Posted on 01/28/2024 10:21:05 AM PST by grundle
When Rigel Robinson was elected to the Berkeley City Council in 2018 — just months after graduating from UC Berkeley — he was determined to tackle the city's housing crisis as its youngest-ever council member.
Little did he know that six years later, at 27 years old, he would be handing in his resignation notice.
As an undergrad serving on Berkeley's student government, Robinson grew passionate about building more affordable student housing in the notoriously expensive city. After being elected, he built on those efforts to shape the city government as the Chair of the Land Use, Housing, and Economic Development committee.
At the forefront of the housing debate that has long roiled Berkeley is whether to move forward with the university's plans to build 1,100 units of student housing and 125 units of supportive housing for homeless residents in a green space known as People's Park.
The park was the site of anti-war protests and other progressive activism in the 1960s and has long been a gathering place for the community and a homeless encampment. Meanwhile, the university is facing a severe student housing shortage amid a broader affordability crisis.
The issue has divided the progressive community, pitting pro-housing YIMBYs — which stands for "Yes In My Backyard" — against so-called "left NIMBYs," who oppose new development on the grounds that it hurts lower-income and marginalized people. In response, advocates for new housing development point to numerous studies have found that even the addition of market-rate housing helps bring down costs in a community and lowers the risk of displacement.
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Don’t expect him to learn a lesson. To him, Trump is still a Nazi and everything Republican is evil.
There's a real shocker. Welcome to reality, kid. Now go get a real job.
“The issue has divided the progressive community, pitting pro-housing YIMBYs — which stands for “Yes In My Backyard” — against so-called “left NIMBYs,” who oppose new development on the grounds that it hurts lower-income and marginalized people.”
BS. White liberals are the biggest frauds you’ll ever meet. They support affordable housing and helping the poor and the downtrodden, but they’ll say keep it on your side of town. Don’t put that housing and “those people” near us!
A young idiot learns that neighbors don’t want their property values ruined and bums next door.
Liberals don’t care about improving anything, they care about symbolism and feeling superior.
I would guess many Berkeley leftists own housing that is let at sky high rates to students. The last thing they want to see is more housing.
YIMBYS AND NIMBYS, oh my.
Just buy the kids a tent to live in so they will be used to it when they graduate.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/04/uc-berkeley-peoples-park-police-operation
In a midnight operation, hundreds of police officers descended on People’s Park in Berkeley, California, to clear out the activists and unhoused campers occupying the area, to make way for the construction of a housing complex for students.
By dawn, the park that was once the centre of the 1960s antiwar and counterculture movement was walled off with shipping containers and surrounded by police.
Berkeley poli-sci graduate: "Small, medium or large latte?"
Where did they put the homeless?
I read further down in the article.
Apparently they stuck the homeless in motels.
The university has also paid for motels to house people camping at the park. Advocates have countered that the temporary relocation of the unhoused has also caused confusion and tumult for vulnerable campers with complicated mental health needs and low chances of securing permanent housing after their motel stays expire.
It’s not just leftists who are NIMBY. I don’t want subsidized housing near me either.
Buying my first house in 1976 I hooked up with a RE agent. After viewing a few homes I saw one I loved and it was in my price range. She said don’t you want to look around the area first? Yes. So we drove down the street made two lefts and were about 1/4 mile west of that house were we came upon a huge open field.as she slowed to a crawl. I asked what might go in here. She said by ethics I could not say till you asked, but since you did subsidized housing. I said I guess that would be bad for the values of nearby housing. She said I am prevented from pointing that out but I might say that is an observation I might make!! I did not buy that house. Over the years after, property in that area did not do well. I did buy a home she was agent for three months later. I used her as sales agent for me years later. She was great.
we know exactly where Abbott needs to dump the next busload of savages
In Mexifornia it will be hard to tell the difference
-fJRoberts-
If you can’t get 1,100 units done, that means you can’t do anything.
There will NEVER be affordable housing in California, anywhere.
1. It costs a bare minimum of $125,000 to get building permits
2. It will generally run around $300,000 in costs to satisfy the Building department before you get all your permits.
3. It takes a Minimum of 12-18 Months to secure your first Permit to do ANYTHING, there is your first $125,000.
bkmk
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