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"Shared experience is the foundation of a successful polity, and it is not a stretch to think that simply educating children in integrated schools would begin to close the divides that have paralyzed our politics." Opinion | The Coronavirus and The Cities We Need - The New York Times (
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about 2 years ago
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Max Dubler, AICP 🏳️🌈
7 days ago
*staring directly into the camera*
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Sean Casten fights.
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9 days ago
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The goal of progressive politics should be to make Los Angeles Palms, which would make California Los Angeles and America California.
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9 days ago
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μμπ
11 days ago
Here’s how to reach her office to tell her that we Angelenos are tired of NIMBY nonsense and will vote accordingly.
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Fred, 55e Division d'Infanterie disrespecter
12 months ago
The rest of the country is lucky California NIMBYed itself 50 years ago, or else it would have 80 million people and the largest metro area in the country and would basically do what it wants. As it is, it is just very rich and can afford lots of stupid policies and still be capable.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
13 days ago
california is the america of america, you might even say
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If the rest of LA were building housing like Sawtelle is then there would be no housing crisis.
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Mixed-use apartment building planned at 1861 S. Bundy Drive in Sawtelle
Hudson Pacific Properties is preparing to redevelop a portion of its Element LA office campus in Sawtelle with housing, according to an application submitted yesterday to the Los Angeles Department of...
https://la.urbanize.city/post/mixed-use-apartment-building-planned-1861-s-bundy-drive-sawtelle
13 days ago
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Grateful to Kathy Hochul for proving that upstate NY is capable of producing Good Politicians.
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21 days ago
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Sentinel Media Company
25 days ago
Utica welcomed just over a dozen new citizens at a naturalization ceremony on Thursday, Dec. 4.
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Citizens from 11 different nations sworn in as new Americans
Utica welcomed just over a dozen new citizens at a naturalization ceremony on Thursday, Dec. 4.
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“We don’t want to come off as NIMBYs..." -Literally Every NIMBY Ever
27 days ago
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Casaubon
about 1 month ago
There is basically zero YIMBY literature and sci-fi other than Toni Morrison's Jazz and The Expanse.
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Great
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quote: “The buildings that single-stair promotes are just more - what’s the word? Nicer. They’re nicer.”
about 1 month ago
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Upzone Carmel.
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Wealthy California coastal city bans pickleball, saying it 'turned into a madhouse'
Carmel-by-the-Sea recently became the first California city to ban pickleball at public facilities. The fast-growing sport has sparked noise complaints throughout the nation.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-26/carmel-becomes-first-california-city-to-ban-pickleball
about 1 month ago
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… all men are created equal…
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about 2 months ago
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Joe Friday I'm In Love
about 2 months ago
I'm convinced that 75-85% of NIMBYism is simply "I am older now and I hate it and I want the places where I spent my younger days to look the same so I can pretend I'm not as old as I am."
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Max Dubler, AICP 🏳️🌈
about 2 months ago
"The measure’s first batch of affordable housing funds totaled $55.6 million. If all of that money went to labor — excluding land, building materials or other development costs — each of those 10,000 workers would have received $5,560. Is that enough to create a union job?"
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Armor Port
about 2 months ago
Because I’ve seen what HOA meetings do to a man. The lawns are too green, the souls too soft. I speak like this because the spirit of war died in a cul-de-sac, and I was there to bury it—alone, beneath the flicker of a Ring doorbell camera.
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Contrarian opinion: Mamdani’s election actually does have national Implications. Not because it’s relevant to swing district D’s or whatever, but because it’s indicative of the way the sensibilities of big city Dems are changing. And big city Dems are the ones who run the party.
about 2 months ago
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This is the future California YIMBYs want.
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about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
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Abolish LA City Council.
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about 2 months ago
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Delirium Noël Jr.
2 months ago
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rev. howard arson
2 months ago
my paternal great grandparents got off a boat in Newark and were americans from the moment they touched american soil. my only objection to that pattern is that i think we should send a plane to pick up anyone who declares themselves an american.
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Who’s your favorite Jedi? (right answers only) Loden Greatstorm and Bell Zettifar Art by
@jakebartok.bsky.social
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2 months ago
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josh vredevoogd
2 months ago
my favorite part of this project was realizing a short 24/7 bus lane though the Los Angeles Country Club qualifies and the 1/2 mile catchment will upzone a ton of mansions in Holmby Hills (falling just short of the Playboy Mansion)
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Maine is like if the San Fernando Valley got to elect two senators, it would be crazy if a candidate for that office *didn’t* know everyone in the state.
