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gathering materials on messaging and advocacy strategy for YIMBY and housing issues.
== <br/> The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative ==
from Saul Alinsky, ''Rules for Radicals'', 1972:
<blockquote>''"The twelfth rule: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. You cannot risk being trapped by the enemy in his sudden agreement with your demand and saying "You're right—we don't know what to do about this issue. Now you tell us."''</blockquote>
In a sense this is the strategy most important to YIMBYwiki, as we are interested above all in facilitating constructive action and the search for alternative possibilities. <br/>
== Housing for All ==
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YIMBYwiki @YIMBYwiki<small> 4 Dec 2017 </small><br/> @cbracy a messaging angle we've been exploring is: if ladder seems to be pulled up, perhaps what's in everyone's interests is to add new lower rungs - new forms of starter home like ownable/movable ADUs, small-lot subdivision, SFH conv to cluster c/@afahey
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== Don't do good things if they seem to be bad ==
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("No hagas cosas buenas que parezcan malas") related to #3 by @Nullthread at SEA houser meetup <small>[https://twitter.com/YIMBYwiki/status/878437917626060800 23 Jun 2017]</small>.<br/>
== References ==
*Alinsky, Saul. ''[https://archive.org/details/RulesForRadicals Rules for Radicals]. ''1971. <br/> Full text: [https://archive.org/details/RulesForRadicals https://archive.org/details/RulesForRadicals].<br/>
*Baran, M., Kendall-Taylor, N., Morgan, P., Haydon, A., & Volmert, A. (2016). "[http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/assets/files/housing/housing_mtg_2016_formatted.pdf 'A House, a Tent, a Box':<br/> Mapping the gaps between expert and public understandings of healthy housing.]" A FrameWorks Research<br/> Report. Washington, DC: FrameWorks Institute.<br/> [http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/assets/files/housing/housing_mtg_2016_formatted.pdf http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/assets/files/housing/housing_mtg_2016_formatted.pdf].<br/> ''Summary: "This study compares public and expert understandings of housing, and offers strategic guidance for how communicators can help ordinary Americans better appreciate the connections between affordability, quality, and health."''<br/>
*Barnett, Erica. "[https://thecisforcrank.com/2017/12/13/fake-news-anecdata-and-things-that-feel-true/ Fake News, Anecdata, and Things that Feel True.]" ''C is for Crank ''blog, 13 Dec 2017. [https://thecisforcrank.com/2017/12/13/fake-news-anecdata-and-things-that-feel-true/ https://thecisforcrank.com/2017/12/13/fake-news-anecdata-and-things-that-feel-true/].<br/>
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