After months of research, dozens of interviews, many tours, and two public hearings, I am so excited to announce the Housing Innovation bill package!

The time has come to raise the housing investment level in this country, just as we did in the 1960s and 1980s. We have a new report out this morning laying out just how high housing production numbers need to go—and for how many years—to dig us out of the shortage.

Assessor should not be a local elected office. There should be a board of assessors appointed by the state governor and affirmed by the legislature à la US Federal Reserve. Regional offices can collect data on rents and sales prices to build a differential land value layer in GIS.

NIMBY rationalization cycle: - building more housing raises prices - building more housing doesn't lower prices - building more housing does lower prices but that's exactly why the market wont build more <- WE ARE HERE - prices first need to rise for the market to build more housing - return to top

If 4x your property tax bill exceeds 30% of your annual income then you are cost-burdened. If not then stop complaining. I don’t make the rules.

Cities have been “thoroughly” upzoning by keeping the allowable building envelope small to "preserve neighborhood character" but which also ensures that the only thing more valuable than a new quadplex is the existing house.

> But that idea, according to a major new housing study [by schollars who desperately want that idea to be dead wrong], is dead wrong.

Are we the baddies?

More people are leaning into Modern Monetary Theory without realizing that high-spend + low-tax + low-debt only works if the spending is primarily on things that curb price inflation by increasing supply relative to demand. Only cutting income tax is absolutely a recipe for price inflation.

The Democratic Party is less popular than ICE?

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney was secretly recorded in 2012 saying that 47% of Americans were Morally Good*. *Dependent upon government, believe that they are victims, paid no federal income tax, would not take personal responsibility, and would vote for President Obama no matter what.

I'm not saying their votes shouldn't count at all, I'm just saying maybe their votes should be weighted by average remaining life expectancy.

Really sorry about that — I should have waited for your confirmation before launching the nukes. Won’t happen again. What civilization would you like to create next?

Explains @gavinnewsom.bsky.social posts for the past year

Nobody talks about, but the factories we need are not really very job dense per square foot. Like one might hire only dozens of people.

“Huntington Beach took its fight to the highest court in the country — and lost.” oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

random people *do* have the ability to make the government do (constitutional) things. It's called voting. If you're not able to make the government do what you want then that means you don't have the votes (yet).

“There are 15 million empty homes” is the Left NIMBY version of “there are 20 million dead people receiving social security benefits” just an absolute failure and unwillingness to look any deeper into the data if a superficial gleaning of it confirms your biases.

Hanford Mentioned!

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

New ep! We have on @georgiststeve.bsky.social (welcome back online!), and trying something new: instead of starting in the middle of things, an actual attempt to make an INTRODUCTION to LVT; why *should* people care? Plus many tangents and more‒ LISTEN >>>>>>>>> seethecat.org/ep/2026-02-1...

This is obviously about encountering a bodega cat in a 15 minute city

Future BART to Silicon Valley @vta.org

STOP talking shit about California Ballot Initiatives: • Prop 14 (1964): • Prop 13 (1978): • Prop 184 (1994): • Prop 187 (1994): • Prop 8 (2008): • Prop 22 (2020):

“We should BUILD with what we extract. We should not just set it on fire.” Hell yeah 👍

MAGA: the guy had a gun so he deserved it Carceral Urbanists: the guy had a history of traffic tickets, too

Unprompted cope in the family group chat this morning

Wrote a quick response to the latest anti-YIMBY research paper going around publiccomment.blog/p/sure-it-wo...

Young Californians have a message for @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov: run for governor!

Which is exactly why we should just go ahead and do it. One less excuse for the NIMBYs.

step 1 is this. step 2 is proportional representation

JD Vance right now:

Zohran be like:

Anyone else on here find it super annoying when other people spell it "tRump"? I don't like him as much as anybody, but why the stupid name-calling? Aren't you above that?

Elon Musk: “America is Toast if the Radical Left Wins” Translation: “*I* am toast if democrats control Congress”

Safer streets for all benefits drivers example number 827: Fewer accidents reduces insurance costs and lowers costs of operating a vehicle. And saving lives is also a bonus.

California YIMBY sends our fond congratulations to Senator Arreguín on his appointment as Chair of the Senate Housing Committee! We look forward to working with him to make California an affordable place to live, work, and raise a family.

Can’t tell if I actually like this song or if I am only associating it with Yzma from The Emperor’s New Groove whom I really do love as a character.

Teach the Controversy

Standard Time is a disaster for cycling.

when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Mergers and acquisitions are so interesting

This, but replace "cargo bikes" with "bigger cars"

Anyone who thinks height limits, setbacks, lot coverage, design standards, or stairway/elevator regulations, etc., aren't "zoning" is lost in the sauce.

> internalization of agglomeration externalities. The agglomeration we should be focusing on is centered over 50 miles away, my dude.