And there's a reason that HONDA was passed quietly. There's countless "vacant" or last minute hotel permitted lots(with no intention of building a hotel) in the boroughs. Guarantee you if we count up all the affordable housing that'll come of HONDA, it'll be paltry..
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Replying to @IbzNorth @zekeluger and
WHY at the same time this "YIMBY" astroturfing is surging, "leftists" are taking up the YIMBY/NIMBY dynamic and advocating for historically racist housing policy? We can do better. It almost seems coordinated. Private/Public will never =social housing.
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Replying to @IbzNorth @zekeluger and
@ceaweaver It's time to bring this out into the light and discussed in public, because this policy stance is completely suspect and not supported by what is known. I wonder how many non-profit scammers are gathering clout by continuing to push toward Section 8 and private funds.1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
Replying to @IbzNorth @ceaweaver and
Exactly, why is
@ceaweaver pushing the state to subsidize landlords w/vouchers - Instead of new publicly owned low & middle income housing and existing NYCHA houses???

N E O L I B E R A L
& Yeah, HONDA is only $100 million, enuf for 200 units.https://citylimits.org/2021/06/08/will-new-york-make-good-on-pledge-to-convert-hotels-into-affordable-homes/ …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @zekeluger @IbzNorth and
Zeke. My thread was about how a universal voucher program won’t work and have unintended consequence and literally ends by calling for new publicly owned housing. What do you imagine me to be saying? Good god, please stop assuming the worst of me! We don’t know each other!
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Replying to @ceaweaver @IbzNorth and
Zeke Luger Retweeted Zeke Luger
Hi Cea
Thanks for getting back to me!
Please see my first comment I sent 11 hours ago,
Asking you to clarify what you meant by social housing!https://twitter.com/zekeluger/status/1496167828478738433 …Zeke Luger added,
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Replying to @zekeluger @IbzNorth and
I haven’t dug in on the CA bill but I basically mean publicly owned, democratically managed, robustly funded, affordable at a range of income levels, scalable enough to disrupt the market.https://shelterforce.org/2022/02/18/what-if-vouchers-arent-the-only-answer/ …
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Replying to @ceaweaver @zekeluger and
I more or less think of it as an umbrella term that could include public housing, but also other models that have emerged as a way for residents to exert control as public housing has been steadily attacked by the fed gov for years - i.e., CLTs
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Replying to @ceaweaver @zekeluger and
But CLTs are hard to scale up and rely on some of the same bad financing tools; I think they’re critically impt, hard to sustain without deep resident organizing.
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Replying to @ceaweaver @zekeluger and
Would love to get to a place where public housing programs are combining the scalability and public ownership of public housing with the commitment to community control and organizing of CLTs with the robust funding of Sec 8.
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Not one existing program does that! Not NYCHA, not our current CLTs, not vouchers. Because I organize primarily (but not only) renters in the private market, I tend to start with “how to we make privately owned housing more socially owned.”
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