Santa Monica is beefing up traffic enforcement, we love to see it

“Moments of genuine crisis require leaders willing to make tough choices. Cities that build housing do so because they declare it a top priority and align their institutions accordingly. Cities that hedge and delay quietly sabotage themselves” @jessezwick.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Cracking The Code: Reclaiming Building Standards for Public Interest may be the first housing paper to cite my book! by @jessezwick.bsky.social www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/cra...

really enjoyed this discussion hitting on the 'international' code council (🫠) that touches on how US is outlier in denser buildings costing more per SF than detached houses

This was a fun one! Check out our episode with @jessezwick.bsky.social about the organization responsible for US building codes, the 'International' Code Council. This conversation will leave you fired up to *entirely* rethink our approach to building standards. www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/10/08/9...

Nestled up against the steps of City Hall in LA is a large placard with missing posters for the recently disappeared in the city.

What timing! @volts.wtf interviews @scottwiener.bsky.social & @buffywicks.bsky.social on CEQA reform. This is a must-listen for anyone who considers themselves an enviro or a progressive. Dave is as green & progressive as they come and he asks all the right questions. (link in next post)

ICE raids at graduation, in church, and at work - they’re targeting the best among us to more perfectly terrorize the rest of us. These people are not criminals. They’re graduating kids. Nothing is sacred to the people terrorizing these children - they believe in no god but hate, no work but hatred.

Rojas' ability to GIDP in front of Ohtani with multiple men on needs to be studied. Literally take three strikes or squeeze or anything else, man.

A modest proposal

Japanese phenom pitcher Roki Sasaki announces he signed with the Dodgers. Who knows how this will turn out but Sasaki’s upside is best pitcher in the world.

Here's the executive order Newsom talks about. This seems to make it even easier to build in areas that keep getting destroyed by climate disasters and doesn't address the serious reckoning that LA will need to have about density, affordability, and managed retreat www.gov.ca.gov/2025/01/12/g...

YIMBY policies are good because they lower rents, reduce emissions, and decrease inequality. but there’s another reason that makes pro-housing policies even more urgent: if we don’t build ASAP, the Blue Wall will not be enough for Dems to win the presidency open.substack.com/pub/betterci...

“As pickups transitioned from workhorses to lifestyle vehicles, their design shifted accordingly: Cabs expanded for more passengers, while beds shrank. The first generation of F-150s was 36% cab & 64% bed by length. By 2021, the ratio flipped, with 63% cab & 37% bed.” www.axios.com/2023/01/23/p...

[any policy issue] okay but you understand. this is about the price of housing

Days since NIMBYs compared housing streamlining to genocide: 0

America's housing stock is the oldest it's ever been and just keeps getting older. We don't have enough homes in this country and too much of what we have is dated and decaying.

Let’s take a look at the highest-realistic-capacity sites in LA’s draft list of rezoned Housing Element sites. I understand the city is working on an updated list, but as it stands, things are not looking great...

New pro-housing council wasting no time getting to work

So inspiring to hear that Austin area landlords are much less greedy than landlords elsewhere in the country.

Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by normal driving, account for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally. Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially. theconversation.com/car-tyres-sh...

So many thoughtfully worded takes on the need for supply-side progressivism. So few blue state pols truly rising to the challenge. But there’s still a window to fix this. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/o...