A birdie on my shoulder told me about this great shop on Etsy that sells T-shirts you might like. If this color isn’t to your liking, they’re available in many different colors.

FBI says criminals are posing as masked ICE agents. Who except for everyone could have predicted this?

@uclalewiscenter.bsky.social is killing it with their Incentives series. This latest episode is really worth a listen: www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/11/05/1...

The average impact fee on a multifamily unit in California is $21,703, nearly triple the national average of $8,034. cayimby.org/reports/the-...

Never seen this train so crowded.

How do Halloween streets emerge without a Halloween Street Zoning Overlay to tell people what to do?

2 questions for @cselmendorf.bsky.social: 1) What’s you opinion on whether DBL be combined with the SHRA? Holland and Knight note that it’s unclear. It’s not prohibited by the text of the law, but then again, it’s not explicitly noted they can be combined in the law, as it is for so many others.

The “residential” building code exists in the first place for very bad reasons. Don’t ever forget that. Lawrence Veiller, addressing the NAHB in 1913:

'instead of destroying poverty, it was considered cheaper and more efficient to destroy the poor' is a line that has stuck with me for years. from ayass's 'vagrants and beggars in hitler's reich' kobra.uni-kassel.de/server/api/c...

To borrow from Wittgenstein, trying to use all these zoning classifications to achieve good urban form is like trying to repair a spiderweb with your fingers.

If you haven’t returned your ballot yet with a “yes” on Prop 50, do it now! I never thought I’d say this, as I hate the idea of Gerrymandering so much, and was proud to vote for California’s independent redistricting commission 17 years ago, but as long as it’s temporary, crack and pack that shit!

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other affordability hack: no on site parking i'll keep saying it til i'm blue in the face the way to address the affordability crisis and get more housing diversity - with better and more family sized homes - requires single stair & elevator reform. who's going to lead? bsky.app/profile/holz...

Watching “My Dinner with André” right now. I don’t know how I’ve never seen it before, having been a theater major in college in the northeast and so on.

Calling taxes on building housing “inclusionary” is straight-up Orwellian Double-Speak. The effects are demonstrable enhancement of exclusion, by increasing costs for everyone, especially those least able to pay for it. Always have been, always will be. This has been realized for at least 50 years.

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@stephenjacobsmith.com, I wonder if you’ve read this book from 1982. Chapter 3 might be especially interesting to you: archive.org/details/reso...

If you haven’t returned your ballot yet, do so now! I never thought I would say this, as I can’t stand the idea of Gerrymandering, but as long as it’s temporary, crack and pack that shit!

Legislators, judges, city councilors, et al: please read this in full. It was written in 1981, and if all the dollar amounts were adjusted for inflation and a few other changes, it reads like it could have been written yesterday. openyls.law.yale.edu/server/api/c...

@cselmendorf.bsky.social, are you familiar with this paper from 1981? Makes me feel like my time machine must be broken. openyls.law.yale.edu/server/api/c...

Needed some good news

Working in the environmental field but opposing a bus rapid transit project and new apartments in your neighborhood should frankly get you blacklisted until the end of time

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The City of LA is actively working against both the interests and the explicit will of its citizens here, not to mention its own plan. HLA was only necessary because they were ignoring that plan in the first place. Who’s in charge here?

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call me an overly sentimental patriotic American but I personally do not enjoy seeing the president literally destroy the White House and drop shit on our greatest cities

Remember when they hounded Hillary for years over insufficient email security protocols?

Got my @samalcorn.bsky.social “This City is not a military training ground” tee & now I’m all ready for Saturday’s #NoKingsDay rally

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Some of the most insane up-is-down, 2+2=5 nonsense yet. Joe Biden took office on *January 20, 2021*. That is 14 days after *January 6, 2021*. Reminder: This man has the nuclear codes.

I’m overhearing a celebration in the street. Must be about SB 79 being signed. At least it is for me.

Evan Sora 2-generated Nixon can't believe the s*** that Republicans are letting Trump get away with

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Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit! Our statement: cayimby.org/news-events/...

It seems clear that the Trump regime is modeled on a pro-wrestling outfit, complete with speeches from Hulk Hogan at the RNC and Linda McMahon in the Cabinet. But don't they need some baby-face characters? How do you get by with entirely heels?

"Giving L.A. a veto over state policy would doom California to more of the same — rising costs, worsening displacement and endless obstruction." calmatters.org/commentary/2...

Lmao who are the special interests pushing single-stair reform? Small scale multifamily infill developers who don't exist yet?

Tickled to hear @shanedphillips.bsky.social quote Lawrence Veiller on the rationale behind the origin of the “residential” building code. We need more local electeds like Jesse Zwick.

@governor.ca.gov, are you signing SB 79 today? If you want to let the clock run out until the buzzer rings, that’s fine too. Just don’t veto it.

This is what shows up on the HUD website now, even when you type the exact URL of a specific document you’re looking for, and that used to be there:

These types of dense, walkable apartments are illegal near much of California's mass transit infrastructure. Tell Governor Newsom to sign SB79

Aren’t the real estate agents supposed to want more real estate? Like isn’t selling it how they make money?