Submission statement: Janeese Lewis George, the DSA candidate for DC mayoral race is embracing YIMBY/pro-housing politics to address housing supply. This is particularly relevant as generally DSA candidates have primarily favored policies like rent control as the and demand subsidization as their tools for solving housing. DSA candidates have been watching what happened in Austin and Minneapolis with housing costs and are no longer denying the results. It seems to be a wider DSA messaging shift as I have seen even ward level DSA candidates adopt this message too,
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Submission statement: Janeese Lewis George, the DSA candidate for DC mayoral race is embracing YIMBY/pro-housing politics to address housing supply. This is particularly relevant as generally DSA candidates have primarily favored policies like rent control as the and demand subsidization as their tools for solving housing. DSA candidates have been watching what happened in Austin and Minneapolis with housing costs and are no longer denying the results. It seems to be a wider DSA messaging shift as I have seen even ward level DSA candidates adopt this message too,
The communists are outflanking us from the right.
Left-wing politicians embracing YIMBYism is definitely a good thing
One of my most hated laws is the stupid 100 year law that puts a height restriction on buildings in dc. A federal tells a city what it can build
Just went on her campaign website and, yeah, this is not YIMBY. You cannot increase supply while simultaneously strengthening rent controls. “Truly affordable” is also straight-up economic illiteracy.
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