Deep dive researching all the housing the bills that are waiting signatures from @governor.ca.gov Newsom. SB 79 awaits that big ol' pen. Please sign.

"Ride in Style to Protest" It's fun getting a peek behind the curtain. How do NIMBYs organize protests?

“If I had a silver bullet, I’d shoot impact fees in the face” Heard at IMN ADU Conference.

me this morning: oh, ezra is trending. wonder if we're talking about abundance again. me this afternoon: 🫠

This is my complete map for where SB 79 will apply in LA County for July 2026. Let me know if you want to see an area zoomed in!

"This technique is very powerful..." Is it just me or does the SB 79 zoning map look a little like the bottom of the Wu Tang Clan coming in around Beverly Hills?

It's crunch time, YIMBYs! 🗣️Years of work depend on a vote that will happen today. Today is the day to take action. If you've already called/texted/emailed, do it again. If it's your first time, it's not too late. LET'S PASS SB 79 AND FIX CALIFORNIA! cayimby.org/call-sb-79/

Calling my state senator live and showing you how to call to support SB 79 for more housing near transit: youtube.com/live/BeY9lOq...

SB 79 made it through the assembly and goes back to the senate for concurrence (hopefully this afternoon). Use this link to find your SENATOR and call their capitol office: findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov Remind them that you support SB 79 and urge an Aye vote. Tell them you live in the district

It's happening.

Calling my assembly person live for SB 79. We'll see if I have better luck today youtube.com/live/_VCtiO-...

The most important YIMBY bill of the year is up for a floor vote, and your last minute phone call can (weirdly) convince legislators that they should vote for it. cayimby.org/call-sb-79/

Let's call to support more housing near transit (via SB 79) youtube.com/live/tI-hdvC... My representative's voicemail box is full so we need to drown out the NIMBYs who are calling in today. When the voicemail box is full, google your assembly member's other office numbers and call the capitol #

I think it's weird that my friends who are very knowledgeable about prop 50 in California are often surprised to learn about the 3 vacant seats in the house of representatives via gerontomandering. www.businessinsider.com/8-members-co...

My day got hijacked, and I'm grateful. I'm very lucky to have so many unexpected, wonderful conversations. YouTubers who I can't believe have me on speed dial. Teachers who are willing to share their private housing stories. The list goes on. Thanks, world. Keep on hijacking.

Well that's a new one. ChatGPT just slipped into Persian, replacing the word "project" with پروژه

The government used to have rental registries. And badass posters. www.loc.gov/resource/cph... www.loc.gov/pictures/res...

Just subscribed to @mercurynews.com to get by the paywall and read an article. My digital subscription won't be available until tomorrow? But it's news. It's news today. :(

@alexis-madrigal.bsky.social your depiction of Ms. Margaret is so good. I'm learning how to tell personal human-scale stories like this that help illustrate big global issues. And you're weaving between an office tour and a gumbo and the African American diaspora. Is there a class I can take?!

I'm working on an interview with an 84 year old who is rebuilding her home in Altadena (west of Lake), and it's just devastating to find the redlining maps that were in effect when she was born. This stuff isn't ancient history. It's living memory. Source: global.oup.com/us/companion...

Facebook requires me to manually filter all these bot accounts out one at a time :(

I really thought the guy who wrote about why our politics are so divisive would be able to write about housing politics without making it so divisive 😅 Free copy of Abundance to the next person who signs up for redtaperecordings.com/early and DMs me about it. #buildinpublic

Just got Comet up and working. Things are a bit rough for now (ie it's a pretty poor assistant/intern where you have to re-do a lot of what it works on from scratch) but I can definitely see how every browser will want to include some kind of natural language interface soon.

New launch from @jerusalem.bsky.social www.theargumentmag.com/about

Got our first several users registered for Red Tape Recordings last week. It's very exciting to see activists immediately diving into the demo of government meeting transcripts and search features, before on-demand transcripts are even built out :) redtaperecordings.com/early #buildinpublic

Save yourself hours every time you need to find out what happened in a government meeting. redtaperecordings.com/early We are creating power tools for the most effective advocates and stakeholders. Register now and you'll get early access as I release more tools.

