DJ Crimson
@djcrimson
If you ask me, “Where’s Oakland?” I’ll tell you it’s in my heart.
I try to remember to show a little grace when talking to normies who aren’t up to speed on housing discourse. As recently as 2018, one of the world’s most famous urbanists, @jeffspeck.bsky.social, was forcefully advocating for inclusionary rates of 10-30% as a best practice.
Time for me to continue my ongoing vendetta against these bozos, who now insinuate that Brayden and Stephanie from Ohio were the ones who hyped up Eminem on Renegade. No bro, I was making $14hr and living in Brooklyn at the time, the streets crowned Em for his verse. Nas was tapped into that energy.
It’s interesting that Matt Yglesias has used Platner’s implosion to focus monomaniacally on the importance policy moderation, instead of showing some introspection about his own judgment. To answer the question he poses here, I would feel much differently about Barack Obama if he had a Nazi tattoo.
I know it’s a bad habit to screenshot posts from the other site on here, but I fear that some people may have missed @besttrousers.bsky.social’s coldblooded ethering of that xenophobic dipshit.
People are rightfully laughing at the rest of the Chotiner interview, but this is the most revealing about the depths of Israel’s delusion. Their big peace plan is to turn Iran into a failed state with various warlords and militias fighting over fragments of territory.
Mott Smith usually has good takes, but “we should make it easier for lenders to foreclose on affordable properties and wipe out the covenants” is offensively bad.
This article misrepresents the strong academic consensus by cherrypicking a couple of obscure papers. Reading the rest of the article skeptically as a result.
It’s interesting, don’t get me wrong, but I’d want to see someone make a positive case for it as a city besides “it’s too dense for cars.” www.petersbigadventure.com/city-guides/...
Top issue is health care, and he’s comfortable voting for a black candidate…wait until he finds out that there’s another political party.
Kinda funny that a communist director gets frustrated with bureacracy and chooses filming locations based on tax breaks.
Honestly they’ve always been pretty closely intertwined In my mind. The way a radically new genre emerged from the rubble of Robert Moses and bad insurance policy is fascinating to me.
”A lot of experienced real estate investors lost money betting on Oakland” is not as satisfying as a good conspiracy.
I’ll be honest, I didn’t expect this guy to be mad that all the new housing supply in Oakland is making prices go down.
Villaraigosa says we need some sort of unit within HCD to hold cities accountable for building. Maybe we could call it a Housing Accountability Unit? Just spitballing. www.hcd.ca.gov/hau
It‘s a little too perfect that right-wing growth machine politics and pro-diversity left-NIMBYism both contain the seeds of their own destruction.
“What little gets built goes to the wealthy first” doesn’t strike me as a particularly workable synthesis of abundance and populism, at least on housing, where brand new units are usually the most expensive.
Snippet from a New Yorker interview with Steve Kerr. I always suspected he kept his mouth shut on China because of Klay’s Anta deal (among other thing)…glad to see it confirmed.