Cea Weaver

don't want to wade into housing discourse which i usually (miraculously, somehow) stay above but the whole "affordable for whom" narrative amongst progressive housing orgs seems like it has been a major strategic misstep for those of us who want to expand public/social housing

This take is deeply disturbing to me and frankly harmful to the work many people are trying to do to stop displacement. The fact that you think you’re ‘above’ the discourse

which part of the take do you think is disturbing? i don't think anything i said here is really all that controversial - building a bigger base for public/social housing that serves all

Hmmm. Rezonings are not social housing at all. Building a broad coalition together to support actual social housing and to protect NYCHA from privatization is a great idea. It is already happening.

That’s my point! I dunno I guess it’s best not to discuss this on Twitter but I’ll try: 1/3 - rezoning ≠ new development of social housing, I agree! and rezoning debates talk abt subsidy far too little, as @jennyaction points out. It’s a dead end imo!

- new social housing construction will require rezoning, especially in exclusionary neighborhoods - I think that social housing should be mixed income, and serve people at a variety of income levels 2/3

- therefore. I’d like to STOP talking abt “affordable to who” and start talking about long and short term public value. In my thread, I say there are perhaps short term benefits that value private actors long term questions….