Time wasted this morning in San Francisco’s surface traffic because Amtrak @capitolcorridor.bsky.social thruway bus parks in front of Salesforce tower instead of Salesforce transit center

Condos are the dog that doesn’t bark in California housing. My article on how enabling middle-class homeownership requires fixing the multifamily for-sale market: housesac.substack.com/p/sacramento... @sacyimby.bsky.social @cayimby.bsky.social @muhammadspeaks.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcAU... <3

Sacramento deserves a regional rail system. What would it take to build it?

Trump wants to POSION YOUR CHILDREN! Governor Gavin Newsom won’t let him. Don’t believe the tabloid headlines. EPA isn’t stopping California from enforcing California law.

Governor Newsom, I’m asking you to fast track this bill. Our democracy is hanging by a thread, and accountability cannot wait.

Classic US transit agency staff behavior. Utterly inexplicable

I'm not a constitutional lawyer, but I trust @raders.bsky.social and @protectdemocracy.org, and I support this idea. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

The elites and institutions have folded but regular people haven’t

Except for unicorns like @louismirante.bsky.social. You gotta look for the 10x lobbyists

New from me: A brief for @rooseveltinstitute.org on the logic of YIMBY policymaking and its applicability to other domains. What principles underlying the YIMBY agenda are transferrable to thinking about energy, healthcare, and other areas? Short 🧵 to follow. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Can we make THIS the default NPS question? "if asked" does a lot here.

Attempting to use the search function in Outlook calendar is guaranteed to ruin my entire day.

Gang

Where the hell is the rice

No thanks, I'll pay full price

Very dumbed down lit review: - "institutional" landlords are more likely to charge market rate rent, and to file evictions, but also less likely to discriminate based on race, sex, or bad credit - "mom and pop" may undercharge vs. market, less likely to evict, but also more likely to discriminate

One of my favorite lesser-known bands of the 2000s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw-A...

It appears Sacramento region environmentalists may have successfully killed a solar project.

Faving my friends' posts on here.

It's very funny to me that developers in Sacramento will build and rent market rate apartments at $1700/mo and those in SF build and rent similar apartments at $3200/mo and yet both will often say some version of "zoning & process doesn't really matter for us, the big obstacle is financing."

Happy new year!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDuJ... really good

My pro-housing wish list for 2026: - statewide base zoning layer - CEQA exemption for zoning code updates to match General Plan map - legalize small lot development by enabling point access blocks in building code - unlock for-sale housing by reforming condo construction defect law What else?

State funded projects should be entitled and permitted by the state. This situation is absurd.

We are a creedal nation. That creed is working over 40 hours/week and having boundless access to consumer credit. JD Vance can never take that from us

SUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Transit's main competition is cars. If you raise fares from $2.50 to $3, you're still way more affordable than driving. But if you cut the bus from every 15 to every 20, you're screwed because cars have infinity frequency and 24 hr service span.

Anyone seen any numbers on CA-01? Like a construction of LaMalfa, Denney, and McGuire‘s results by county in the last few elections?

Idk how I can have 15k followers and ZERO engagement??? For one, I’m not *that* boring??? And two, I genuinely think something is wrong with Bluesky’s algo.

I’m Audrey Denney, and I’m running for Congress in California’s First District: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScGY... I believe in the power and resilience of the North State. When things get hard, we show up for each other. Now, we’ll show up together: www.AudreyforCongress.com. #AudreyforCongress

I last ate here with my uncle this summer lol this is the family spot Used to eat here all the time when I worked at the farm

Julotta dawn church service - a Swedish American tradition - with my wife, dad, and son in Butte County this morning. Merry Christmas.

NEW VIDEO: Let's talk about proportional representation www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/lets-talk-...

Flood Advisory issued December 24 at 9:45PM PST until December 25 at 9:00PM PST by NWS Sacramento CA Additional Details Here.

A project I led is mentioned in this video! It was a demanding yet fun year at CAISO. I really like working here.

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

Today the California State Senate pro Tempore, that body's leader, released the committee assignments for 2026, and I would say that they're quite good overall for housing legislation's prospects. There are some tight corners, but also a path. Next session starts in just a few weeks!

Ian Choudri has got that dawg in him

the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

It’s wild that we spend years, with significant community engagement, to draft comprehensive plans, and we don’t automatically update zoning codes to match those plans. Instead, American planners often need to restart years of new battles to change zoning. This system has so many veto points

California's construction defect liability system was supposed to protect consumers. But a new report suggests it has become a barrier, preventing middle-income families from buying condos and townhomes in California’s expensive cities:

Do not forget that the Central Valley goes all the way up to Redding. Never let them take this away from you.

As someone who used to have a long car commute, I can just feel the crushing weight of that in so many of these comments. It takes a toll. And yet we still have not built the requisite housing or transit connections to reduce this commuting burden.

Okay, now do property owners

In Santa Monica, the FPPC has disqualified pro-housing Councilmember Jesse Zwick from all future housing votes. They said that because he works for a housing non-profit, he’s “conflicted” and must recuse. Pretty absurd. The NIMBY deep state strikes again. www.smdp.com/state-regula...

tonight the government killed a story on cbs about the slave labor camp in a foreign country theyre illegally sending people to

any US American born before 1980 can’t cook… all they know is asset price inflation, low wages, low goods inflation, eat hot chip , and lie

some of the best advice I’ve heard in business, which also translates to politics: “respond to events.“

Two weeks ago, a very dear friend of my parents was killed while cycling by an SUV driver who turned left into him without looking. The CHP officer tried to protect his killer by bizarrely claiming *he* had been at fault. Even when presented with VIDEO evidence, CHP appears to be doubling down.