Fuck the billionaires who’ve hijacked my city.
Boomer nimby’s ruined it long before that. It’s a beautiful city and I love to visit but their housing policy makes it unlivable for everyone but multimillionaires.
It is a hard thing to balance.
You don’t want to basically evict the current denizens when you gentrify and area however you also don’t want single family housing in a down town core.
Make San Fran Tokyo a reality. If you have a 4-car footprint make it a 10-story apartment or condo. If you build more units (and prevent people from sitting on empty units) the prices will do down or at least stabilize. It’s that simple. You also need to get people over the idea of home equity as a retirement plan.
Well the people who owned property took advantage of the situation and objected to development for often disingenuous reasons to keep the value inflated.
Fuck
yayeah!Now thats
- New York City (Mamdani)
- Los Angeles (Nithya Raman)
- Washington DC (Janeese Lewis George)
Show em how its done DSA
I would argue those are the three most significant cities in America , these will help the DSA to show what thry can deliver for America
Worth mentioning that we also have a democratic socialist mayor here in Seattle–she’s just not a member of the organization.
Nice. Can I ask why, does she have some ideological differences or whats the deal in your estimation?
Melat Kiros in CO-1 US House Rep as well, plus first GenZ woman to serve in Congress.
Good for LA
“Socialism” is no longer a scary word. That is something that I am going to celebrate.
Make no mistake, the ultra wealthy are determined to make it scary again. It’s just extremely difficult with the amount of knowledge people have access to.
Lot of big wins on local levels and Id wager those are gonna be more impactful than the federal ones.
IMO it’s a chance to prove a point. You can already see the benefit in NYC, and if Raman does fucking anything for the homeless you’ll see it in LA too. Concrete, real benefits that voters can see.
DSA all day!
Hellz Yeah!
CEEEEE LA BRRAAYYY TIONNN!
She’s beautiful.
She is a politician. We should concentrate on her competency and whether she shares values with voters that voted for her, not how she looks.
Side note, LA mayor doesn’t have as much power as NY mayor does and who we chose for the city council matters a lot, maybe even more, but that seems to receive less attention.
I don’t know, superficial positive comments about a politician’s appearance aren’t my favorite but also don’t make my bottom 50 list either. Plenty people commenting on Jon Ossoff being sexy don’t get downvoted
It legitimately blows my mind when people talk about the looks of politicians (both good and bad) before their actual polices and then to go onto a commit section to let everyone know how they feel LOL
Anyways something crazy about LA is LA county has a CEO that as far as I understand has alot more power so I doubt she will be able to do as much as NYC unless the county CEO has the same agendas.
