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YIMBYLAND
@YIMBYLAND
As a Texas YIMBY, this is what I have the most respect for about the CA YIMBYs. They are Sisyphus and the housing crisis is the stone. The amount of grit and determination they have is insane. I’m so stoked for them and for California.
Two black-and-white drawings. The top drawing depicts a stick figure labeled "YIMBYs" peeking through a door with the text "ARE YA WINNING, YIMBYs?" above. The bottom drawing shows a muscular figure pushing a large, tangled boulder up a hill, with the text "Yes." below.
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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐
@JeremiahDJohns
What's impressive about California YIMBYs is that they don't get everything they want every year, but they keep coming back and adding more each session. California still has far too much red tape and NIMBYism but they're whittling away at it year by year, bit by bit. x.com/mnolangray/sta…
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Jay Parsons
@jayparsons
💯 the CA YIMBYs have also done admirable job staying singularly focused -- undistracted by traditional partisan boundary lines that often ensnair other movements.
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zach_the_lizard
@zach26655
Is there a state-level YIMBY index floating around somewhere? I'd be interested in seeing how all of these changes (such as the recent Texas mixed use bill) stack up. Makes it easy to see how much progress has been made and how much more needs to be done
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rooz
@atroll12345
Get this nimby yimby sht outa here. The easiest account to mute. No idea why this junk showed up on my feed. No one cares about ur sht.
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Brian Hanlon
@hanlonbt
Yes.
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Brian Hanlon
@hanlonbt
Replying to @hanlonbt @Scott_Wiener and 7 others
Thanks to my board and donors. When I pitched @natfriedman and @zack on starting California YIMBY at a bar 8 year ago, I first wanted to run a big TOD bill. I still remember Nat asking if we were being ambitious enough! SB 79 mostly sticks to the original 2017 plan: 6/x
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Mark N
@mviski
It’s funny because I get all these texts saying “call your state senator to support this pro-housing bill,” but my state senator has been fighting the good fight all along (Scott Wiener).
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Jesse Smith
@OfBronzendBlaze
The housing crisis in CA is entirely solvable. If they’d just repeal Prop 13, the taxes would force Boomers out of valuable homes. When the market adjusts, big money homes fall, starter homes fall, rent falls. AND local tax revenue increases Win win win win
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🍊Margaret
@teragramus
Exactly… this fraud will just roll back down on them as soon as the astroturf money runs out Generation fail needs to fail to be happy
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MLimpatient
@MLimpatient
Always thought *I* was Sysiphus. Ah. But why would *you* want to put the stone on a mountain & say that to it? So that it stops trying to understand. Won't. Got a consistent view on it. Will improve it if possible, and in the meantime keeping it.
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