Right now, working families are paying the cost of our refusal to build homes where people want to live, which creates cutthroat competition that drives up prices. If we think real estate developers are making too much money, we should raise income taxes.

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

I think this is the year that we should finally retire the word "gentrification." You can't measure it and you can't define it, so how do we know when it started and if it stopped?

Pennsylvania would be a rock solid blue state of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh would allow like 25% more housing.

I'm being a little facetious here but I do think one of the key things that makes YIMBY both politically effective and genuinely fun is that many of the local chapters throw a lot of casual social functions.

It's also just illiterate when it comes to the issues at hand. A central part of the YIMBY argument is that building more homes undermines the power of incumbent landlords and REITs.

people like Sirota, who have an almost pathological opposition to building more housing, fascinate me

Everyone in Los Angeles right now, PROTEST THIS NOW!!! LOS ANGELES REFUSING TO BUILD HOUSING AFFECTS THE ENTIRE STATE! CALL YOUR CITY COUNCILMEMBERS NOW!!! AND FUCK EVEN PROTEST OUTSIDE CITY HALL FOR THIS!!!

Housing production in Los Angeles is currently at the lowest level in a DECADE. Now, the LA City Council may be voting on an ordinance that could cut the amount of affordable housing built IN HALF We need your help to stop this!

This rules so hard. It's been a longstanding conviction of mine that the best way to convince people to replace car trips with ebike trips is by letting them try out an ebike for free. Love the Oakland Public Library. oaklandside.org/2025/09/25/o...

Not even 20 minutes later and I guess we’re doing 50% tariffs on IKEA for some reason. He’s a man with a plan to make life more expensive and he can’t be stopped.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

Sorry but parking "cops" are good, unarmed civil servants rightly ensuring access to public spaces remain accessible. I own a car and almost never get parking tickets because I park correctly and in consideration of other people who need curbspace.

every single day that we are ruled by this senile freak has a new humiliation on an international scale

Democrats need to completely jettison NIMBYs like this. The fact that these anti-progress loons have infiltrated our party is an embarrassment

This is what SB 79 initially did but housing nonprofits could not understand it and killed it. However its inportant because without grocery stores and commercial activities on transit property everyone is going to own cars.

🚨 Alright, YIMBYs! If you live in California, and you want to see more homes near public transit, here's what you need to do: SB 79 is on the desk of @governor.ca.gov. We need you to call the Governor TODAY and ask him to sign! Need help? We've got you covered 👇 actionnetwork.org/call_campaig...

We must not let them get away with this. We should condemn violence of any kind. But self-censoring out of fear that the regime will retaliate — whether directly or through its online mob — is anticipatory obedience & directly fuels fascism.

Art of the Day - Millbrae This station currently has BART, Caltrain, and bus, it will have High Speed Rail in the future as well.

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I hope California YIMBY is considered a “US YIMBY” org Their marquee SB 79 would have allowed transit agencies to build commercial uses at stations irrespective of local zoning This section was cut out by housers who want to preserve sites for LIHTC calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202...

Reducing car dependency is a key tool in defending democracy in a whole lotta ways.

We still need your help to get SB 79 over the finish line. Write or call the Governor's office to ask for his signature. It only takes a couple minutes with our easy to use online tool.

One in five Californians spend more than half their income on housing. Not having enough homes to buy or rent creates cutthroat competition and drives up prices. The solution is to allow a mix of homes of all sizes and prices, including apartments near transit, which would be allowed under SB 79.

NO NOT MORE TARIFFS I SWEAR TO GOD I WAS ENJOYING THE BREAK SO MUCH

Enough to turn me off pumpkin pie

My dude @zacharyst.bsky.social in the @latimes.com today with results from a new survey: Angelenos want new housing--apartments included--all over the city and even in their own back yard.

Can’t wait to break Sinclair up. Corporate media consolidation doesn’t jibe with democracy. And although Sinclair isn’t a fan of democracy, most people are.

Jeebus flippin cripes is there anything in the world this administration doesn't want to make crappier? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Just when I think I’ve heard all the arguments against new housing, a new argument appears: The latest: Building homes hurts small businesses! The opposite is true: Building homes *helps* small businesses by bringing more customers & giving their workers a shot at living near where they work.

i will concede that if you want to influence other people addicted to X, X is worth using. but if you want to influence the actual public, text-based social media is a fool's errand.

It also ignores that leaving was a form of influence! Millions sent a clear message about the minimum standards of fairness and respect we believe are foundational for civic conversation. Their obsession with our departure makes clear it was effectively communicated; they just don't like it

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it’s actually insane how many hidden subsidies we have for single family sprawl that are borne by people living in dense cities

HUGE NEWS: Governor Newsom just signed into law our bill to ban ICE & other law enforcement from wearing ski masks & other extreme masks. The No Secret Police Act (SB 627) will help stop the masked secret police who are kidnapping people in our communities. Show your damn faces.

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

I will fight any recall attempt of Melgar. This would be a huge distraction from the public transit funding fight, but we can not tolerate this bullying of elected officials. We need recall reform. Higher signature counts, wider election consolidation window. This is no way to run an electoral body

That’s what he wants, this whole year has been a revenge against blue states that didn’t vote for him, and revenge on the country voting him out in 2020. He doesn’t care about the damage caused by his actions, he just wants everyone to suffer..

Wrote about how California needs to get serious about the urban disorder our failure to build housing has created.

Is public disorder often over exaggerated by the right? Yes it is! Should we still do something about it to reduce it, like building supportive housing? YES WE SHOULD! Even though I’m a socialist, I will happily to agree with Stan’s public safety views, we must make our cities More livable.

"Though [Democratic] cities are far better than [Republican cities] in almost every regard, the homelessness crisis that the housing crisis begets negates all of it in most people’s eyes."

Wildly disappointed that I didn’t see a single one of the protestors who chartered a party bus to come be mad at me.

Max Dubler believes this monstrosity belongs in your backyard:

I called, it was easy and took less than a few minutes of my time, don’t be shy or nervous! It’s easy and helps a lot NOW LETS GET MORE HOUSING NEAR TRANSIT!! TELL NEWSOM TO SIGN SB 79!!🚞🏗️🏙️

Californians! We're not out of the woods yet! If you were excited about the legislature's historic passage of SB 79 last week, please take 30 seconds to call and email the governor requesting his signature. (And get five friends to do the same!) actionnetwork.org/letters/sign...

I grew up in San Diego, but my family left California due to the cost of housing. Everyday more and more people leave because of the state's inability to build housing at scale. Failure to sign SB79 into law would be a disservice to them, and to the friends and family they leave behind.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

There should be one single criterion for the California Department of Housing and Community Development’s “pro housing city” designation: by-right zoned capacity for 5x your current population without any conditions of approval.