I hope so too but his first comments on closing the park don't make me feel hopeful 😞

This is a politically popular approach for lawmakers because you get to look pro-affordable housing while not materially affecting the donor class and laundering NIMBY objections in a do-gooder veneer.

But it's regressive and counterproductive to the goal of broadly solving affordability issues.

Tying affordable housing funding and mandates specifically to new market-rate development is saying, in effect, we are going to tax the renters in these new buildings in order to pay for housing subsidies for, in many cases, slightly poorer or simply luckier (won a housing lottery) renters.

Senate Bill 79 will legalize more housing near transit across California It’s time to end this practice of banning new homes in areas where we are making massive public transit investments.

California needs a lot more housing & we should prioritize housing near high-quality transit.

I’m authoring legislation to do just that. SB 79 authorizes denser housing by our highest quality transit. It’ll help transit systems succeed, reduce carbon emissions & create more sustainable communities.

@spoopyneetz.bsky.social

California needs to show we can deliver lower costs for people. That means simplifying the overgrown layers of government process making it hard to build things.

I’m authoring legislation as part of @buffywicks.bsky.social permitting reform package to do just that, including by simplifying CEQA. 🧵

This point of view is so misguided. Do better.

Land use does not prevent gentrification, it causes it. It causes housing prices to soar due to scarcity. It is weaponized to prevent social and supportive housing from being built. It is weaponized to keep poor people concentred and away from the rich.

I skipped last night’s State of the Union address in favor of President Eisenhower’s.

Cost of living is a problem throughout the country, but it’s off the charts in California. Why? Because of our obscenely high housing costs, driven by a massive housing shortage.

We make it way, way too hard to build new homes & that needs to change. 🧵

🧵 ALERT: Sorry for the late notice - we're about to join the SF Board of Supervisors meeting to hear about the mayor's attempt to oust a police commissioner, a proposal to lower fees on projects that convert downtown offices into housing, and more. Join us!

5 panes meme. First pane is an animated version of Donald Shoup with the text "Did you get everyone a parking spot?" the second frame is Thanos from Guardians of the Galaxy saying "Yes" The third frame is Shoup asking "What did it Cost?" Thanos reply's "Everything" The fifth frame is a picture of a very large parking lot, as far as the eye can see.

This post from @parkingreform.org gets my vote for best Shoup/parking meme... reply with your favorites.

Grey as heck 😎😎. Excited to pay my unfair sure of property insurance because of it.

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

Just a heads up the link is not working.

Ahh yall sounded so good! What a fun night

If you want to understand how California’s NIMBYism squandered one of the greatest economic opportunities in nearly a century, consider that over the last 15 years, Silicon Valley’s GDP nearly tripled, yet it approved less housing than Austin, Texas has in just four years.

Housing Supply Works: Rally Today Here is my testimony.

Housing Supply Works. Debunking the NIMBY handwaiving about new apartments being expensive.

ronpdavis.substack.com/p/housing-su...

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

This was a really smart take.

www.404media.co/email/343266...

If someone proposed building poorly-constructed buildings with code violations all over as a strategy for housing poorer folks, they'd be rightly criticized.

Yet many folks base anti-poverty strategies on preserving just this kind of housing for poorer folks.

This is awesome. From a custom knife forging shop in Edom, Texas.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

We can't do this for four years. It has only been nine days. For the sake of all of us, even the morons who put them in office, the current administration has to go.

I find myself doing this ooops but I also don't want to expose myself to more "news" that does not feel actionable and generally negative. Still figuring out the right balance

Nice came out great

Wow she wrote the most amazing masterpiece

I think the Dem base’s anger at elected Dems for their bizarre, paralyzed accommodationism is building much faster than anyone realizes. Pressure rising, explosion may be imminent

I've spent a decade now saying it: the social units progressives want to build and the market units developers want to build are both excluded by the same laws. If you want either - or as I do, both - you're going to need legal places to build them, no matter where the $ comes from.

They could do so many *good* things instead, to help people whose houses were destroyed.
*Let people build and live in ADUs before main houses, so fire victims can get housed sooner.
* In non-very-high-fire-severity areas, streamline SB 9 lot splits to help people pay for rebuilding their houses.