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> You will never see a left-leaning activist group representing the working class in California support a market-based solution like permitting more for-profit
by joshuamorton 7y ago
> You will never see a left-leaning activist group representing the working class in California support a market-based solution like permitting more for-profit development. If that ever happens, it will be despite these workers' objections.
That's like, literally, the entire platform of the YIMBY movement. These groups are by and large left-leaning, and activist groups. They generally support more market rate or affordable (or both!) housing. Basically any development.
- closeparen 7y agoYIMBY sits pretty far to the right as Bay Area politics go, and is primarily tech workers fighting against the DSA, tenants union, and other working-class coalitions.