Cea Weaver

The people and institutions upholding so-called “wealthy neighborhoods” themselves—bound up in exclusionary policy and racist custom—are a common enemy of both renters and homeowners in poor cities, no?

Depends on what policies you're pushing. If low-income homeowners are pushing local control of every development decision, as we are seeing from some in #NHV, then they are aligning themselves with wealthy suburbanites to the detriment of all renters.

Today’s homeowners in cities are tomorrow’s victims of the next foreclosure crisis. Today’s renters are tomorrow’s homeowners. Seeking structural change that is bigger than renter vs homeowner and socialist but helps the ordinary folks in both camps is good!

I'm hoping to make a difference this century, not next. And if you're really seeking that change you ought to be hanging on the doors of federal and state government, demanding dollars for social housing, not fighting a hyperlocal upzoning.

I’m with you on the rezonings—and I agree with focusing on state and federal government. I think the NYC folks last night were saying to do just that, bang on the doors for social housing. @ceaweaver’s exchange with LAA’s Atty. Eppler-Epstein on IZ, I thought, brought that out

Hi! So as one of the advocates, I have argued and argue *against* homeownership as a wealth-building all the time and have worked to build a coalition that explicitly brings together renters, public housing advocates, and the homelesshttps://twitter.com/ceaweaver/status/1191779890665852928?s=21 …

Homeownership is not in my vision for the future and I think it’s fundamentally incompatible with any real vision for economic justice. I also think we are in a political moment where more and more people are grappling with that.