oh yeah, that's garbage. Almost everyone in our project had some part time job and/or was an applied artist.

I only ended up getting involved in this type of work because I think it is easy to fuck up- namely ending up with higher income white artists in a lower income neighborhood. And I think we did a good job, but it wasn't easy.

ultimately it comes down to how you define "artist". We did extensive outreach to determine how to define that in Santa Fe and ended up with a very broad definition which included culinary artists, healing artists, people with traditional practices. It's about the need for a unique type of space.

Typically most smaller communities have ZERO affordable housing that's designed for the specific needs of artists. Artists also can be quite disruptive in more traditional affordable housing complexes- think loud/messy/noisy.

here's some observation independent of whatever BS NY is proposing. Affordable housing isn't hermetically sealed, when people move into an affordable unit, they free up other affordable or NOAH. Well designed affordable housing also provides design and amenities specific for artists.

These can be bad- but they’re not universally bad. I say that having developed one.

The standards have become so low

I’ve done both. They can work but it’s not easy to do without unintended consequences

We bought tickets yesterday ABQ-PWM with fingers crossed

Good sign your advocacy is working!

Garcia, pro housing huh? 🫥

the Last few days with the Maine senate race- oooh boy

yeah also not including Platner’s quote about Hawley is not exactly good faith, so there you go!

Seems like that next paragraph is pretty relevant

oh yeah? Source?