Wahab says we need to talk about housing in a very nuanced fashion, not just this "build, build, build" way, because that's not going to get us where we need to go. She says she "strongly believes in development" BUT that we need to focus on the end goal. ???
Wahab says right now the trend in the legislature is to remove all the progress that we've made on housing. She says we need to be more surgical, and that more and more of the bills "completely oppose local councils."
Wahab says we need to stop using "talking points" that "the data does not back." Unclear what she's talking about here. She says she didn't need November 2024 to tell her that Democrats aren't delivering for people.
Wahab says that we need to "course correct" on housing development. She notes we are 2.5M homes behind, that it takes ~4 years to get a unit built. Last year we did just 100k new homes. That's unacceptable. Author's note: the audience is *not pleased* with this answer
Wahab says this isn't about YIMBY or NIMBY, and the term "YIMBY" has been "co-opted" and is "not honest" when it comes in housing. She claims everyone wants to build housing (fact check: false). But the details matter, especially with regard to affordability.
Wahab says she has taken lots of hits for her stance on housing, but it's because no one is speaking the truth when it comes to the issue. Says the legislature has passed lots of bills, only killed a few that were deeply problematic.
Tricia says a boardmember wants to know Wahab's thoughts on Prop 19, which reformed Prop 13 by limiting the ability of people to inherit property tax benefits from parents or grandparents. Santa Monica NIMBYs are very upset about this, and claim it impacts affordability bigly!
Wahab says adjustments to Prop 19 probably need to be made and it's not working the way it was planned. Feels like pure pandering to her audience here.
Another question, this time about SB79! Tricia says that opposition is strong in Santa Monica, despite the fact that their city council voted to support the bill! Author's note: lol, lmao, etc.
Wahab says she wants to "tell the story of SB79." She claims the author was not willing to take any amendments in her committee (untrue) and so she was a no vote in committee. She then incorrectly claims the bill originally had no affordability requirement
Wahab she also had concerns with SB79 because it "removed all local control" which, again, is flatly untrue. She says the "height amount" in single-family zones was "deeply significant." She says local councils should have a say in what housing makes sense for their community.
I don't think we need to re-instate property tax breaks for non-resident 2nd and 3rd generation owners of property.
Can’t wait for all of those wilshire high rises start to go up. They are gonna lose their minds.
Affordable housing, but only for the children of rich NIMBYs.
Tricia is trying to lead Wahab into saying she supports repealing the death tax and explicitly name drops Howard Jarvis Association lmao
They should indeed get rid of the "death tax" (which affects few people) and do like Canada does: mark all assets on the estate to market and do a final income tax -- the heirs get a new step-up basis but after all gains have been taxed.
WHAT IN THE HELL IS SHE TALKING ABOUT
She voted for the unbundled parking before she was against it!
If people telling themselves "everyone wants to build housing" is part of the high road to actually building housing, I can get behind it.
So far she's been incoherent. What is her plan for more housing?
Are we sending our best and brightest to Sacramento? Evidence points to "no"
Can't believe she's doubling down on her position after getting rolled so many times on housing
Waffle 🧇 they want to derail the convo without ever getting specific about their intent