An under-appreciated aspect of why you should hate the car industry is that, decades before crypto and online gambling even existed, they built a business model that targets people with no impulse control nor future preference and ruins them financially.

I wonder why small landlords are giving up the business and are selling to corporations? “The biggest change in ownership was the large organizations’ share of two- to four-unit buildings in the city, which increased by 29% over the six years studied.“ LA city council is like

The new protected bike lanes in Griffith Park are coming a long nicely. I had two bad experiences with this kiddos here. I’m looking forward to a safer Griffith Park for all!

Would you care for another serving of Slopulism, sir? No, please. I'm full!

Avid cyclist can't believe your kid biking to school needs bike lanes, "they probably can't even climb Tourmalet."

The lesson to be learned from people like Ford or Elon is listen to the bike and transit folks. They see the weirdo fascists first.

Traci Park is so horrible on so many levels.

So manufactured homes aren't covered in the ban on BTR home bans. Interesting take by Alex Armlovich that this could shift PE to factory build single family homes.

I would just like my kids to safely be able to bike to school. As a kid I biked to school, I biked everywhere. It was simple. The only thing keeping us from that is safe streets.

Glendale candidate for city council believes that BRT and SB79 apartments are an “existential threat” to his city. And of course he made his cash in “value add” real estate. This version of Republican NIMBYs are segregationist above all else, even capitalism.

The left/right Slopulism coalition

“Multifamily housing is for young renters and the poor while single family homes are for established adults with children” is a really pernicious folk theory about how housing markets should work that I think is foundational to so much bad housing policy at all levels of government.

Cities often block affordable housing through zoning laws. But new research shows these rules don’t just affect their residents: they appear to raise costs in nearby neighborhoods too. evictionlab.org/how-exclusio...

🙃 "Also jettisoned was a House provision that would have provided guidance for municipalities looking to update their zoning codes."

One of the similarities of Trumpism and Nimbyism is that you have otherwise rational people twisting themselves into knots of stupidity to defend the most ridiculous positions. How could anyone argue that driving to Dodger stadium is convenient?

🎶Oops we did it again 🎶

Matt Mahan has single stair and smaller elevators on his campaign website. @stephenjacobsmith.com Is this your doing directly or just indirectly. Either way, nice work!

If you need some reassurance that good things can unfold in the housing world, you need look no further than what the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw is doing with this project. One of the only large net-zero communities in the world. 60% public green space. Huge set aside for affordable units. senakw.com

I love Ktown, I like the premise of this piece that’s it’s the real downtown, but it’s got some unfortunate takes on housing. It blames building transit for raising prices and cast aspersions at “luxury units”. thelalocal.org/neighborhood...

So much of motonormativity is just abuser talk. "Why did you ride your bike where I could hit you?"

One of my neighborhood council members is running for State Senate on the most left nimby platform that I would’ve hoped Mamdanism would’ve killed by now, just straight up vacancy truther theory of housing. LA county has 3.7 million units, 200k vacancies is barely 5%.

It’s really infuriating to see Bass spiking the ball on the D line opening as this is where she is working hardest to block SB79. She should feel some shame about being anti transit and pro segregation, but I don’t think she has any. Let’s give her some time in retirement to reflect on it.

If you want to build more homes in LA, Nithya is your candidate.

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TIL!!

I bike commuted as a protest against the war in Iraq, and I guess I’m doing it again. I’ve been having these huge vibes flashbacks to pre Iraq with Trump, especially about Tariffs, but now we just get a 1:1 comparison…

Pretty good, pretty pretty good…

This is a fun read.

So in order to dilute the power of city council people in LA by adding 8 more districts, we need the current council to vote to support sending it to a ballot measure to take away some of their power. This seems a tad problematic.

Banana Bro Republic shit

Great news, what’s next to get this done?

SB 908 adds clarifying language and technical guidance to SB 79 (2025), California’s landmark transit-oriented housing law. cayimby.org/legislation/...

What is happening!? I’m sorry Mr. Mayor, I was not familiar with your game. Meanwhile, Bass is still fighting SB79. 😔

It’s amazing how much trains lines opening make me feel good about my city. We’ve got a few good years of this coming up.

I asked this candidate earlier about her housing policy and I see it’s now up. I think it’s exactly what I expected. It’s a wild ride. I, personally, see a lot of red flags here and wouldn’t vote for this.

Thanks Huntington Beach for cementing the legality of our housing laws by getting rejected by SCOTUS. Now, STFU and build some apartments.

Vacancy chains are great, but it's also true that the typical new rental unit is middle class housing; they rent to someone in the ~60th percentile of their household-sizes's income distribution. New *owner occupied* housing is luxury housing.

I don’t think skepticism is the word I would use here.

That’s some quality Calvin’s Dad vibes

The landlords are cutting rents and credit standards and it’s all because they are tearing down single family homes and replacing them with apartments.

I like this energy from Gavin. Now let’s see some action.

What’s a NIMBY real estate lobby? Is that just homeowners?

The new pump track in Garvanza/Highland Park (LA’s first!) adjacent is great. I’m not even sure if it’s officially open, the drinking fountains don’t even work yet, but it’s a huge hit. There’s such a big demand for safe places to big and skate.

This reoccurring stupid point about trickle down economics drives me nuts. Trickle down is about cutting taxes to the rich. When you upzone and the land is worth more, you are collecting more taxes. It’s trickle up!

In this house we believe in transit oriented Minecraft

The other left candidate for LA mayor, besides Nithya, is digging her heels into left NIMBYism arguing that reforming measure ULA is a right wing conspiracy and not something our most progressive councilwoman is fighting for. She’s watching what Mamdani is doing & sticking her fingers in her ears. 🙉

When my kids ask where all the Halloween candy went…

MAGA is a degrowth agenda.

Kids used to play and walk around in the street. The ability to be outside in their city was largely *taken* from them

These subhuman freaks are utterly unable to handle dissent and activism. Keep doing it.