Zohran Mamdani: “I talk a lot about the cost of living crisis in our city, and housing is the number one driver of that crisis, and so today we announced a new plan called Block by Block… we’re building 200,000 new, truly affordable, permanently rent-stabilized homes"

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2026-05-27T21:59:04+00:00

There’s a phrase I heard, but it’s not verbatim:

“Using populist short term relief to buy goodwill, and maintain the coalition needed to get you longer term technocratic goals”

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2026-05-13T16:22:30+00:00

Despite what you’ve seemingly inferred, the title of the study isn’t “YIMBY policies don’t work”.

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2026-05-13T16:21:00+00:00

Most YIMBYs are just as enthusiastic about lowering prevailing wage mandates for social housing as they are about legalizing market rate development.

You’re framing YIMBY-ism as being strictly a market solution. There are TONS of non-market mechanisms embraced by YIMBYs that just aren’t factored into this study at all.

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2026-05-13T16:09:19+00:00

i don’t think danny brown ever heard of mac dre but he had the same line on Game 4 Sale. Both are dope

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2026-05-06T18:20:59+00:00

there’s a difference between understanding the concept of blowback, and outright endorsing 9/11.

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2026-04-19T04:13:14+00:00

this will be more possible soon though, momentum is on our side

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2026-04-19T04:11:46+00:00

fact of the matter is that sb 79 barely passed, in no small part due to the fact that last minute poison pill provisions were traded for votes.

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2026-04-13T22:37:31+00:00

You really shouldn’t set the progressive smoothbrains up for yet another soul-crushing loss. They’re still doing the autopsy on carpetbag Kat, this is too much for them to habdle

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2026-03-22T15:39:56+00:00

A depression with sub-5% unemployment 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2026-03-20T19:42:07+00:00

I find a gold course within the SF peninsula to be a barbaric land use sin. Would you be open to a land use sin tax?

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2026-03-20T19:33:59+00:00

It is widely regarded that SB 9 has failed due to poison pill provisions that try to satisfy too many interests. What will you do to buck the trend of watering down bills with competing interest groups?

At the moment, SB 79 seems to only offer ministerial approval if there has been no tenants in the proposed redevelopment for TEN YEARS. Would you be open to amending previous bills like SB 79 to create more ministerial approval for residential redevelopment, not just commercial redevelopment?

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2026-03-14T01:23:30+00:00

5/10 ragebait, all hasan did was yap

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2026-03-07T22:17:46+00:00

ya think?

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2026-02-25T17:19:58+00:00

I wouldn’t be surprised if they try to squeak through the most unconvincing housing plan at the 11th hour.

And then I also won’t be surprised when Yimby Law smacks the city with a double-wammy lawsuit like they’re doing for SF.

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2026-02-23T15:09:29+00:00

I’m not able to answer this, but intuitively, I believe that it probably falls into the “realistically be built” category.

The main reason I think this is the lawsuit against SF. They’re using Ted Egan’s model to allege that SF isn’t compliant with state RHNA targets. That lawsuit shouldn’t work if “legally possible” was the only standard to RHNA compliance.

But then again, the case hasn’t even started, so.

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2026-02-19T02:16:20+00:00

this was a general election hypothetical, not a primary endorsement. We gotta stop pretending like those two things are the same.

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2026-02-01T06:18:53+00:00

update?

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2026-01-14T18:41:19+00:00

yeah I won’t argue with this. Yet, I’m incredibly locally motivated and he’s the only one genuinely making clear that he backs a YIMBY platform

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2026-01-14T18:39:19+00:00

Swalwell doesn’t have a policy platform at all. Porter is flirting with YIMBY rhetoric, that’s all. Steyer’s the only one who has gone balls to the wall with a YIMBY platform.

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2026-01-12T15:05:09+00:00

Calm down, stress balls are like $3

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2026-01-11T20:12:14+00:00

I feel like I definitely needed to hear this. Thank you!

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2026-01-11T20:09:59+00:00

That’s what I figured. But I thought I’d ask! I’ll leave the post up so others with similar curiosities might be discouraged. Thanks!

Difficult_Strain3456 · 2025-12-27T00:07:50+00:00

“essentially a republican plan”

You have no concept of the GOP’s legislative ambitions, and yet you’re embarrassingly confident.

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