If anybody from San Diego is reading this, I’m dropping an all vinyl set at Bluefoot Bar in North Park tonight. Come party on Ash Wednesday.

Walkable urban street design is my passion

It feels like for some (deeply fucked up) people, illegal immigration is a perverse version of original sin. Once somebody crosses the border without authorization, the US is free to abuse, torture, or kill them with no remorse.

Random thought…it’s kinda weird how we need politicians to believe with all their heart in the policies they enact. Would be cool to see someone say “this isn’t really my thing, but it’s what the people want, so here you go.”

Now that we know Bad Bunny’s performance was conceived as a powerful pan-American and pan-Latin political statement, it’s extra funny that Drake’s camp pushed the rumors that he turned down a guest appearance.

Beautiful representation of culture.

If anyone can get Lost Angeles to get its act together, it's Raman. Excited to see if she can pull it off.

100% affordable project on Surplus Land at a light rail station’s parking lot. Can’t use AB2011 because the freeway is <500 feet. SB35/423 not viable because of the uncertainty around tribal consultation. So many well-intentioned laws that are kneecapped by making the perfect the enemy of the good.

I think part of the reason the State is afraid to touch this is that some big cities have been applying the wrong rent limits for years. Health & Safety Code 50053 is hard enough to parse that the general public can’t figure out what’s going on, and it will be too messy to unwind.

Out of the affordable deals I’m working on, all the ones driven by for-profits are getting built at below $450k/unit, and all the non-profit built ones are in the ballpark of $750k/unit.

On my morning dog walk there are usually 3-4 different groups of construction workers gathering and prepping for the day. Feels good to live somewhere that wants to grow.

I understand folks are scared but I want you to think about the mechanics of this. There are more polling places (>100k) than ICE and CBP agents combined, so they can only pick a few districts to try to intimidate. Now what happens when cell phone footage of that goes online in the early morning?

I know I’m tilting at windmills here, but it’s crazymaking that HCD does not publish a rent schedule for Density Bonus projects. I have to painstakingly correct owners and even other jurisdictions who wrongly assume the TCAC limits. @alexfischca.bsky.social can you do something?

I know Snoop made the terrible decision to perform at Trump's inauguration, but this is incredible.

Hampton Roads light rail (??!?) I owe you an apology, I was not familiar with your game.

Feels like in November 2024 America was a teenager who decided to try a cigarette, and the next three years we‘re going to be forced to smoke the whole pack.

I like that you can read this as a totally positive thing. Ofc the west’s system is much better than the gulf states

I wonder if there are any studies looking at depression/suicide rates for union vs non-union construction workers. Probably a lot of colinear variables, but might help inform a cost/benefit analysis of things like Prevailing Wage.

Remember Harlo Pippenger? He’s still on the Everything App, posting at Elon Musk level frequency. Very committed leftist.

The Housing Element Annual Progress Report is how California tracks housing production and holds cities accountable for fulfilling their commitments. This year Table B of their spreadsheet contains a pretty bad formula error, whereby some units are being double counted. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Greenfield development in Chula Vista.

The Measure ULA reform measure failed. LA’s governance is so bad that I’m now on the same side of an issue as the motherfucking Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.

you’re all making jokes but the reason Greg Bovino was removed from duty is a safety issue we all need to take seriously

The City of Encinitas: —listed a site on its HE Sites Inventory as available for development. —Approved a project on the site, now under construction. —THEN decided to oppose the project and sue the developer. —When the City Attorney refused to play along, fired them and hired outside counsel.

Just this month there was a big LA Times article about how housing in San Diego is booming while LA’s production has collapsed. Todd Gloria has pursued a lot of urbanist goals (ending free parking, preserving SD’s ADU program, reducing rents and homelessness)…and he’s at 33% approval. Really sucks.

God knows I want to reduce impact fees, but this seems like a sloppy argument/analytical framework…what is the point of comparing the revenue from affordable housing impact fees to the cost of all impact fees on affordable projects? Those are two very different things.

Guys I think the COO of the San Diego Automotive Museum may not be on the level here.

When it happens I will be treating it like the A's just won a regular season home game and posting Celebration by Kool & the Gang on main.

America’s spoiled and decadent elites behave like children because they do not understand the basis of our wealth and power. They reject their responsibility to maintain stability in favor of pursuing their short term desires because they do not understand that bad things actually can happen to us.

This quote is infuriating.

Shared by DJ Styles on other sites…the interview with the girl at the end is heartbreaking. A friend’s dad said it used to be called Klan Leandro back in the day. m.youtube.com/watch?v=fBAv...

Vibe check: the hottest song on Rap Caviar comes out the gate crapping on Tesla.

Not the biggest thing going on in the world right now, but it’s really grinding my gears that Joe Lacob’s fat ego can’t handle the fact that the Steph Curry era began before he bought the team, so he fixates on the two timelines and fumbles Steph’s remaining years.

There are places where Trump, as president, has broad freedom of action. And there are places where Trump, as president, has been able to act unilaterally because the main point of opposition, Congress (and SCOTUS), support his program. (1/?)

Damn, RIP John Forté. After the fame he released some dope underground music. Every time I played this I had people asking me what it was. m.youtube.com/watch?v=hVr9...

Oh shit, I didn't know Raphael Saadiq was behind the best party song of the last 10 years. #townbiz

I don't post personal stuff much #onhere but it's hard to even think about producing mixtapes or music without feeling an immense sense of loss about how things used to be, before the world lost its mind.

This is an incredible example of the art of sampling. I had that Impressions record but never would have occurred to me to flip it like that, and to mix in 2 other samples so perfectly? This is equal to Straighten It Out and other great Pete Rock flips. www.whosampled.com/De-La-Soul/T...

Interesting section on the politics of growth in the 90s from a New Yorker article about Peter Navarro.

Very dumbed down lit review: - "institutional" landlords are more likely to charge market rate rent, and to file evictions, but also less likely to discriminate based on race, sex, or bad credit - "mom and pop" may undercharge vs. market, less likely to evict, but also more likely to discriminate

I definitely think less of people still posting regularly on a site that promotes CSAM.

I wonder if the assumption about residential being a fiscal drain on city budgets is partly driven by fire depts being structured inefficiently, with an emphasis on scattered neighborhood fire stations rather than fewer, more centralized stations.

Democracy rarely emerges from external deposition of leaders or sudden power vacuums. It emerges from negotiated exits with guarantees and credible domestic opposition to corrupt or repressive regimes. This intervention actively undermines both.

Sometimes a song hits and it’s so good it’s almost painful, and you’re slightly embarrassed that you don’t already know it.

New Year’s Day is lowkey the best holiday. No burden of heavy obligations, a day of quiet reflection and future-oriented optimism. Either that or recovery from a hangover.

Let’s agree to leave this bullshit mentality in 2025.

Far be it from me to defend the LAPD’s abuses, but this long-ass conspiratorial thread about Nipsey’s store neglects to mention that he was killed in front of it by a fellow Rollin’ 60’s member. So maybe there was a legit reason for the heavy surveillance?

The City of Oceanside charges a $100/unit setup fee for inclusionary projects, but applies the fee to all units, including the unregulated ones. So for a 200-unit project with 30 affordable units, the fee would be $20k instead of $3k. This is illegal, right? Cc: @housingdefense.bsky.social

From the CRE newsletter (but you already knew this if you’re on this site).

Heard a story over the holidays that sounds like perfect urbanist ragebait: that back in the day, the firefighters union and insurance companies were in cahoots, so if the firefighters didn’t get their demands met, insurers would call local businesses to tell them their premiums were going up due to