This type of dense, walkable mixed use urbanism is illegal to build in much of the United States.
Liam Dillon
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Liam Dillon
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- BREAKING: Group of homeless families in LA are taking over multiple homes — inspired by @moms4housing protest in Oakland
- RIGHT NOW: Activists are taking over two more publicly owned vacant homes in LA — across the street from a third they took over on Saturday. It’s a protest against vacancies amid housing and coronavirus crises
00:00 - If you had asked me who was most likely to go on a rent strike first, I would not have guessed The Cheesecake FactoryThe Cheesecake Factory tells landlords it will not be paying rents on April 1 trib.al/vSgSdam
- On this salary Caitlin Clark would qualify for low income housing in San Francisco
- Wealthy Silicon Valley suburb Woodside — median household income $250k — declares the entire town "mountain lion habitat" in an attempt to sidestep a new state law allowing duplexes on single-family home lots
- Remarkable. Just moderated a panel where the mayors of San Jose, Oakland and Sacramento all said they were in favor of eliminating single-family only zoning in their cities
- Rarely does this argument get distilled directly to its essence like this example sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F…
- Replying to @dillonliamThe homeless families — about a half dozen — are targeting properties in El Sereno they say are owned by @CaltransHQ.
00:00 - NEW: L.A. must rezone to allow for 250,000 new homes by October after the state rejects the city's housing plan. Potentially billions in affordable housing grants at stake. Me with @DavidZahniser
- Incredible. A new California state law allows nonprofits first right to purchase foreclosed homes so a Virginia-based nonprofit started buying homes in California and then flipping them at profit to finance their programs in Virginia.Replying to @e_baldiLast summer, two CA-based house-flipping corps created their own affordable housing nonprofits and began using SB 1079 to purchase and flip foreclosed homes, according to public records. Learn more: kqed.org/news/11923467/…
- People are always astounded when I tell them NYC has a larger homeless population than Los Angeles County. There are such fewer tents in New York because New York mandates sufficient shelter spacesunderrated how NYC’s right to shelter law basically means homeless tent camp discourse is not a thing there
- Awful story about UC Davis students camping out overnight in freezing weather to get in line to for a student housing lease for NEXT YEAR. And many of them didn't get it
