
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Voice of Reason
@CogitateThis892
Intersectional thinking is the bane of progress. Progress is made in steps, requires work and compromise. Leftists think that progress is all or nothing, must make massive leaps and bounds that appease their demands, or burn it down. They are unserious and delusional people.
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Sean C
@coaks604
This is why activists can’t run anything or get anything done. Everything gets diluted into an omnicause instead of focusing on actionable goals and building up from there.
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Andrew Kalish
@andrewkalish
I’ve been a YIMBY since before you knew what FAR meant. You’re wrong on this. Lincoln is as pro housing as they come, he also fights really hard to make sure the promises made are actually kept. Do us a favor focus on electeds who are actually problems.
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Charles
@Charlesaf3
everything bagel liberalism achieves no results. Hard enough to achieve 1 thing at a time in this life
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Real Name
@ExactlyBackward
"The issue is never the issue, the issue is The Revolution" strikes again God forbid they don't try to solve The Omnicause and instead limit themselves to focusing effort on triage-ing any sub-cause
William Banfield
@BillyBamf
In fairness, he represents greenpoint, which has become wildly NIMBY. He is trying to represent his constituents. I disagree with their goals but those are their goals
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Brandon
@Amb8819
You’d have to step on many democratic constituencies to stop this, I doubt it’ll happen at scale.
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RGBernman
@rgbernman
Problem bundling 101, the Progressive version of Tenet. One step forward and backward at the same so nothing gets done. Rinse and repeat
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Double A
@80espiay
I think there’s a balance, you need to fund mixed-use development at least, not just endless housing
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GrouchyMan
@grouchy89964
The classic NYC shakedown, the mob would be proud. Nice housing proposal you got there, would be a shame if something happened to it.
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TheUnsaid
@TheUnsaid11
"We'll allow you to use your property & money to build housing only if you sell or rent it at a loss, and fulfill our list of 1000 demands..."
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coleus
@solanusdc
They’ll add a dozen townhomes they go off on a tangent how they’ll need to build a whole new school, police station, replace every mile of sanitation sewer, and resurface miles of roads surrounding it.
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Samson Bigglesworth
@bigglesw1
Here’s what these people don’t understand because they don’t have any real world experience or training: If you make it easy for builders/developers to build they will happily include parks and schools in their development plans and build them for you.
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Carl Pham
@CarlPham9000
Aided and abetted by pundits and agitators who want the problem solved by Moar Government. If only we had a Golgafrinchan Ark B.
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Poi
@poiThePoi
At this point, it's not even the housing shortage. You can solve that by deporting the Indian H1Bs. It's how old and moldy and rotten the entire housing stock is.
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OptimisticCynic
@TransparentHRC
I want new housing as long as it costs as much as possible to build with lots of added money funneled to my pet projects and my donors.
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