Two of the bills I am working on made it through their first committee today!

We gotta bring back the productive kind of national shame. Not the throwing up your hands and going “what can you do, we suck” kind but the “I’ll be GODDAMNED if I let the fucking FRENCH have better TRAINS” kind

Berghain is cool, especially if you like adaptive reuse architecture, but not worth waiting hours in line for.

First bill hearing of the session. Let’s go!

AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted. To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”

Yes, there are fewer barriers to the president ordering a nuclear strike than to a landowner who wants to build an apartment complex

The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.

The Southern California Association of Governments deserves a better name because "SCAG" sounds like a slightly antiquated British misogynist slur and/or a woman-fronted power metal band that used to open for Lady Gaga.

We need more homes. Developers want to make money building the homes we need in the places people want to live. We should let them do so.

Someone is always going to make money on housing. The choice before us is whether public policy should make it hard to build new homes, which lets landlords get rich on housing scarcity, or whether we should let developers profit by building new homes for people to live in, which brings down prices.

Congress should impeach, convict, and remove the President.

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

Funny article where European academics puzzle over the fact that there are very few policy efforts to harmonize regulations across the US construction market academic.oup.com/publius/arti...

The state housing laws in question are designed to balance local control and the need for housing growth by giving cities broad discretion to plan for *how* they want to grow while requiring that they actually follow those plans. Any effects on the city’s masculinity are purely incidental.

Good piece from @loridroste.bsky.social on the need for IZ and fee reform at the local level. www.spur.org/news/2026-04...

This is the first time I have seen a skate-stopper that is itself skate-stopped.

In other words, Karen Bass's housing policies are thwarting her marquee anti-homelessness program. Mayor Bass should have a word with Mayor Bass about this.

Want to celebrate passing smaller elevator reform (SB 5156) and learn more? Join @sightline.org and @welcomingneighbors.us for a panel discussion and Q+A all about elevators. Register here: www.sightline.org/going-up-or-...

When a 1-unit house is replaced with ONE larger house, the new house is ~3X pricier. When replaced by 5+ houses, each new house will be (on avg) cheaper than the original house. www.aei.org/research-pro... Change is part of the deal. Will we choose greater physical change, or greater price change?

Donald Shoup was a total mensch.

Donald Shoup was a total mensch.

Taking public transit to Monster Jam because I am an urbanist who contains multitudes.

Building all kinds of things in cities should be easy. The planning profession does not believe this and they need to be stopped.

the rise of the incel and the rise of the strongman are two connected and mutually reinforcing responses to the evils of modernity. new post

Juicy Love Dion looks like a glamorous chicken nugget.

guys, bluesky is dying. if we don't start getting more likes, a greedy developer will bulldoze the site to put up a parking garage. the only thing that can save it is for a ragtag crew of misfits to put on one last big concert at the community center.

I will not be participating in short form vertical video.

Toured the Marin Civic Center with @edmendoza.bsky.social.

“The Color of Law” on the table in the foreground is a nice Easter egg.

A population study tracking 30 years of housing moves found that by the third round of a moving chain, new market-rate homes free up units for households earning 60% of average income. Without new construction, old homes don't filter down — they get renovated up. cayimby.org/blog/movin-o...

John Elberling dead at 79.

I think the framing of “unintended consequences” is partially flawed. You tax stuff you want to see less of. For example, congestion pricing in NYC is to reduce driving. If you tax real estate transactions, you’ll have less development. I think ULA proponents wanted less market rate housing

HELLO SIR, IF YOU WANT TO IMPROVE HOUSING AFFORDABILITY, IT DOESN’T HELP TO BAN RENTAL HOUSING

Wild how you can just smell AI prose.

We are proud to announce our 2026 bill package to make our communities more walkable, bikeable, and transit-oriented. Here’s what we’ve got going on in Sacramento this year:

The two best housing tweets were Affordable Burger King and White Ways Of Knowing And Being.

“The choices are not between market reforms and housing justice, but between an all-of-the-above strategy and one that rejects the best available evidence on housing supply and affordability out of hand.” - @resnikoff.bsky.social

Renters are people too, and efforts to expand homeownership access shouldn't come at the cost of restricting rental options. publiccomment.blog/p/against-ho...

that's right

We’re making progress!

Research actually shows the institutional ownership of single-family homes reduces rents somewhat

Give this guy the key to YIMBYtown

Call me old fashioned but I think that if you are going to claim that corporations are monopolizing regional housing markets and raising rents then your evidence should be stronger than “three companies own 0.01% of the homes in Atlanta, where rents are roughly in line with the national average.”

The current 6-day Jeopardy champion works at a housing tax credit agency in New Jersey and for his banter with Ken he just looked directly at the camera and said "New York, California, shame on you, build more housing" and folks when I say heroes walk among us

get in loser. we're building housing.

"Stopping big money from constructing rental homes goes a step further; it reflects a peculiar type of American populism that combines a right-wing fetish for suburbia’s homeowner society with a left-wing distrust of investment capital." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

When I was a kid and we moved to the 'burbs, we rented first. Mom and Dad wanted to test out whether they liked the neighborhood, and then they eventually bought a place there when the house across the street went up for sale.

Cracking down on single family rentals will exclude poor and working people from desirable neighborhoods. It is profoundly inequitable.