A silver lining of the Iran war? youtu.be/eXNLaHsKMz8?...

I never thought I’d be interested enough in Hungarian election results to seek out information on election night, but I’m watching this live stream on YouTube right now: www.youtube.com/live/iYIZk9c...

The ICC-related bits of this presentation really hit home: youtu.be/dP1SoJeDE-I?...

How long until the curb ramps at the apex of sidewalk corners, leading those who use them into the middle of intersections get replaced by ones going in the direction of the sidewalk? In time for my grandkids to use them? Their kids? Their grandkids? (1/

Guess what I got in the mail today: Astroturf BS from billionaires trying to stop the billionaire wealth tax ballot prop with their own prop, misleadingly framed around protecting average people’s retirement savings.

UCLA Housing Voice’s Incentive series has been absolutely fantastic for far. Give this a listen.

Last weekend, using the LA County Assessor Roll data, I made this graph of the residential units currently existing in Pasadena by decade built and type of building (SFD, duplex, tri/quadruplex, apartment building 5+, and condo): www.datawrapper.de/_/TrStA/

I’ll repeat myself here: Municipalities don’t have to do a damn thing w/r/t SB 79, and it’s a huge waste of resources for them to pretend that they should.

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In order to visualize the pattern of citywide housing production within the boundary of the City of Pasadena, using the LA County Assessor Parcel Data roll data, I've created this bar graph showing the number of existing housing units built per decade : www.datawrapper.de/_/TrStA/

Regular reminder to non-fascist legislators and city council members: not changing single-family zoning is a page right out of the MAGA playbook. Specifically, page 511:

@holz-bau.bsky.social, the last couple of episodes of www.volts.wtf/podcast from @volts.wtf are worth a listen. I know it would be preferable to densify our existing cities, but seeing from the ground how difficult that is in California, I’ve long been excited about @californiaforever.bsky.social.

Where are the trees? Why are these buildings so short? Why is this road so goddamn wide? Where is the shade? Where are the people outside of metal boxes with wheels?

This is one of the most important subplots in the story of our long-lived housing crisis.

Periodic reminder to Democratic Party electeds: preserving the patterns of segregation represented by single-family-only zoning and local control over land use is a page straight out of the MAGA playbook. Specifically, page 511.

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Fire safety standards should be drafted by public servants who report to our elected representatives. Those public servants should conduct research and use cost-benefit analyses to evaluate proposed code provisions. Our codes should NOT be written by influence peddlers who pay to play.

My Facebook is old enough to drink and my eBay account can rent a car. You simply have not been Online like I have.

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The PSA must be made to have real teeth! It’s been around for almost half a century, but has remained a paper tiger. It’s not self-executing, so for its deadlines to mean anything, someone has to sue the cities, and developers don’t want to sue cities they will work in again.

An ad from the Steyer campaign where the only thing he mentions is stopping private equity from buying homes tells me he’s not at all serious about addressing housing affordability.

When normal people discover how America’s quasi-privatized building code is developed. Process was “unique”, did not analyze impact on end users, its costs, or constructability. “If I had done something like this during my career I’d be fired.” www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/h...

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This happened last year in California, rolled into a budget trailer bill that had lots of positive, pro-housing stuff in it. But the idea that we’ve prohibited local single-stair reforms, as well as other positive changes to the BC, for the better part of a decade, is utterly maddening.

freezing pathetically bad building codes won't fix the affordable housing problem

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The clear winner of today’s @cayimby.bsky.social gubernatorial forum was the YIMBY movement itself. That every major candidate showed up, cited a lack of supply as the primary driver of the housing crisis, & offered actual policy solutions is a true testament of how strong the movement has become.

California housing legislation idea: For the purpose of ensuring compliance with PSA deadlines, require municipalities to post on their websites A) date of application submission for housing project and deadline for determination of completeness (30 days after submission)

Watching @cayimby.bsky.social’s forum with gubernatorial candidates right now: www.youtube.com/live/1t-nivz...

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At some point the “one size fits all” cliché becomes an argument against policymaking, period. If every single instance of a social problem is irreducibly unique and special, what’s the point of trying to address it in aggregate?

There’s no easier program to kill. It is wildly unpopular with people in the industry, politicians at the state, our mayor and everyone in general public. It makes you wonder why its corpse is still seated at a desk in the city considering the state ordered it to be deleted 2 years ago. Ridiculous

Reminder for voters in Texas: Don Huffines, running for state Comptroller, owns the ranch in New Mexico formerly owned by Jeffrey Epstein.

Fantastic stuff here from Pritzker. If you're a Democratic governor, mayor, or city council member in a high COL blue state right now and you aren't laser focused on increasing the infill housing supply, either get your shit together or resign and let someone who will do the job.

A business that doesn’t knuckle under to lawless meddling is a business that likely has the integrity to do right by its customers in other unseen ways. The $1.50 hot dog is just a different manifestation of this. fortune.com/2026/02/13/c...

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Design review is the absolute dumbest program any city can have and it’s also the easiest thing to get rid of to speed up housing production

By a 41-7 vote, the Washington Senate just directed the state's building code council to adopt updated regulations for elevators in buildings with up to six stories or 24 units, "minimally sized to meet federal accessibility requirements." The final version: lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/202...

So there is an ad hoc metro board meeting on the 23rd at 1pm on governance reform. I'll be commenting on why a board made up of politicians for whom this is an incidental duty is problematic, and advocate for the appointment of apolitical, qualified planning experts.