Reading the comments on any story about housing is a great way to understand how we got a housing shortage.

The only things that would make this news better are (1) getting even more units onto this site and (2) build the 30th St BART station we’ve longed for

At Land Use (again) and it's literally all the same people it always is (myself included)...like who are we fooling that the same 75 people showing up every time is "the will of the people"? What a sham public process is sometimes, sadly

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

Also, the most drastic change made to the Richmond was downzoning it in 1978. Had we not done that we would not be on the crippling housing shortage we are in today. We got exactly what we planned for. This isn’t drastic, it’s a return to what once was

Epic legislation-author, completely unafraid of MAGA, & the elected official you’re most likely to run into on transit or at a block party in SF. Excited to see what @scottwiener.bsky.social can do in DC!

We cannot welcome foreigners and refugees into our communities when we refuse to let anyone build new homes.

It really is stark how much most people who oppose Family Zoning (and really many changes) have this idea that San Francisco is doomed if we do anything, and yet every year it’s just gotten harder and harder to live here

"Only billionaires should pay higher taxes" discourse is downstream from a general belief that policy change need not involve tradeoffs, and that the very existence of tradeoffs is an automatic dealbreaker. My run-ins with people who hold this view are what will finally cause my psychotic break.

In a new report, Family Zoning is not going to build nearly enough homes per the City Economist. This is why we have been asking for an analysis like this. Now that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t pass the FZP. We should. But we got A LOT more work to do media.api.sf.gov/documents/25...

Fear, Greed, Civic Virtue and the Fall of the Elites talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/fear-...

Trump’s Republicans made themselves absolutely ridiculous saying this would be a “Hate America” riot that only the National Guard could control.

Bold strategy to say the Family Zoning Plan is almost right and then advance three ideas that make it demonstrably worse www.sfblueprint.org/blog/luries-...

This whole project is just an embarrassment of San Francisco process. It started IN 2018 and now has less housing affordable or otherwise. In 2019 they envisioned 800 or 900 homes, with 50 percent affordable. Now? Only 100 affordable. That’s a failure www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/a...

I urge @governor.ca.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to sign SB79 & allow more housing at transit hubs - and stem the population loss that's going to lose CA 4 electoral votes in 2030 as TX and FL gain 4 EACH. Help people stay in CA and move to CA - and retain our political power! @cayimby.bsky.social

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

"You shouldn't need a special handshake deal with Aaron Peskin to open up a business in North Beach" - My man @ira.bsky.social giving 🔥🔥 public comment just now in support of @dannysauter.bsky.social legislative package to eliminate layers and layers of corruption from our planning code

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

There is nothing more radicalizing than an SF planning commission meeting

Cannot be emphasized enough that anti-housing NIMBYs in places like California and New York are objectively working to support a durable MAGA hold on Congress and the presidency.

With the upcoming gerrymandering war, it's pretty clear that blue states who refused to build housing because it was turning red states purple just shot themselves in the foot big time. darrellowens.substack.com/p/california...

BIG news: The California Democratic Party just endorsed @scottwiener.bsky.social’s landmark housing bill #SB79, which legalizes multifamily homes near major public transit statewide! This marks a major shift in state politics: California Dems are *finally* embracing a party that builds!

“Los Angeles leaders are once again demonstrating their cowardice and failing their own constituents who desperately need more housing—and they’re doing it at the behest of LA’s wealthiest, most entitled voters, who have consistently blocked progress on housing affordability.” - @hanlon.bsky.social

Another example that drives me nuts is when people propose thing like building "teacher housing" in cities that struggle to hire teachers. Just build more housing in general! I promise it's better than assigning particular blocks to certain professional castes!

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

The overwhelming majority of San Francisco’s Victorian homes were built with facade elements that were mass produced in off-site factories and ordered from catalogs. Basically none of them were “hand carved.”

Is your job inherently evil? www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/when-do-yo...

Spot on:

We're so close to fixing key drivers of California's housing crisis: ✅️ SB 79 would legalize apartments near transit. ✅️ AB 130 would end frivolous litigation against infill. ✅️ AB 253 + AB 1308 would prevent permitting/inspection delays. ➡️ Here's how you can help.

A phenomenon that’s even more pronounced for the meetings that take place during the workday at City Hall

I did this; it only took 10 seconds; and the staffer was very polite. Call now!

imagine watching a small child struggle to breathe because of a measles infection and then going on your radio show to explain that the “human body was designed to fight measles” with the clear implication that if you die your body just wasn’t good enough.

Today I am yet again reminded of the urgent need to make it easier to build homes in California so that vulnerable people can actually afford to live in a state that protects them. What good are our vaunted protections if they come with an exorbitant price tag?

As @serogers.bsky.social knows, California will lose FOUR or FIVE Congressional seats (likely to Texas & Florida) in 2030 because of our exclusionary housing practices! In a time of crumbling democracy, we should be welcoming those who share our values, not pushing them out!

Excellent quotes from both Kate and @wafoli.bsky.social!

Amazing! Thank you @joshbecker.bsky.social for supporting SB79!

Believing that California cannot attract jobs and migrants like Texas does without also imitating its backwards, regressive social policies is such a loser mindset that this post should be declared an in-kind contribution to the Republican Party.

Indeed, a trust cannot be called blind when it’s your family members, you’re in contact all the time, their interests are aligned with your interests, etc. It’s quite misleading to use this term in news stories. It’s the laziest attempt to appear to be managing conflicts - essentially meaningless.

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

NEW: More than a dozen high-ranking executive branch officials and congressional aides made well-timed trades since Trump took office, most of them selling stock before the market plunged amid fears that Trump’s tariffs would set off a global trade war.

In a truly tectonic Overton Window shift, the California Assembly just voted 63-0 to advance #AB609, a major new bill by Buffy Wicks to create a statutory exemption from CEQA for environmentally friendly infill housing. Fantastic news for both housing and the environment!

Come talk about housing with the best neighbors in town! actionnetwork.org/events/housi...

This headline is representative of how conventions for describing conflicts of interest fundamentally mischaracterize and minimize their destructiveness. "Potential" implies that there will come a discrete moment, a clear interest vs. interest binary, that is clear and addressable.🧵 wapo.st/3F11lnU

trying to imagine the reaction to two planes falling off an aircraft carrier with kamala harris as president

Once again winning an event that other participants don’t consider a race (they’re wrong)

"Part of being a sanctuary is giving people a place to be. If we don't have housing we can't be a sanctuary. We can't live up to the values we espouse." 🔥 from @bpinsf.bsky.social and @d9neighbors.bsky.social today! www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/n...

Thank you, @sfchronicle.com for featuring D9 Neighbors on the front page of the paper, online, and in your daily newsletter today! www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/n...