i’m once again asking you to understand that private commodified housing is not the way to meet a basic human need • FREE PALESTINE • ABOLISH ICE
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Ryan Bell 🇵🇸 retweeted
Jun 13
Australia’s housing obsession is one of its greatest weaknesses.
Rising house prices are not a sign of prosperity.
What they actually tell you is that more money is being borrowed from the banking sector to buy homes.
The cause of rising house prices is rising household debt, and that is unproductive.
House prices are now five times more expensive than consumer goods compared to 1970. We should never have allowed that to happen.
Housing should not be an asset.
It is not something you should profit out of. It is something you should live in.
The people who really benefit from rising house prices are real estate agents and property developers, not the families who live in them.
We are paupers living inside castles. Paying a fortune on the mortgage, a fortune on private schools, and out of the remainder, just trying to live.
For the more information, check out the comment section,
#SteveKeen #AustraliaProperty #HousingCrisis #MortgageDebt #Economics #HousingAffordability
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RT @mcmansionhell: half of anti-rent control rhetoric boils down to “I deserve your apartment” and once you see it that way you can’t unsee…
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Ryan Bell 🇵🇸 retweeted
Report on some of the super-wealthy trying to sell you on "abundance" can be found here: prospect.org/2026/06/12/new-…
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Ryan Bell 🇵🇸 retweeted
Abundance is the opiate of the elites
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Ryan Bell 🇵🇸 retweeted
Eviction defense organizations may have to lay off staff because Hydee Feldstein Soto refuses to sign a contract. Idiotic, vindictive, and cruel.
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Ryan Bell 🇵🇸 retweeted
Jun 2
Not to beat up on this girl more than the comments already have, but this is a great example of how a hating billionaires is not the same as class consciousness.
NYT: Madeleine Schnack, 22, a student at the University of California, San Diego, who said she voted for Xavier Becerra in the primary for governor despite some concerns about his consideration of new oil drilling in California.
“I think they both have pros and cons, but I thought the pros outweighed the cons for Becerra. In the end I didn’t want to vote for a billionaire.”
#CaliforniaGovernor
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May 30
The audio mix is WAY off on the @MLB broadcast, @AppleTV. When there is any stadium noise at all, we can’t hear the commentary. @DTrainMLB is impossible to hear.
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The degree to which a certain class of people act like ULA is “obviously a problem to fix” is giving away the whole game.
I don't want to hear fuck all about how you support social housing when you want to gut one of the only sources of social housing funding in the state and have zero ideas or interest in replacing it! I don't believe you!
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Obviously @YsabelJuradoLA is correct.
May 29
LA Council Committee reviewing the city's mansion tax/Measure ULA decides NOT to recommend a November ballot measure to make changes. Chair @YsabelJuradoLA says it's too early to evaluate the tax's long-term effects.
ALT The recommendations advanced today focus on strengthening implementation and long-term impact, including new pathways to move unhoused Angelenos into permanent housing, stronger oversight and reporting requirements, improved accountability measures, and tools to accelerate affordable housing production and preservation: Creating a time-limited dedicated pathway using ULA funds to move unhoused Angelenos into permanent housing; Expanding reporting requirements of the ULA Citizens Oversight Committee to ensure the City Council receives regular recommendations and clearer oversight on program performance, implementation, and fund delivery; Exploring the feasibility of issuing revenue bonds backed by future ULA revenue to further the purpose and mission of Measure ULA by accelerating affordable housing production and preservation; Establishing a temporary, targeted transfer-tax exemption for qualified affordable housing developments to spur production and ensure more affordable housing ge
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Ryan Bell 🇵🇸 retweeted
May 23
If this was a blind ballot and you only saw a campaign's backers, which side would you pick?
But this isn't a hypothetical.
On the left are Xavier Becerra's backers.
Tom Steyer's endorsements on the right.
May 23
Xavier Becerra, candidate for California Governor, has just received $500,000 from McDonald's to his Super PAC
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Ryan Bell 🇵🇸 retweeted
Mar 31
NEW: I reviewed the polls that @lxeagle17 relied on in his argument that Platner is not a working class candidate.
I think it's extremely hard to argue that his article is a defensible reading of the data.
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Ryan Bell 🇵🇸 retweeted
A 91-year-old woman’s rent went from $297 → $995 overnight—with just 4 days to pay or face penalties.
Like many mobile home residents, she owns her home but rents the land beneath it—leaving her trapped and vulnerable to hikes she can’t escape.
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Ryan Bell 🇵🇸 retweeted
Apr 27
Earlier this month, Senator John Fetterman disclosed a purchase of Micron Technology stock $MU.
Micron was awarded $6.1 billion through the CHIPS Act, the largest grant made under the program.
Fetterman serves on the Senate Commerce Committee, which has oversight authority related to CHIPS Act funding.
The stock has increased more than 60% since his reported purchase.
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Absolutely right.
If private landlords refuse to make empty apartments available for rent, the city should expropriate them w fair market compensation and convert them to social housing.
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Ryan Bell 🇵🇸 retweeted
Democrats have a THREE-QUARTERS supermajority in the CA legislature and they just killed the single-payer universal health care bill, aka CalCare.
Democratic leadership, both statewide and national, are corporate controlled and have ZERO vision. We need new, bold leadership!
We are outraged. The CA Assembly just killed #CalCare — the bill that would guarantee health care for every Californian.
Nurses condemn this failure by our elected leaders. We know health is a human right! nationalnursesunited.org/pre…
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Ryan Bell 🇵🇸 retweeted
Apr 21
I can't tell you what an honor it is to have the endorsement of the one and only Betty Yee.
She is brilliant, she is consistent, and together we will make California the progressive leader we know it can be.
@BettyYeeforCA
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Ryan Bell 🇵🇸 retweeted
Apr 21
Hey all, it’s publishing day for my book “How to Sell a Genocide,” which is a data-driven account of mainstream media’s role in creating the conditions of mass death in Gaza. 100% of royalties go to @MECAForPeace. Thank you!
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Ryan Bell 🇵🇸 retweeted
Becerra’s entire shtick of “I’m Latino so all the Latinos should vote for me” is indicative of his lazy approach to campaigning and executive governance. This sort of stale and cynical identity politics is exactly the reason the Democratic Party is in the trouble it’s in.
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Ryan Bell 🇵🇸 retweeted
14 Sep 2020
Gosh, it sure would be nice if @XavierBecerra did something with the #exxonknew file sitting on his desk for the last FOUR YEARS WHILE HIS STATE BURNS DOWN THANKS TO EXXON
14 Sep 2020
BREAKING: Connecticut sues Exxon Mobil over "unfair and deceptive acts and practices" to "undermine public acceptance of the scientific facts" about the risks of climate change to the planet. portal.ct.gov/-/media/AG/Sta…
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