BART's newly released concepts for what they'll do if Connect Bay Area transit funding measure fails are terrifying. Phase 1: 63% train hours cut & 10 station closures Phase 2: Cumulative 70% train hours cut, 15 station closures Phase 3 (if required): END BART SERVICE We must pass the measure! 🧵

Content warning toward the very end, but a vital video from @jamellebouie.net. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_71...

Here's a little rundown of what I've been up to lately: Finishing my book, writing about bureaucracy for @dissentmag.bsky.social and YIMBYism for @rooseveltinstitute.org, and researching how cities in California can finance climate resilience infrastructure. publiccomment.blog/p/recent-wor...

Bonta is the future of the Democratic party: he is aggresively pursuing a policy agenda that brings together abundists, neo-Brandeisians, and resist libs.

I'm excited for this measure. It's going to require a lot of coordination between organizers across the Bay. Lessons learned in municipal campaigns in 2024 will help inform this one, which is going to be a huge lift!

No one can say we didn’t try! ❤️

It is time @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov

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

RALLY: ROB BONTA FOR GOVERNOR - Sunday Jan. 11 at 11:00am WHERE: Elihu M. Harris State Office Building (outside main entrance), Downtown Oakland

Another day, another opportunity to post the miraculous housing story unfolding in Berkeley charted out by @jwbee.bsky.social

Berkeley 👀

“when can my city get a Zohran” we already have our in Berkeley, that’s @cecilialunaparra.bsky.social, she makes housing vision charts with rose logos on them

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scientists urge support of Berkeley’s middle housing ordinance.

Also, we shouldn't be building "moderate income" units, period. If people with moderate incomes can't afford decent market-rate housing in your city, you need to do something about the market rate itself. www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/18/m...

crazy that an influx of dense infill housing can lower prices and make homeownership more attainable

Oregon is lapping CA when it comes to housing reforms. Even in Portland (which would have similar politics to Berkeley), missing middle is producing units affordable below AMI without subsidy www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbcn...

Keep them doggies rollin’

"Make landlords poor" is the only thing YIMBY has ever offered, and it works. www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/28/b...

Related rent trend updated with Q1 2025 data.

Getting ready for the recession, already consuming few durable goods as a coastal, carless, thrift-shopping resist lib with a non-federal public sector job.

Institutional renewal is a generational task. It is also necessarily adversarial. In order to inherit and improve institutions, us young people are forced to fight for reform. We are forced to articulate a new vision for a social order in the public square. Lest we succumb to sclerosis and entropy.

Don’t let where you sit determine where you stand

Our letter to Mayor @adenaishii.bsky.social and Berkeley City Council urging them to ensure the Middle Housing Ordinance is a success. Small lot construction is essential for tackling the housing crisis in Berkeley. eastbayforeveryone.org/wp-content/u...

It’s time to stress test the question. What will win in California— a new elite policy consensus and body of research, or the gravitational pull of CA’s political economy, rife with clientelism and policy capture?

We’re announcing new legislation (SB 63) to provide long-term stable funding to Bay Area transit systems, authorizing a multi-county revenue measure for 2026. If we do nothing, major systems (BART, Muni, AC Transit, Caltrain) will be forced into massive service cuts. We must not let that happen.🧵

Thinking about buying a house in Berkeley. Just gotta go buy some lotto tickets 😂

It’s always astonishing how people fail to see how reality serves as a check on misguided policy. The answer is to battle fiction with a more enticing, unifying fiction.

We’re going to have to start building tons of new assisted care facilities in California, ASAP.

A great Berkeley missing middle policy idea: refund the transfer tax for properties that get developed into missing middle projects. This will greatly reduce the land acquisition costs. The City already does this for 1/3 of the transfer tax for seismic retrofits.

I had a fantastic time presenting about bike advocacy in Berkeley to the Sonoma County Bike Coalition. There’s a lot of amazing safe streets momentum in Santa Rosa and Petaluma!!

I am very proud to have approved a 97-unit, mixed use project at 2555 Shattuck Ave. last night at the Berkeley Zoning Adjustments Board meeting. Thanks to strengthed state laws, the board has been entitling many projects over the past two years. Now, the challenge is to get shovels in the ground 🏡