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.
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(and, addendum, when we're talking about power and self-interest, it's pretty important to disaggregate "real estate" into developers, property owners &, yes, homeowners. they overlap but they've got different interests, different motivations, different ways of exerting power).
for social housing. 
Agree w that last point. But it’s pretty wild to assert that homeowners and renters have incompatibly divergent interests and that renters and developers actually have a shared material path forward.
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Developers and landlords’ business model literally exploiting the basic need to have a place to rest your head. The
#HomesGuarantee demands 12M new units of social housing - that’s will require upzoning suburbs. Still don’t think developers won’t fight it! -
And farmers are bad because their business model is exploiting the basic need for you to eat? Admittedly equally simplistic, homeowners wants prop values to go up and that's bad for tenants. I guess, these convos are better in detail rather than in the Twitter abstract.
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