*halting mid-strum, upon a heavenly cloud* did my ex’s cat make it here?

new acquisition

the much harder version

Counterpoint is at least two related but independent musical lines playing against each other simultaneously, like being mad about housing while being mad about everything else

They all voted for Rubio though, each & every one

Nithya for mayor

In a what kind of city now? Is she joking

This is offensive in ways I cannot even begin to describe

low rent maisonettes at the edge of a park for all

take a deep breath & enjoy some social housing

The single-stair and other building code reforms happening across North America have been incredible, but we clearly need more fundamental changes to the code update process. We'll be showing why, and how, over these next several episodes. www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/09/10/9...

538 dead last year in Los Angeles, a choice your elected officials have made

a legal exemption for cities whose names rhyme with Ranta Rarbara

Oh my god???

how do you mute the word abundance

This - for malls & esp big boxes - is the way forward for mass social housing here. You can even keep the retail for the tax revenue!

I love incisive architectural analysis

did a patching compound write this article

where is Aldo Rossi, we need you

deeply irritating to know a lot more about classical architecture than these bowtied yahoos & yet

okay I'm a NIMBY now

For some people it’s very important that we build less affordable housing lest it offend the delicate sensibilities of the homeowner class

well at least they weren’t duplexes, thank god our bravest housing soldiers saved us from that

Why is the rent so damn high in LA? Simple economics: the demand for housing is extremely high and our housing supply is extremely low.

recent acquisition

If you live in California and want SB 79 to pass... CALL YOUR ASSEMBLY MEMBER TODAY comment with your zip code and I'll reply with their office's phone number

THE LAND USE PATTERNS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARE THE PROBLEM, RICK!

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LA City Council … doing something good? What is this feeling

that's right

The City of LA, embarrassingly, voted yesterday to oppose #SB79 (legalizing housing near transit). Watch this incredible rebuttal from @cd4losangeles.bsky.social, where she says that the city isn't acting in good faith to address the housing crisis, & that state intervention has been necessary.

wait did I really never post this one

lol

omg this is absolutely savage lmao

big Berlioz mood

Cruising. Rather a lost art nowadays—but in its post-Stonewall-pre digital 90s heyday, the chance encounters of cruising was one of the charms that drew me & millions of others to NYC & SF. The pre-AIDS Christopher St. sidewalks of the late 70s-early 80s were packed with herds of hot, horny men. 😈

The uniquely North American idea that single family areas are sacrosanct was spread by for reasons that are a mix of good intentions, profit, neurosis, and rank racism. You can't address housing issues in this country without deconstructing the primacy of the SFH.

“If you DON’T change the physical character of your community, you WILL change the demographic and economic character of your community.” - William Fulton at the Casita Coalition’s Build The Middle National Housing Convening

Unfortunately I really like John Wayne

the Marshall Plan but it’s just airdropping Proust across the country

N: Stockholm E: Vienna S: CDMX W: Princeville (Wait apparently Stockholm is further east than Vienna??)

I’m always saying

I am uninspired by amoral centrist grifters insisting the far right belongs in the coalition

I usually drive to my job 1.5 miles away because it’s a very unpleasant walk & despite being literally along a transit route it takes an eighth the time, an LA tragedy

we should start demolishing above market rate homes immediately to bring down the average rent

I am going to faint

if you’re a homeowner making tens of thousands annually on the supply crisis, homelessness is mostly an aesthetic problem

One last point: Staff at places like SAJE and the Western Center really need to reflect on what it means that they keep ending up in coalition with groups like the realtors and wealthy, exclusionary suburbs.