This is @bobbyfijan.bsky.social’s company. There are a lot of interesting technical aspects to it for urbanists to learn from. Even if you disagree with his politics (you’re on Bluesky, of course you do), keep in mind that they’re in line with those of the typical American developer and builder.

Last year I decided I was no longer satisfied just posting about housing. So I started a company with 3 other incredible dudes with the mission to build missing-middle housing at scale. Introducing... The American Housing Corporation It’s time to rebuild the American Dream.

Yeah there's way too much of that here. Same as with all of the immature anti-AI takes

This shit pisses me off about bsky A group of people are taking a huge risk to do something legitimately cool. The reaction on here has mostly been sarcastic cynicism. Is there a good chance they will fail? Yes. So what. Most ambitious ventures have a high chance of failure.

FWIW City of San diego housing permits are down 20% or so YoY in 2025. 23/24 were 9500 units each, to get the 8700 cited here 25 was around 7400 which was cited elsewhere by Goria (can't find reference) www.sandiego.gov/mayor/state-...

According to US Census data, 73,058 people work in this nondescript office building in Burbank. Did I discover a massive scam? Probably not. Turns out a payroll company is based there.

The problem with "courtyard urbanism" for LA is that developers get crazy-high densities out of 6-7 story double-loaded buildings with high lot coverage. The beautiful point-access block renderings are 1/3 the density or less How do you get land costs to work?

Here is a previously-released rendering of the new consulate building

A new project proposed for the Expo/Bundy neighborhood off of Pico Blvd. This project utilizes the "unlimited density loophole" in LA's CHIP program to build 40 units where the zoning only allows six.

I like this one! (although the drawing is from June, so the design may have changed)

South Korea has submitted plans to build a new building for their consulate on Wilshire Blvd in Koreatown

Trump says we don’t need permits now! 🥴 www.latimes.com/california/s...

OMG, "California Post" is going after SAJE in their inaugural issue lol nypost.com/2026/01/26/u...

Do I want to know what the "California Post's" solution to CA's housing crisis is?

Los Angeles received funding to add bike lanes to Jefferson Blvd between Vermont and Western in 2016... These bike lanes (less than one mile) are still under construction a decade later.

In a smaller city, a good city manager makes such a huge difference... In just four months, Santa Monica's new city manager was able to improve first-round permit plan check on-time completion from 51% to 93%!

Anyone know what’s going on with the Target hole-in-the-ground in Koreatown? They announced that the project was fully funded months ago, but construction hasn’t resumed.

I'm kinda surprised Holland Partners is moving forward with such a big project in LA in this environment, but this will be great for Echo Park. (Hopefully Taix really will return, though)

And Los Angeles needs many tens of thousands of SRO units like it. I don't know if you've noticed, but the city is in a homelessness crisis, not an "architectural heritage" crisis. The sheer tonedeafness of NIMBYs is why YIMBYs win.

"Upzoning is destroying LA neighborhoods" Oh yea? Here's the 1930 zoning map for this lot. It was zoned "B" aka "R4" What did R4 allow in 1930? Any residential use "without limitation on the height or area" This area has actually been DOWNZONED

AIDS Healthcare Foundation just started construction on a 250-unit affordable housing building in Miami Meanwhile in LA, AHF's 216-unit project has been stuck in permitting for three years now

I will be channeling the rage I feel today into doing everything I can over the next 10 months to ensure that Trump's goons lose control of Congress, and I urge every other red blooded American to do the same. We may not have a country if this lawlessness continues.

Anyone who starts a fire is working for ICE whether they know it or not.

A gas explosion near the top of a high-rise NYCHA building killed one person and injured 14, one critically, in the South Bronx this morning. I would love to see the Dept of Bldgs reform our codes and standards to make it way easier to get gas out of these old buildings nypost.com/2026/01/24/u...

Nuremberg trials or this country is done

Mexico said in the 2000s, let's make our cities completely unmanageable by building super-dense publicly-financed suburbs for the poor.

Want to get a boom in for-sale housing construction in California? Ballot measure idea: exempt from state income tax profits from new housing sold to homeowners below 6x county moderate income, if the money is re-invested into building for-sale housing.

Big ULA news in Los Angeles: The City Council introduced a motion today to put a measure to amend ULA (the “mansion” tax) on the 2026 ballot. (1/2)

Nolan is wrong. The state should NOT cut off any Metro funding. Instead, they should reorganize the Metro board (which the state legislature has control over) to better reflect transit riders

Sepulveda is worth celebrating though. Arguably the single most important rapid transit project in the nation, and it will be a sea change for transit use in LA. It’ll be SO much faster than car travel that it’ll drive a LOT of elective transit usage

Neo-Nazis on X have crowd sourced a "$7,000" crypto bounty for a black person to say "it do be like that Mr. Stancil" to him while trailing ICE. (The bounty is only $500 for a white person to do it in blackface)

The @whstancil.bsky.social memes are going crazy on Twitter right now

Hard agree. It’s just wrong! There’s a reason my community is full of Latino and Hmong and Somali people, and it’s because another America does exist and has existed. A free and welcoming America we can return to

Before and After: The 700-unit Jordan Downs housing project is being transformed into a 1,500-unit mixed income public housing community

Contrary to popular belief, garden style apartments can have good urbanism

Los Angeles is such an unserious place

Holy shit! California Together has a signed labor agreement. This might actually be happening?

Not only will the administration not back up their commitment in the slightest, but even the union boss is negotiating against himself in the article. Looks like they’re ready to throw the construction trades all the way under the bus.

“Austin has brought arts and music education back into LAUSD and throughout California with Prop 28. We’ve seen how Austin has brought change, and I think it’s the change that LA needs.” - Josué Louis Mancía, Music Teacher and Arts Advocate

The San Jose YIMBYs are being NIMBYs because this project isn’t dense enough (without knowing the details, I think Catalyze is probably wrong here, considering the location) mailchi.mp/catalyzesili...

Building in LA is completely broken, but you should be accurate about your criticism

This is generally not true any longer. Since Measure JJJ, LA City Councilmembers have very little discretion over individual development projects. And CHIP has opened up by-right pathways for a lot of projects that previously required discretionary approvals

I would prefer the State to actively structure the risk profile of the market by defining - minimum scope of warranty protections, including 3rd party inspectors during construction - creating objective performance standards to clarify what constitutes a defect for condos

One of the bits that gets lost in the condo defect risk conversation in California is that the higher cost of premiums itself is not the binding constraint to production. It’s that many carriers simply won’t write the policy for GCs, subs or designers irrespective of higher premiums.

It pisses me off so much that all of this was demolished

I wish there was a way to better link content between Twitter and here, because I'm in the trenches fighting Spencer Pratt about bus lanes, and no one here gets to see it

My reproduction with ACS (using rentgrs for housing costs and incearn for earnings) is not quite as tight but still pretty remarkable

94% of San Jose's residential land is zoned single family. Sure, SJ has a lot of permitted units that haven't been able to start construction because of cost issues, but those are mainly large projects with union labor. San Jose absolutely has a zoning problem.

@hunterowens.net I've been told you created this chart. Is that correct?

What's really frustrating about CA environmental laws is that CEQA is used to block housing/transit, meanwhile Boing won a lawsuit that will allow them to leave in place the most toxic, cancer-causing superfund site in the state