The leftist housing orgs also just completely swamp the YIMBY movement in total donations. It’s gotta be at least 10:1. PolicyLink is bringing in literally 10x what California YIMBY brings in. The YIMBY movement is *very* grassroots and poorly funded compared to its detractors from the left.

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One difference between east and west coast is that public housing is a focus of tenant organizing in a way that it isn't out here (since public housing is a function of your population in the 1950s).

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This aside though, generally the leftist housing orgs get way more money from mainline foundations that are familiar to anybody who grew up listening to NPR – Robert Wood Johnson, Rockefeller, Kresge, Ford. Plus the California healthcare conversion foundations. And the YIMBY money is CG and AV.

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[stares in Austin]

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I HATE these thermoplastic markers. They’re like a quarter-inch thick. I spend like 20% of my mental energy biking in NYC trying to avoiding riding over them. Maybe they were necessary when bike lanes were new in NYC, but now they need to find gentler and subtler ways of demarcating bike lanes.

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