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My latest article explores the drastically different welfare impacts of new luxury housing by income level, and how this should impact housing policy.
harlo.substack.com/p/who-benefi...
No, it does not cost $1M to build a unit.
Hard costs on 1633 Valencia which is wrapping up & the chron wrote about are about $575K/u or $564/sf. The project at 250 Laguna Honda, which is getting going, is $610K/u or 578/sf.
@sfchronicle.com needs fact checkers
The city should buy this portfolio and leverage Prop I revenue to make it happen. This would be consistent with the vision of the voters, the BOS, and our office in passing Prop I in 2020. Let’s seize the opportunity to jumpstart a real social housing program and do this now!
Major local NIMBY initiatives being pushed by SF YIMBY politicians right now:
-Banning RVs that house families
-Banning shelters in neighborhoods across the city
-Diverting $80m Prop I revenue from social housing
-Blocking affordable housing at Parcel K
-Raiding Prop C supportive housing money
What could social housing look like in San Francisco? And how do we get there? A reading and discussion of: - Budget & Legislative Analyst's Report - Housing for the 99% from the SF Berniecrats Tuesday, 7/22 7pm - 8pm DSA SF Office, 1916 McAllister DSA SF Social Housing Reading Group co-hosted by the Ecosocialist Working Group and the Electoral Board Background: art of a solarpunk looking San Francisco with wind turbines and solar panels and roof gardens on new apartment buildings, with a long-haired woman on a balcony holding roses in the foreground. The art is "The Fifth Sacred Thing" by Jessica Perlstein.
Want to plant the seeds for social housing in San Francisco 🌱? Come join us from 7-8PM on July 22 at the DSA Office for our social housing reading group!
actionnetwork.org/events/socia...
An essential read from Sandeep Vaheesan that provides a classic take down and a key counter-narrative to the "abundance" discourse that's capturing the imagination of too many neoliberals. We need public power, not private tyranny. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
Congrats to @tenantstogether.bsky.social on #SB436 passing the CA Senate! Tenants only get 3 days notice to pay overdue rent before eviction proceedings can begin. This lets tenants resolve the suit by paying back rent after that, preventing evictions and homelessness. 21 other states allow this
YIMBY Supervisor has introduced legislation to block new homeless shelters across his district.
Mahmood’s ordinance would ban new shelters, outpatient clinics, residential care and treatment facilities, and transitional housing across D5, including much of Hayes Valley, NOPA, and Haight Ashbury.
We're now 8 points away from sending Andrew Cuomo back to the suburbs.
I wrote about why Austin is not the YIMBY success study its claimed to be. In fact, Austin can be seen as an illustration of the inadequacies of a market urbanist approach to housing affordability.
open.substack.com/pub/harlo/p/...
San Francisco could be 5 years into the boldest local social housing program in the nation. Instead, a YIMBY mayor for years blocked the funds voters and legislators had approved. Now, with a new Mayor at the helm, the City has a second chance to lead the nation. Will Mayor Lurie set things right?
you find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile. this is because american transportation policies have led to increasingly unsafe roads necessatating larger vehicles for protection, decreasing safety in a vicious cycle
submitting invoices late in the big FY24-25 🥲
no updates on my end
"Lurie is asking for $61 million for police overtime for this fiscal year, despite a city report from December that found police overtime costs had surged amid poor oversight and abuse of the system. "
missionlocal.org/2025/03/mayo...
late capitalist heck scape
Op-Ed: Supes Should Stop Mayor from Removing Carter-Oberstone from Police Commission - sf.streetsblog.org/2025/02/24/o...
Solid choice. A mainstay
Why do you hate abundant transit service
its Policy Thursday. what are some of the best policies?
"everyone rags on the middleman until they need someone to be in the middle of them and something else"
This, but attorneys, unironically
Credit: @harlopippenger.bsky.social
One of Them Days (2025) while a charming buddy comedy, ultimately presents individual striving for petit bourgeois status as the antidote to racialized capitalism
- my latest for Letterbox
crapitalism
hard to get traction on this site
Well, that didn't take long. Self-described "moderate" does Nazi salute on day one of new administration
Japan
Economists used to insist minimum wages increase unemployment until enough counterexamples forced most to admit "FINE, they don't." One day rent control will be similarly accepted.
Prices reflect the balance of power between buyer/seller. Supply and demand affect that balance, but so does politics.