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David Vatz @davidvatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Governor @governor.ca.gov needs to sign SB79 to help save our democracy! Blue states refusal to build housing is killing our country and ceding our future. Gov Newsom can help stop this by signing SB79.

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David Vatz @davidvatz.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Renters are much poorer than homeowners. By a pretty wide margin. If you're going to implement yet another program intended to help homeowners, it ought to be very tightly targeted at people who have the greatest need. Otherwise your just soaking poor renters to benefit wealthier homeowners.

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David Vatz @davidvatz.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Our mayor wants to pass citywide IZ, which will massively impact employment for our tradespeople. We're already doing worse on pandemic recovery than any similar metro, and Gainey wants it to get worse. We're losing to Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland.

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David Vatz @davidvatz.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Austin, TX has somehow managed to see 7% year over year rent drops. And they did all of this without IZ mandates, and somehow convinced RealPage to not raise their rents! Anyone know what their secret is?

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David Vatz @davidvatz.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

It's wild to me that this administration hates people from outside of the city so much that they now accuse them of causing the housing crisis here. I would love to have a mayor who actively encourages folks to move to our great city.

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David Vatz @davidvatz.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Originally a 30-townhome development, now planned as a 19-townhome development in Polish Hill (downsized to avoid IZ). Now the neighborhood is trying to kill it all together with a bad-faith historic designation for this building. Link in 🧵

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David Vatz @davidvatz.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Build more, prices go down - Atlanta edition

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David Vatz @davidvatz.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

One of the most expensive markets in the country (San Jose) has reduced it's IZ from 15% to 5%. And yet, Mayor Gainey is still proposing 10% in Pittsburgh. IZ has really been so thoroughly discredited at this point, it's becoming laughable. (H/T @jake-wil.de)

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David Vatz @davidvatz.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

YIMBYs - let's build more housing to fix the housing shortage. Anti-YIMBY leftist - but what if we just murdered developers instead?

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David Vatz @davidvatz.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Sad about your favorite local business closing? Help solve the problem by fighting for more housing and more neighbors in your area! Say no to NIMBYs and yes to more housing. www.reddit.com/r/pittsburgh...

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David Vatz @davidvatz.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

City Planning: We held a public engagement meeting at 7pm last Tuesday night and 80% of the people who came to the meeting told us they didn't want these new apartments in their neighborhood! Therefore, we have blocked the project.

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David Vatz @davidvatz.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Gameday with Pitt Volleyball in Winston-Salem #H2P

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David Vatz @davidvatz.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I was proud to represent @prohousingpgh.org today at the groundbreaking for 27 new homes in Mt. Washington. Here's the statement I gave about why Pittsburgh must build more housing. bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/n...

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David Vatz @davidvatz.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I strongly urge City Council to not support the passage of Ordinance 701, which would require council approval for any group homes of 8 or more disabled individuals. Statement below in conjunction with @prohousingpgh.org

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