Claude Code rules. After hacking a Gibson, I updated Palo Alto's zoning code. Which city should get Manhattanized next?

Every single report to shareholders from a large REIT includes something about how it's great that market-rate multifamily housing isn't getting built in high-cost coastal cities because the shortage is what allows them to rent gouge.

SF has atrocious transit for people who value their time. I wish SF transit advocates would stop pretending the transit status quo is acceptable. We look unserious to normies when we praise our third-world transit system.*

If we believe (rightly) that clean energy technologies have a ton of potential domestically, then there's little downside to O&G permitting concessions and facilitating export alongside big reforms to clean energy interconnection, T&D, and permitting. You either believe clean tech works or don't.

“Improving the epistemic environment” for decision makers (including voters!) is an underrated philanthropic effort.

The most important thing AC Transit can do is to set actual speed, frequency and reliability service goals (vision timetable) for the network. That way ACT, host cities, the public and funders know what discrete improvements are supposed to add up to.

California legislators and committee consultants will tell you that the monthly fee for an ignition interlock device ($12 with the subsidy) is too great a financial burden for low-income who have killed someone with their vehicle.

I unexpectedly have ~2 hours free in DC tonight. Anyone up?

Very upsetting that ACLU is pro-drunk driving. Requiring in-car breathalyzers for people convicted of a DUI is not "a form of racialized wealth extraction." People of all backgrounds are getting killed and maimed by reckless drivers. Let's stop the carnage! calmatters.org/newsletter/c...

Still thinking about this article. It’s always been a sore spot in YIMBY circles that so many progressive foundations pour money into NIMBYism, and I’m glad it’s finally being aired in public. Keep talking about it. www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...

"The buildings that single-stair promotes are just more — what’s the word? Nicer. They’re nicer." Love this quote from @edmendoza.bsky.social! calmatters.org/housing/2025...

Georgia also boasts to most metal statue, Kartlis Deda. "She symbolizes the Georgian national character: in her left hand she holds a bowl of wine to greet those who come as friends, and in her right hand is a sword for those who come as enemies"

Just in time for weekend reading: a 110 page PDF of foundations behaving badly. Note these findings represent an undercount of foundation support for anti-housing orgs in CA. YIMBY groups are massively outspent by left-NIMBYs!

This piece is based on research showing that since 2018 major foundations have given more than a quarter of a billion dollars to nonprofits that went on to oppose YIMBY legislation in California

Foundations should stop funding groups that advance harmful housing policies. These left-NIMBY nonprofits dwarf the YIMBY movement w/r/t funding and paid staff. Great piece from @resnikoff.bsky.social! www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the San Diego Legislative Town Hall. Your energy, ideas, and commitment made the conversation productive and the day a real success.

Because for many people, political activism is supposed to help you self actualize by performing virtuous acts of service on behalf of a more deserving Other. Taking and using political power to improve your own material circumstances is considered vulgar and inappropriate.

“SB 827 was a BC/AD event for housing policy in America,” @hanlon.bsky.social says. “We’re not going to solve this through marginal tax credit, low-income housing projects. No. You just need to legalize fucking apartment buildings.”

Disappointed in SF: Lael Neale didn’t sell-out a small venue on Thursday night. Give her a listen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUA4...

Which rail operator should audit @caltrain.com to help them improve service?

Mayor Bass will fail to solve homelessness, as will any politician who listens to traditional “equity” and homeless advocates, because you can’t end mass homelessness without fixing the housing market.

“Mostly” ≠ “completely” Individual candidate positions matter less today than ~30 years ago, but they still matter! For that reason, it’s *more* harmful to candidates in swing districts to have a bunch of lefty coastal elites define the Democratic Party today!

It's not too late - join California YIMBY, pro-housing leaders Sen. Wiener, Asm. Wicks, Sen. Arreguín, and more at our most victorious Victory Party! secure.actblue.com/donate/sfvp-...

Come party with me and the @cayimby.bsky.social crew at our annual Victory Party on 10/30 in SF! There's been a lot of winning this year and I'm bringing the wine! secure.actblue.com/donate/sfvp-...

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

Great 🧵 about the power of far-sighted and risk-taking philanthropists! Thanks to Open Philanthropy for your early and consistent support. @cayimby.bsky.social could not have achieved these victories without you!

Not exaggerating when I say that SB 79, a bill making it easier to build housing near mass transit, is the most consequential piece of legislation that the Democratic Party has passed all year. Saying no to the worst people in our coalition proves we're serious about the future.

It's done. Thank you @gavinnewsom.bsky.social for signing SB 79! California can and will build the future!

Between my column a few weeks ago and this today, California's Serbian-American community has really been stepping up to promote SB 79 in the pages of CalMatters.

TIRED: abundance bros WIRED: YIMBY's strongest fortnite soldiers

That's where you come in: Call Gov. Newsom and tell him to sign SB 79! Get five friends to do the same. Post about and tag him! This is all trivially easy, but it could make a big difference. 916-445-2841 actionnetwork.org/letters/sign...

Three months ago, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social correctly warned us that failing to address our housing crisis would cost us people’s trust, and that the entire reputation of the State of California was on the line. Call him now and urge him to follow through by signing #SB79! ☎️ (916) 445-2841

A bunch of toxic LA NIMBYs are whining about SB 79, the amazing housing bill the CA legislature passed recently. It's on the governor's desk, and reportedly he's getting cold feet. Hey @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, please have some spine on the most important issue in your state. Just sign it.

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...

I strongly agree with every single word of this. Public disorder is toxic to the pro urbanist political project and we must take it seriously.

After 8 years, we did it! SB 79, the biggest upzoning bill in state history, just passed the Legislature. Brief 🧵, with some important thank yous. 1/x

Proudly voted for #SB79 to build dense, transit oriented housing. If not here, where else? I’ve lived near transit all my life. But too much of it is stuck as suburbs. Cities are evolving, living things. They are not mausoleums to the past @scottwiener.bsky.social @cayimby.bsky.social

"The rent was so cheap you could afford to take risks" Meet Me in the Bathroom is a land use documentary. Make California* cool again - pass SB 79!

political violence is a terrible scourge that has claimed victims from both parties the way some people are just itching to treat this as a reichstag fire moment to enable a dictatorship is extremely scary and a good reminder that political violence is a threat to the very core of liberal democracy

Calls to state legislators actually make a huge difference and can change how they vote on big bills. If you live in California, picking up the phone and calling your state senator and assembly member RIGHT NOW in support of SB 79 will do more to advance YIMBYism than 10,000 great posts would.

SB 79 (Wiener) could be heard on the Assembly floor today! NIMBYs are calling and potting against SB 79. Don't let them speak for you - please call and ask your Assemblymember to vote AYE on SB 79, and ask your friends, family, and frenemies to do likewise. cayimby.org/call-sb-79/

SF Chronicle endorses SB 79! Please call you Assemblymember and ask them to vote AYE! cayimby.org/call-sb-79/

You should absolutely do it because the ones who are mad will call them.

The empirical evidence is clear and overwhelming: new market rate housing reduces rents *at the bottom of the market,* making housing more affordable for those who struggle the most.

California YIMBY is hiring a Political Director. Want to remake the politics of California and end the housing shortage? This job might be for you! cayimby.org/careers-poli...

@essj.bsky.social Nice shout-out in the Times today! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/a...

Developers and planners in California: we are tracking SB 684 and SB 1123 projects and ordinances. As you become aware of them, please send them my way! We hope to use this information to continue improving these laws.