2026-07-29 18:47 UTC
If you were wondering how the SF #YIMBY movement is going, they’re cheerleading for ending the requirement for developers to plant trees when they’re *already tearing up the sidewalk anyway*.
Why bother to fund permanently affordable housing, ban sprawl, or shift highway subsidies to transit? Much easier to promote density by having cities be polluted, gray, and dead anytime some developer says it’ll save him a few bucks.
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@Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 2026-07-29 18:55
@scott@carfree.city Everything I hear about SF YIMBY reminds me of metrics nerds & POSIWID thinking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does). a: "Housing is unaffordable & rent is too high, what do we do?" b: "The research says we have to build more housing" a: "Great, that's our metric, how much housing we've built." b: "What about trees?" a: "Sorry, we need to build more housing." b: "Rent control? People are being tossed out!" a: "It's not helping us build more housing" b: "Kids asked for parks.." a: "DID I STUTTER?!"