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Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 8h

Drag coefficients are brutal at speed.

Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 10h

The risk of a rent reduction for a new home, and big payments to hire movers.

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Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 10h

He can make up whatever numbers he wants, there's still no grounds to say the rent controlled homes or any low income tenants are at any risk at all.

a man in a suit and tie is saying he 's a liar .

Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 13h

I don't care if you hate YIMBYs. You can smear us all you like. But any CADEM regional director that presents such blatant falsehoods about the "loss" of rent controlled housing needs to be kicked out of the party.

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Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 13h

Larry Gross.

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is saying he 's a liar .

Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 13h

Dear reader, it is illegal to replace rent controlled units with luxury housing. Rent controlled units must be replaced on at least a one-to-one basis.

Low income tenants get more than enough to provide them affordable housing until they're able to return to the new housing.

Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 13h

The lies, they continue in his links.

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a sign that says " very nice "

Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 13h

Totally normal response from a CADEM regional leader to the enactment of a CADEM supermajority endorsed housing measure.

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Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 13h

Update post Newsom's signature on sb79, which Larry Gross, California Democratic Party regional leader unsuccessfully opposed.

He's now blocked me for highlighting his blatantly misleading propaganda.

Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 10d

I think Larry Gross is being very misleading.

While sb79 allows demolition of rent controlled duplexes, state law requires relocation fees and right of return if there are low income tenants present.

LA also specifically requires the replacement homes to become rent controlled.

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Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 1d

Love me some PRC.

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a sign that says " very nice "

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Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 1d

That's for the clean up bill.

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Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe. The details are very fine. If any part of a station counts for example. I think the thing to do is wait for your local jurisdiction to make a map, and/or consult a lawyer if you're really interested.

Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 1d

Station in large city on border, parcels in small city get smaller radii.

Clear?

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Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 1d

The smaller radius is only for parcels in a small city.

The larger radius is based on qualified station.

So station in small city on border, parcels in large city get larger radii.

a microphone is behind a warning sign that reads disclaimer

Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 1d

What?!?!

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Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously the law is more complicated than these basic summaries. There's delayed application for unincorporated parcels for example. Don't rely on this, it's background not legal advice. Etc. Etc.

ALT: a microphone is behind a warning sign that reads disclaimer

a bald man in a suit and tie says " it 's bad "

Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 1d

My understanding is NY often funds their affordability mandates with things like tax breaks.

We .... Don't.....

ALT: a bald man in a suit and tie says " it 's bad "

Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 1d

Here in CA, there's big vibes of trust fund baby who's operating a nonprofit in the name of tenants, but advancing really bad policy. Feel good performatism over results.

Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 1d

Again, I don't see that from the likes of Mamdani. More like our Dean Preston, or our LA politicians behind ULA (transfer tax sold as taxing mansions, but with outsize impacts on modest apartment building construction, given a flat parcel value trigger)

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Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 1d

Inefficient*

Modeling Inclusionary Zoning’s Impact on Housing Production in Los Angeles: Tradeoffs and Policy Implications - Terner Center

Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 1d

There's a whole lot of "evil developer trope" here. Just tax the developer. And yes, they should be paying income taxes, but super taxes are counterproductive.

In general, the discounts are massively outweighed by the higher market rents. A very very inefifi wealth transfer.

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Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, it's that indirect subsidy via private provider that I worry about. Since in the end, those subsidies come from higher market rents as projects don't pencil.

Many of our "tenant advocates" in CA refuse to engage with that reality.

ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and...

Guest author Shane Phillips from the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies has authored a paper that uses the Terner Housing Policy Simulator to estimate the potential impacts of different inc...

ternercenter.berkeley.edu

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Upzone the coastal elites @aboutdave.bsky.social · 1d

So it's great policy when it's support for affordable housing, and bad when it becomes exclusively about affordable housing, going so far as to spite and market rate housing even when it has solid gold tenant protections.

I do love that Mamdani is not like that. He embraces the private market.