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

isolates the # of people who will fight for increase in capital investment, targets middle class residents instead of government policy or large developers, etc etc. the question should be what value are we creating, what's the (short and long term) public benefit?

Overall I agree with the spirit of this, though I think there's still a lot of strategic value in asking "affordable for whom," particularly when we consider that the middle class (or what I would term "philanthropic" classes) have always defined who is "deserving" of housing.

also not totally convinced that SoHo/NoHo will have the short term outcomes that people are attributing to it, from here it seems more like a political statement (one that I happen to agree with) about who should be rezoned. But down to be wrong about that, and I guess we'll see?

Yeah would love to talk more!

always. though honestly would much rather talk about basically any other housing policy vision than rezoning. I'm constantly aghast at how much time and energy we've spent on literally the bluntest tool imaginable for the outcomes we want to see.

That’s kinda my point! That like either way this is a dead end discussion, we should be talking abt capital investment, regulations, $$$$ for operating

Like YES it’s affordable housing YES it’s a giveaway to developers, so now what