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I'm not familiar with the YIMBY stance on Prop 13, but as an advocacy group that endorses local measures, you could join and promote propositions that would eli
by justinzollars 8y ago
I'm not familiar with the YIMBY stance on Prop 13, but as an advocacy group that endorses local measures, you could join and promote propositions that would eliminate 13 - and have a real effect as our voter guide is sent to tens of thousands of bay area residents.
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- zapita 8y agoI generally approve of Yimbi, but eliminating prop 13 is not something they have the influence or the scale to accomplish on their own, or even to lead in a credible way - not even close. California is very large, and prop13 is very popular with a majority of the state’s population. It would take a landslide political change at the state level to revert it, and an alliance of diverse political interests unlike anything that exists in California today (to my knowledge).
- justinzollars 8y agoTrue. But you could say exactly the same thing about any advocacy group. Its a big country. Its a big state.
- zapita 8y agoYou’re right of course. I just think reverting prop13 is important enough, and difficult enough, to warrant creating or joining an organization solely dedicated to that one issue. I feel like pro-housing Californians tend to tuck it into a tactical bullet point, instead of appreciating it for the root cause that it is.