Meronek and Szeto controversy

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Original Truthout article

On May 10, 2017, Truth-Out published an article "YIMBYs: The Alt-Right Darlings of the Real Estate Industry" by Toshio Meronek and Andrew Szeto, both of San Francisco. [title subsequently changed to remove "Alt-Right"].  

Responses to Truthout article

• YIMBYwiki article excerpting key points/claims of the article, with annotations and responses: YIMBYs: The Alt-Right Darlings (annotated).
   
• Laura Foote Clark. "Q&A with 'reporter' Toshio Meronek." Medium, May 15, 2017.
   
• Seung Y. Lee (SF Examiner columnist): "With development activists compared to the ‘alt-right,’ the housing crisis debate jumped the shark." San Francisco Examiner, May 15, 2017.
   
• Sonja Trauss. "One of the authors of the Truthout clusterfuck wrote to me.." Medium, May 16, 2017. 
    
• Randy Shaw. "Activists' False Anti-Housing Narratives." BeyondChron, May 16, 2017.
   
• Victoria Fierce. "The Progressive Disinformation Machine." Medium (draft), May 17, 2017.
   

Followup SF Examiner op-ed 

• Szeto, Andrew, and Toshio Meronek. "The problem with YIMBY." San Francisco Examiner, op-ed, May 21, 2017.
   
• "The Problem with YIMBY (annotated)": YIMBYwiki's article with excerpts of Szeto & Meronek's article, plus annotations and responses. 

 

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References

• Clark, Laura Foote. "Q&A with 'reporter' Toshio Meronek." Medium, May 15, 2017. https://medium.com/@laurafooteclark/q-a-with-reporter-toshio-meronek-7456527aef90.
   
• Fierce, Victoria. "The Progressive Disinformation Machine." Medium (draft), May 17, 2017. https://medium.com/@tdfischer_/7281184cac3f.
   
• Lee, Seung Y. "With development activists compared to the ‘alt-right,’ the housing crisis debate jumped the shark." San Francisco Examiner, May 15, 2017. http://www.sfexaminer.com/development-activists-compared-alt-right-housing-crisis-debate-jumped-shark/. 
   
• Meronek, Toshio, and Andrew Szeto. "YIMBYs: The Alt-Right Darlings of the Real Estate Industry." Truthout Report, May 10, 2017. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40509-yimbys-the-alt-right-darlings-of-the-real-estate-industry.  [note: article title later changed to remove "Alt-Right".
   
• Shaw, Randy. "Activists' False Anti-Housing Narratives." BeyondChron, May 16, 2017. http://www.beyondchron.org/anti-housing-activists-fake-narratives/.
   
• Szeto, Andrew, and Toshio Meronek."The problem with YIMBY." San Francisco Examiner, op-ed, May 21, 2017. http://www.sfexaminer.com/the-problem-with-yimby/. 
   
• Sonja Trauss. "One of the authors of the Truthout clusterfuck wrote to me.." Medium, May 16, 2017. https://medium.com/@LocalPolitics/toshio-one-of-the-authors-of-the-truth-out-clusterfuck-wrote-to-me-at-4-10-pm-april-25th-the-day-dd63a11e86ad.