GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽

@georgiststeve

Urban economist from Aotearoa living in Seattle. Share rents. Build homes.

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· 4d

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· 5d

Mike's entire campaign for office centered on his opposition to the 100% affordable 625 Winslow Way project and arguing the State could not force us to actually build affordable housing. His feigned frustration is dishonest crocodile tears.

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· 6d

YIMBY Front's drone strikes on the Bad Takes Factory were an overwhelming success

Screenshot from IsItDownRightNow.com showing that Nextdoor.com is unavailable

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· 13d

me watching Bainbridge Island become subject to the Builder's Remedy

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· 15d

Here's the wording from the transcript:

Nelson: My question is, is Commerce actually taking the position that it does apply to us? And the reason I ask this is because if you look at slide eight of your presentation, you mentioned that the ADU regulations don't apply to us. And if you look at RCW 3670A 6814, the reason for that is because critical areas, right? And critical areas is in fact the exact same language that's used as an exemption to the builder's remedy in RCW3670A83511A3. And so I would encourage you to look at that, um, because I think there should be consistency between those two. And those are my comments. Thank you. Laura, any comment? Let me know.

Hodgson: Just to clarify on the critical areas piece, yes, we do realize it is the same piece, but it's under a different. framework of statute with regard to allowing affordable housing. And so, in consultation with our Attorney General, we did collaborate, we determined that it is important that critical area still be maintained. So a jurisdiction would — we interpret that to mean that a jurisdiction would still be able to uphold its regulations that support and maintain that critical area resource, but outside of that, so long as they can meet those requirements, development still needs to be allowed. So it doesn't mean that you can't just… you can't allow development. You just have to allow development that is protective of those critical areas.

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· 25d

Trump has officially killed more Americans in his needless war of aggression with Iran than Biden did while withdrawing from Afghanistan. The latter absolutely tanked Biden's approval, whereas the former is barely hurting Trump at all. Republicans are violent unprincipled fascists.

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· Jul 3

Fun fact: this guy hated inclusionary zoning right up until he realized he could use it to argue for downzoning and then castigate his political opponents when they don't take the bait.

Vote Mike Nelson.com campaign website "We should reject policies like market rate upzoning, inclusionary zoning..."

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· Jul 2

Thinking about her (the Golden Lady)

Meme reading:
"mom can we have" and [a picture showing the 1893 Chicago World's Fair]?
No. There is [1893 Chicago World's Fair] at home.
[1893 Chicago World's Fair] at home... [a picture of Trump's Great American State Fair, with the arch looking tiny and tacky with a ferris wheel behind it]

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· Jun 27

Total GeorgistSteve victory over NIMBYs.

A table showing upzoning of Floor Area Ratio and Lot Coverage for several zones on Bainbridge Island

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· Jun 27

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· May 31

See table and links to studies: Johansson 2008 www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/ta... Arnold 2008 www.oecd.org/en/publicati... Acosta-Ormaechea 2019: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... Sen 2023: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· May 16

how bro was moving

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· May 16

and ESPECIALLY the fall

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· May 16

and the winter

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· May 16

Maine is beautiful in the spring

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· May 15

Me: democracy doesn't work if you don't disenfranchise the anti-democratic. Democratic Governor Jared Polis: you mean like setting them free?

NYT article:Tina Peters, Colorado Election Denier, Will Be Freed by Governor
Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, commuted the sentence of Ms. Peters, a former county clerk serving a nine-year sentence for her role in a plot to examine voting machines after the 2020 election.

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· May 6

Meme depicting a man in a tattered suit, sitting around a campfire with children, explaining that “No, we didn’t boost wages or lower housing costs. And yes, the country got destroyed.But for one beautiful moment we got to enact a wave of racist violence against minorities.”

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· Apr 12

When we're right, we're right.

Meme captioned "how white liberals think fascism works", with a picture of a white man voting and saying "you're finished" and a picture of Viktor Orban with his hands up saying "no, pls"

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· Apr 9

My "I was not an Epstein victim" speech has got people asking a lot of questions already answered by my speech

NYT post:

The Epstein
Files

Melania Trump Says She Was Not a Victim of Jeffrey Epstein
Responding to what she said were smears, the first lady said she never had knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse. She called on Congress to continue investigating.

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· Apr 9

when someone says we should abolish property taxes:

A loaf of bread is for sale, and the sign reads "Pain du George"

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· Mar 28

Kitsap County WA says NO KINGS NO TRAITORS NO NAZIS

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· Mar 21

For those paying attention, this new paper out of Auckland (hi mum!) puts Patrick Condon's silly diagram out to pasture. Turns out that housing demand isn't actually perfectly elastic. Who knew?!

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· Mar 19

If you need more reason to watch, my presentation led one of my local NIMBY haters to send these deranged emails to a friend of mine.

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· Mar 17

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· Mar 12

update: omg

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· Mar 6

My friend has been working on a film in Saudi Arabia, and her production company are flying the entire crew out on a chartered A321 to Istanbul and halting filming. Her partner is understandably anxious.

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· Mar 6

I asked my wife's ChatGPT what it knew about me and this is what it came out with. Am I cooked, chat?

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· Mar 5

Pro tip: when you cancel your ChatGPT subscription, they give you a feedback form that is a great space for sharing historical facts.

Screenshot of a ChatGPT cancellation feedback form, where the box reads "In 1930, IG Farben became a major donor to the Nazi Party, and subsequently provided weapons to the German war effort and Zyklon B to the concentration camps. By 1951, the company had been dissolved and its directors had been jailed. Just something to think about."

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· Feb 25

Watching the State of the Union be like:

It is the meme which shows stick people sitting on a train, each of them with thought-bubbles to the same cloud, which reads "I can't wait for society to collapse so *my* ideology can rise triumphant from the ashes".

But in this case, the faces in the bubbles are: Susan B Anthony, MLK Jr, Lincoln, Hamilton & Jefferson

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽@georgiststeve· Feb 23

The discourse!