New word for when AI companies say that the tech is super dangerous in a way that convinces people to invest more in AI... Hype-o-critical ?

"the architectural qualities that are inherent in pre-World War II buildings: complexity, richness, and attention to detail" 🙄 Here's an actual pre-war building in SF: upfromthedeep.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/e...

ChatGPT says it's Tuesday.

While vibe coding, GPT 4.1 keeps telling me what it thinks I should do. And I just keep saying the same thing... Do it lady On your birthday. All of it. At once. www.youtube.com/watch?v=miE0...

Best talk I've seen on the topic of using LLMs to make city council meetings readable and searchable: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjDQ... Can't believe it's got <700 views This is so important.

Is this a crime of some kind? Claiming a city opposes state legislation when the authority hasn’t been properly given by the city? @calmatters.org @propublica.org The portal that lets me upload support and opposition letters doesn’t use any kind of authentication that I’ve seen.

Pinch me, I'm building. calmatters.org/housing/2025...

@loridroste.bsky.social congrats :)

Sounds like Berkeley City Council has that votes to replace all residential zoning (outside the firezones) with Middle Housing after 6 years of debate and studies. 70 dwelling units per acre, 60% lot coverage, 3-story limit. In all non-fire risk residential zones below.

Berkeley approves some really good zoning. The room goes wild at 11:49 PM with a unanimous vote!

Hot take: The same thing that prevents NIMBYs from understanding timed public comment also prevents them from understanding housing scarcity. If you can't understand that you stop talking when the timer hits zero and beeps at you and the mayor says 'thank you - that is your time - please stop"...

"I'm not a NIMBY at all, but..." Only counted like eight of these public comments tonight. Not a bad ratio.

Jordan is literally capturing every single public comment in his live coverage of the Berkeley City Council's Middle Housing Ordinance tonight. He's a machine.

My favorite YIMBY is this kid. Attends all the events. Very attentive. Very progressive views on middle housing. The mom's cool too @sonjatrauss.bsky.social It's time to hop in and support missing middle housing ordinance and CM Kesarwani's amendment cityofberkeley-info.zoomgov.com/j/1612354681

@jakegotta.bsky.social wrote the more complete story on this! www.kpbs.org/news/local/2...

Everybody is so busy screaming about bonus ADUs in San Diego that they missed the important news: SD just approved the separate sale of ADUs (including bonus ADUs). Kudos to @acbowen.bsky.social for being the only reporter I found who mentioned the separate sale amendment.

The city of San Diego is reviewing Bonus ADUs today. sandiego.granicus.com/player/camer... This time, they actually put it on the agenda and everything. I'll be watching and sharing thoughts.

A great story about that time we endorsed a NIMBY. inpractice.yimbyaction.org/p/we-endorse... Seriously though, it's really good reading on how endorsements/politics work and how @yimbyaction.bsky.social thinks about the process. And what we do moving forward...

Different kind of NIMBY www.npr.org/2025/06/06/1... People demand manufacturing return to the US, but not where they live. Specifically it should go to where poor people live. Unhinged, screaming public comment. Allegations of horse-poisoning. What else? via @planetmoney.bsky.social

This is a very sad "bus stop" outside of Denver. Sign post beside a curbless, gutter with no sidewalk. :(

California's ADU Amnesty law - how is it actually being implemented? I do a side by side comparison of the best and worst jurisdictions in the latest video on the channel. Spoilers: NIMBYs be NIMBYing. youtube.com/c/howtoadu/videos

New lapel pin for the next time I’m in Sacramento supporting SB 79 - more homes near transit @mtcbata.bsky.social @scottwiener.bsky.social @cayimby.bsky.social

If you've got time to call your senator, this website patches you through to their office and gives you some talking points. It just takes a minute to share your name and zip code (so they know you're a constituent) and you ask for them to support SB 79 (or whatever you think they should do).

The debate about the book Abundance has been really puzzling. It sounds like this to me: