San Francisco is facing challenges in affordable housing with nonprofits like TODCO blocking construction despite receiving government funding. BART is relying on a 2026 tax measure for financial survival, but it may not reach voters' ballots. The city's history of collective decision-making hinders housing development, leading to a housing crisis.
BART is placing all its hopes for financial survival on the public approval of a sweeping 2026 tax measure to save the regional rail system, but the high-stakes proposal may not even reach Bay Area voters’ ballots. https://t.co/W5VddAyTef
Time to shut down all the corrupt, misaligned non-profits in SF like TODCO: https://t.co/qRLm5IERgd https://t.co/78aYkdIfd7
A great article on the non-profit industrial complex's takeover of---and failure in---cities like SF. In my view one of the biggest questions in urban politics is why cities outsource public services to underperforming nonprofits. https://t.co/uijR2Z7cGo
NEW: @NYCMayor doesn't plan to hire any outside experts to staff his charter revision commission, adding to the idea it's all a political maneuver to block the City Council from expanding its oversight of mayoral appointees. @joeanuta with the latest: https://t.co/ETQkFhKugi
We're excited to announce that we have early endorsed the following badass candidates for the November 2024 election: Mayor: Aaron Peskin Supervisor, District 1: Connie Chan Supervisor, District 5: Dean Preston @AaronPeskin @conniechansf @DeanPreston https://t.co/OgtIdu9M0f
The League of Pissed Off Voters just endorsed the worst politicians in SF: Dean Preston, Connie Chan, and Aaron Peskin. If you want to Dump Dean, Clear Out Connie, and elect Anyone But Aaron, follow @GrowSF. We will bring common sense to SF in November. https://t.co/6cBHW00U7x
Wow 🤯 @AaronPeskin pulled out a who’s who of socialist and #RadicalLeft “progressives” who have, like him, collectively been in office or leadership roles for decades — and look where that got us. https://t.co/cXlpGiu1p0
“Millions and millions of dollars have been spent by AstroTurf organizations and a handful of plutocrats trying to spin that narrative. In the 24 years I’ve been in office, [we authorized] 100,000 housing units.” Tired old tropes @AaronPeskin. https://t.co/S5McUsSoHa
san francisco politicians like @AaronPeskin and @DeanPreston approve funding for nonprofits like @TODCOGroup who then spend the unaudited tax dollars lobbying for Peskin and Preston’s anti-growth policies sf progressives are a tax-funded grift https://t.co/ehJxQNWDG7
SF's collective decision-making helped prevent the city from being carved up by highways But today that legacy prevents SF from building what it desperately needs: more housing Writing this essay for @asteriskmag was a great excuse to dive deep into why SF is the way it is! https://t.co/TP2OS8T5rU
NEW: Almost 5 years after becoming San Francisco’s transportation director, Jeffrey Tumlin is hardly sparking joy. Numerous groups are calling for him to be fired as SFMTA careens toward a quarter-billion budget deficit. Will the mayor’s race save him? https://t.co/mV1DeJw877
The plan to rescue BART and Muni from a death spiral is at risk of unraveling https://t.co/wQhEoPHVVn via @sfchronicle
San Francisco’s history of collective decision-making helped prevent the city from being carved up by highways. @devonzuegel writes on how today, that same legacy prevents the city from building what it desperately needs: more housing https://t.co/P0twTs5Jrm
So many bad non-profits making it so hard for the good ones to get funding to do the real work. This article is an astounding takedown of TODCO in San Francisco and others. It's a must-read. https://t.co/uhSv5m61C0
On Friday, the Senate passed our legislation to chart a sustainable future for Bay Area public transportation. SB 1031 empowers the Bay Area to go to the ballot to generate operating & capital funding for transit & requires modernization & better integration of these systems.🧵
Building affordable housing seems like a win for cities struggling in the Housing Trap. But between its top-down nature and the public subsidies it requires, affordable housing can actually make things worse. https://t.co/ZLLWVw2Os9
"A nonprofit meant to provide affordable housing is spending taxpayer money to prevent affordable housing from being built." https://t.co/Ht9IJsR8Aj
TODCO is the embodiment of the corruption, NIMBYism, and incompetence that runs San Francisco. Look them up. They are an affordable housing non-profit that has blocked LOTS of housing. They have weaponized their non-profit status, the planning department, permitting, public… https://t.co/cwiZmeBmlR
This brilliant essay has a brutally accurate evaluation of TODCO, a San Francisco affordable housing nonprofit that receives millions in government funding and tirelessly works to block the construction of any new affordable housing in San Francisco. https://t.co/aahEoZoidh https://t.co/1z8E7EwyC8
BART is placing all its hopes for financial survival on the public approval of a sweeping 2026 tax measure to save the regional rail system, but the high-stakes proposal may not even reach Bay Area voters’ ballots. https://t.co/qSpJSxoN8h
🚋 NEW, TAX THREAT: Grassroots transit advocates want #SF voters to pass a tax on ride-hail firms this November to bolster @SFMTA_Muni's budget. But a bigger tax measure backed by @LondonBreed @AaronPeskin & others could kill it. @Jerold_Chinn explains 👇🏼 https://t.co/KmUjj4KmvL
"Voters evidently dislike the notion of making the mayor stronger and like the idea of reducing this city’s clutter of commissions — but many may not realize that by voting for the latter, they’d actually be doing the former." By @EskSF https://t.co/3LENiuZ8E8
"Houston, you have a problem: How large cities accommodate more housing" by Anthony W. Orlando and Christian L. Redfearn via Real Estate Economics https://t.co/EK094AZcgq