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

[Sonja Trauss]

Right - the left is in their pockets, opposing development to maintain
scarcity and increase property values.

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

> It's so awful. The rich just pay off people to drown out justice. There's
> nobody to speak for the poor an defenseless on these matters . Even the
> left is in their pockets
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 17, 2014, at 12:40 PM, Sonja Trauss <sonja.trauss at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sonja.trauss at gmail.com');>>
> wrote:
>
> There's noticing to say - everyone that lives there is on a lease in a
> house. We already live here. The plan knows more people are coming, so we
> better have somewhere for them to live when they get here.
>
> The current w o houses are old. They rent for about $500/ bedroom. The new
> people coming can afford to pay more than that, and they want something
> newer than what is currently there. SO BUILD IT FOR THEM.
>
> If we don't build new buildings for new people the new people will move
> into our buildings and then we will have DISPLACEMENT.
>
>
>
> On Saturday, May 17, 2014, Romy Snowyla <romy at snowyla.com> wrote:
>
> I like how the Indymedia article discusses the humans currently living on
> west Oakland. What will happen to them?
> Why are these people not discussed in the plan? How come the elderly black
> people aren't being drawn in the architectural mock ups?
>
>  I'm not interested in discussing how useful or not useful calendaring
> apps are.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 17, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Jehan Tremback <jehan.tremback at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Romy, I'm pretty sure that all official municipal development plans have
> always been public.
>
>
> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Romy Snowyla <romy at snowyla.com> wrote:
>
> It's interesting how you're all so quick to attack the article especially
> when it makes a couple of good points.
>
> Not all of it is valid but it provides a needed transparency ..
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 17, 2014, at 10:48 AM, Jehan Tremback <jehan.tremback at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Suburban living is the solution to population increase? Explain?
>
>
> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Romy Snowyla <romy at snowyla.com> wrote:
>
> I don't see anything wrong with Indy media although I don't agree with
> everything they say. They aren't driving rent up though so don't place all
> the blame on rent control. Any new real estate development will provide
> relatively few affordable units for shrine class people
>
> My main motivation for passing the email along was just so everything is
> clear and not obfuscated . The master plans in sf that have transformed the
> mission like Godzilla were never very clear to the public
>
>
> I don't understand the need to disparage calendar apps or apps in general.
> Many innovations are through things like process or paper checklists
> instead of 3D printers and drones. Being dismissive of those innovations is
> illogical
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 17, 2014, at 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
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