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3 months ago
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SB 79 solves this.
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3 months ago
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Joe Cohen
3 months ago
SB 79 Party tonight, 8:30pm, Westwood Rancho Park station
partiful.com/e/8YB6kRtt4n...
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RSVP to SB 79 Signing Celebration | Partiful
SB79 celebration at the Westwood/Rancho Park station at 8:30pm tonight!!! Hosted by Westside for Everyone and Los Angeles New Liberals North cul-de-sac by the bikeshare and greenway entrance Afterpa...
https://partiful.com/e/8YB6kRtt4nvQsExAn7HU
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑
3 months ago
Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.
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3 months ago
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Hunter Owens
3 months ago
man, the Expo TNP upzoning around Expo Bundy is really resulting in huge results - was at the station yesterday and saw 4 buildings under construction, and now this
la.urbanize.city/post/eight-s...
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Eight-story, 42-unit development planned at 2219 S. Wellsely Avenue
In a familiar tale, single-family homes located just south of Metro's Expo/Bundy Station in Sawtelle are set to give way to apartments, according to a recent application to the Los Angeles Department ...
https://la.urbanize.city/post/eight-story-42-unit-development-planned-2219-s-wellsely-avenue
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Blessed to live in a city where the newspaper still works.
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3 months ago
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Why is this person getting ratioed? G&T programs for kindergartners are self-evidently absurd.
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3 months ago
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I left a message asking Governor Newsom to sign SB 79 and so can you.
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3 months ago
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Ezra Klein seems like the kinda guy who’d blame Democrats for Trump because they voted for Obama instead of Romney.
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3 months ago
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The Los Angeles Times is the newspaper everyone wishes the New York Times would be.
3 months ago
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Dr Grace Peng
3 months ago
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This tracks
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3 months ago
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josh vredevoogd
4 months ago
obviously unending work still left to do and plenty of reasons to be pessimistic but it’s about as a good a time as any to be an LA booster
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@faizahforla.bsky.social
is a progressive, pro-housing candidate running against Traci Park in CD11. Please follow and, if you can, contribute to her campaign. If you live in LA, then your contribution is matched by the city up to $143!
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3 months ago
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The Cultural Revolution is the best comp for what’s happening in American politics right now. The biggest difference is that China during the CR was a one party state and the party was popular - America has two parties and the Maoist one is terminally unpopular.
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4 months ago
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Idk why it took me so long to appreciate this but SB 79 rezones the southwest quadrant of Sawtelle, which is the only part of the neighborhood still zoned single family. We’re gonna get so many more neighbors this is awesome.
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4 months ago
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Zennon Ulyate-Crow
4 months ago
Showing YIMBYs true bipartisan nature, 35% of Assembly Republicans voted for SB 79. And even though
@cademocrats.bsky.social
endorsed the legislation, only 42% of Assembly Democrats voted for the bill. Ironic considering CA will lose 3-5 Dem congressional seats if we don't grow.
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One of the great things about Condé Nast publications is they generally don’t play the clickbait game of forcing you to click to reveal the answer to some headline prompt.
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4 months ago
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Throw in Bloomberg and Condé Nast (Teen Vogue, Wired, and The New Yorker) and that’s all the mass news media anyone should consume.
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4 months ago
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Mott Smith
4 months ago
The uncomfortable truth is that ULA is raising less money than promised, hobbling the real estate market, slowing property tax growth, and producing almost no affordable housing.
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4 months ago
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[email protected]
4 months ago
financial press remains the last bastion of investigative journalism as the rest of it devolves into self-flaggelating debate brain punditry. in financial reporting, lying has consequences so credibility actually matters. elsewhere we have this blogosphere stuff
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Ned Resnikoff
4 months ago
There's a increasingly wide gulf between what you might call "local abundance"—which largely consists of liberal and progressive activists and local electeds trying to do YIMBY-type things—and "DC abundance," which hosts conferences where Oren Cass is a speaker for some reason.
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YIMBY advocacy -> more housing 20 homes -> 621 homes
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