[sudo-discuss] WOSP – City of Oakland’s Plan for Gentrification: A Target For Anti-Displacement Activity : Indybay

[Sonja Trauss]

It's not pro development - it asks for a thing that is impossible.  The
thing they want is not on offer.

The thrust of the article is "stop the WSOP." The WSOP makes development
easier. You can't be pro development and anti a way for it to happen.

This isn't my first rodeo. The only result of this kind of rhetoric is to
slow and stop some building. Then the city is poorer for not having been
able to fully take advantage of the wave of capital.

Look at sf - people have been blocking apartment building for decades. What
has it got us? The buildings these people's predecessors blocked in the 60s
and 70s would be 40 and 50 years old now. A lot of it would be rent
controlled. We have less affordable housing now due to this type of
political rhetoric and organizing than we would have had with out it.



On Saturday, May 17, 2014, Romy Snowyla <romy at snowyla.com> wrote:

> Sonja you haven't read the article at all. It's pro development it just
> questions what kind of development .
>
> I'm not sure what interests you represent but the article is a fair and
> balanced point of view that needs to be heard . You don't even discuss
> anything in the article but bash app makers - we need to talk about social
> impact and the human lives of people who live in osklsnd right now
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 17, 2014, at 12:17 PM, Sonja Trauss <sonja.trauss at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
>
> On Saturday, May 17, 2014, Andrew Lowe <andrew at lostways.com> wrote:
>
> Sonja, no one is saying we shouldn't build new housing. But, this has
> nothing to do with population increases. Its about attracting more people
> from the outside to Oakland and attracting not just more people, but more
> rich people.
>
>
> The causation is backwards here. The rich people are coming/ here no
> matter what. THATS WHY developers and cities want to build. They see an
> opportunity and they want to take advantage of it. Cities are playing the
> long game: all cities go through periods of investment and growth then
> years of disinvestment and abandonment.
>
> We live in the result of yesterday's, yesterday's growth. The building I
> live in is 150 years old.
>
> Capital wants to build. Money is here trying to turn into infrastructure
> and housing. There is no other way this stuff gets built other than through
> private capital. Even when cities build things, what do they do? They float
> bonds - private capital has to decide a city is worth investing in.
>
> Let them build. The crash will come. The money, the bullshit app, will
> disappear. The new housing will still exist.
>
>
>
> There is no need to build expensive condos on San Pablo . no one in the
> neighborhood wants that but the landlords. A long time resident (more than
> 30 years I believe) on my block ( which is in this plan) was just evicted
> and the landlord for another place on the street is trying to raise the
> rent 50% in order to kick out my friends so he can build lofts.
>
> Suburban living is the solution to population increase,
>
>
>
> What
>
>
>
> not urban development. But again population increase isn't the problem the
> city is trying to solve. Their problem is that SF is rolling in tax income
> and they want a piece of the pie.
> On May 17, 2014 9:30 AM, "Sonja Trauss" <sonja.trauss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is an Orwellian notion of anti-displacement.
>
> In the face of increased population these people seek to build nothing
> new. I really can't understand what they think is going to happen when the
> population goes up but the housing stock doesn't.
>
> Sf tried that! Look what's happening there! It sucks!
>
> This is the saddest thing to me because all efforts like this do, is make
> building more expensive and difficult. That means the only things that get
> built are at higher price points. Or, if they're slightly successful,
> whole projects are blocked, and they miss the opportunity to get capital to
> build something useful, instead of something stupid like a new calendaring
> app.
>
> On Friday, May 16, 2014, Romy Snowyla <romy at snowyla.com> wrote:
>
>
> http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/18/18754399.php
>
> WOSP – City of Oakland’s Plan for Gentrification: A Target For
> Anti-Displacement Activity : Indybay
> [image: 1888463_10151853655272163_918216235_n]<http://advancethestruggle.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/1888463_10151853655272163_918216235_n.jpg>
>
> Advertisement for Public Release of WOSP in Feb. 2014
> March 29, 2014
>
> *Snapshot of the State and Capital in the Bay Area*
>
> If the Bay Area’s economy was compared to every other national economy in
> the world, it would be the 19th largest. The B
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