The blue areas are the only places in the Bay Area where it is legally permissable to build multifamily (aka affordable) housing. Your high rent is a direct result of this exclusionary zoning.
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Phil Levin
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Phil Levin
@levin_phil
All about happier / healthier / funner ways to live.
Founder @livenearfriends.
Founding team @Culdesac.
Lives @ Radish in Oakland
Writes Supernuclear
- I reckon that living near 20+ friends has doubled the fertility rate of our friend group. •Some had kids who wouldn’t have •Some had more kids than planned (inc. us) •Some had kids earlier [Shilling for the "housing theory of fertility"]
- Excited to announce the launch of LiveNearFriends I believe there actually is “one weird trick” for a happy life. It’s living within a short walk from close friends or family. LiveNearFriends is a tool to help you make that happen. —
- I talked to 20+ people over 55 about their ideal next home. Nearly all described some version of a privately-owned home in a Cottage Courtyard.
- Car-free Valencia isn't getting the love it deserves. So we threw a banquet (taco) dinner in the middle of the street. It was lit.
- I'm tired of hearing about people being a "voice for affordable housing." Just show me the units. How many were built in your district?
- We need new models for value capture from public goods (e.g. cool coffee shops). Retailers work their tales off to make a neighborhood what it is, but the value all flows to the passive long-time homeowners. (ex: bankrupt restaurants in Hayes Valley surrounded by $3m homes).Am posting this, from my friend Eric Weatherholtz, as a pic & not tagging him, in order to maximize distribution from the algorithm. It’s a ~priceless insight.
- Replying to @levin_philIf you were to change this exclusionary policy, your rent price would drop instantly. We wouldn't have to raise taxes to build affordable housing. Housing would just be affordable on its own, like it is in every other city that has legal multifamily housing.
- Fun fact: I moonlight as a tax policy analyst. @SPUR_Urbanist and I did a joint report on one of the most regressive laws in America: Proposition 13. And it's a doozy...
- Thanks to California's ADU law, we had a permit to build a new home approved in 72 days (2.5 months) Last time we did this, it took almost a year. Well done @Oakland @California_HCD @CasitaCoalition
- 1/ Our dataset shows that 20% of Bay Area homeowners - 250k homes - are estimated to be Housing Millionaires, meaning their wealth has grown by $1m+ bc of their home.
- How did Emeryville become the best biking city in the Bay Area @JohnBauters ? Just discovered the hidden bike bridge
- Replying to @levin_phil12 kids born so far in the group -- all under the age of 4.
- Replying to @levin_philImagine if the Bay Area showed the leadership and progressiveness on this issue that Minneapolis has
