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I support the goals of increased density and more housing. I can't possibly vote the YIMBY slate though, and have advised friends not to as well. The YIMBY sl
by djcapelis 10y ago
I support the goals of increased density and more housing. I can't possibly vote the YIMBY slate though, and have advised friends not to as well. The YIMBY slate supports candidates who are the opposite of folks I'd like to see in government. The YIMBY slate endorses people who have voted to restrict people's ability to sit and lie in public places, voted against police reform and voted to make it illegal to be naked in the Castro.
I'm sorry, but those issues are important and for me, many of the people the YIMBY slate endorses are on the wrong side of it.
We don't have to sell out our values to be pro housing.
Down with height limits, down with protracted approval processes for construction, down with many of the things that hold back progress in the city. Let SF reach toward the sky.
But also, down with the YIMBY slate. It's just a set of candidates who aren't what I want to see in the city.
If the YIMBY slate wants to back actual tangible propositions or policy suggestions, I'm all ears. When they ask me to vote for people they selected because they think they might be "pro-housing" (as if anyone in SF is really anti-housing?) then I'm going to tell them the people I select to represent me are my business.
I'm happy to advocate for pro-housing policies. But I sure didn't and won't vote that YIMBY slate, and for the sake of the city I live in, I hope it's soundly defeated.