There’s a world a few months away where gas tax waivers and strategies to boost domestic oil production are silly and immaterial, and the only question is how quickly we can transition to renewables.

My daughter told me that her imaginary friend has an electric bike AND an electric helmet.

It‘s a little too perfect that right-wing growth machine politics and pro-diversity left-NIMBYism both contain the seeds of their own destruction.

Best pen game in rap, for the record.

Take this with a grain of salt, but unfortunately I’ve heard negative things about Nithya Raman from two people who know her…that she is a toxic boss and not very personable. Apparently her lack of charisma came out in the debate last night?

This thread is the most uplifting thing I’ve seen today. My takeaway is that hard work is never wasted.

Needs more articulation.

11 years ago, I used to be cool.

At the architecture panel I attended yesterday, I asked about code reform. One architect said that different jurisdictions apply the code very differently, and he was grateful to Santa Clara for allowing him to just throw in some extra sprinklers as alternate compliance for one issue. (cont’d)

“What little gets built goes to the wealthy first” doesn’t strike me as a particularly workable synthesis of abundance and populism, at least on housing, where brand new units are usually the most expensive.

Sign of the apocalypse: at a panel all the architects were badly dressed.

There should be an app where male ladybugs and female daddy longlegs can meet and share their experiences.

Not knocking the old school at all, but listening to this live mix from 1985 and then remembering that Eric B. is President came out a year later...these people have no idea the earthquake that's about to hit their world. No wonder every 90s rapper's favorite rapper is Rakim. (cont'd)

8. So while I don't think Callais is *apocalyptic* for Democrats, it's still a hideous perversion of the Constitution that will undermine democracy and racial equality for years. The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead. The 15th Amendment has been repurposed to greenlight racism. It's a dark day.

New FDT anthem just dropped. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ePah...

Funny to make a big case for the importance of short term rental restrictions, and in the same thread admit that the regulations are not actually enforced currently.

Snippet from a New Yorker interview with Steve Kerr. I always suspected he kept his mouth shut on China because of Klay’s Anta deal (among other thing)…glad to see it confirmed.

Huh.

A coworker calculated the cost of Circuit at about $40/mile. Cities are easy marks for this shit. www.ridecircuit.com

The corrollary to this is that developers are starting to come out of the woodwork pitching their acquisition/conversion deals. The AMI rents haven’t dropped so the delta between affordable and market rate is smaller, and they think the gap can be finessed with a little welfare tax exemption.

Thought experiment: if ULA is net negative because it depresses property sales and reassessments under Prop 13, would a transfer subsidy be net positive?

@muhammadspeaks.bsky.social what do you make of the argument that the real thing holding condos back in CA is not defect litigation but buyer deposits, and that they need to be totally uncapped?

Regarding Trump’s tanking approval ratings: When Bush slid to the mid-30s toward the end, it was partly bc there was a contingent of conservatives who were mad that he didn’t go all in on anti-immigrant sentiment. This time around, conservatives got everything they wanted, and America hates it.

When someone on Bluesky in the year 2026 says “no, you don’t understand, I’m fine with development, just not in MY backyard,” resist the urge to dunk on them. They are an endangered species and their presence is needed for a healthy ecosystem.

Pocket park, apartment building, cafe with outdoor seating, cranes in the background…good stuff happening.

Late night earnest post: Watched the Adam Friedland interview with Ilhan Omar and feel a new respect for her. Maybe she’s not an electoral overperformer or elite policy wonk, but she’s a courageous person who authentically represents her constituents. America, man. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPzo...

Every day we stray further from God’s light.

Parcel assembly is hard.

Engineering and Public Works departments saying no to a cantilevered building that extends out over the sidewalk because it would be cool as hell and they hate cool things. :(

Yo dog, I heard you like articulated facades so I articulated a facade on your facade.

An affordable project that I helped bring about got fully funded and is starting construction in September. I keep thinking about it and wanting to cry tears of happiness.

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Is this just stupid homophobia, because that’s what it seems like.

Good photo series. apnews.com/photo-galler...

I’ve tended to shy away from homeless policy, and the intersection of homelessness and addiction, because apart from PSH and Just Building More Housing, solutions seem so murky. Thought provoking article. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o...

I don’t have anything original to say about it, but it’s genuinely terrifying that a madman is threatening to commit atrocities.

What I’m mad about now: daylighting regulations that only let owners build up to the orange line instead of the lot line, because drivers are coddled little babies.

It’s insane when you think about it that government intervention into housing and labor markets often focuses on making a tiny number of people winners, usually at the expense of broader affordability/labor goals.

Action Bronson and Mamdani seem like kindred spirits somehow…cultural omnivores who can lift up places like a Yemeni spot in Sheepshead Bay. I love it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=JSYj...

I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here. Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.

Organized a playdate with the kids of an old friend today, and at the end found out that his wife has become a super religious antivaxxer. This sucks man.

Been dealing with an ironic situation where an affordable housing tenant, a construction worker, occasionally works on federal projects. His pay jumps from $25/hr to $66/hr, and it’s threatening to make him over-income for his unit.

Watched the Adam Friedland 2 Chainz interview and then the Jay-Z GQ interview. Different interviewers, etc., but Jay is so clearly a more cogent speaker, and a more thoughtful and insightful person.

I see people express real fear about AI replacing most jobs very soon, and then I think about a coworker who let a 2nd round submittal on a highly time-sensitive affordable housing planning entitlement sit in her inbox for 11 days before routing. There’s a cognitive dissonance here.

Guess what my city charges for plan check (i.e., building permit review and approval) for a 100-unit building.

Ok not to get all conspiratorial but I can't seem the find the full original clip of this anywhere on the internet. Maybe it was scrubbed due to copyright issues? www.threads.com/@guessur/pos...

I’m an anomaly in the dj world in that I actually pay for most of my music on iTunes. (Don’t want to hear your shitty remix, sorry.) Have been listening on my phone on shuffle for the last few weeks, and pleasantly surprised that it’s like 80% good music, even with all the weddings and club gigs.

Was at the Housing CA conference and the former insurance commissioner claimed that home hardening meaningfully reduces fire risk but insurers don’t want to give discounts based on them because they are a greedy oligopoly. I am skeptical.