Governor Newsom has a historic opportunity to fix the policy roots of California's housing crisis. Sign SB 79! www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

If you have a Disney+ or Hulu subscription and you haven’t cancelled it yet, please do so as soon as you can. We cannot allow our government to brazenly violate the 1st Amendment, and Disney must be made to feel the financial repercussions of bending the knee to Trump and Carr.

There should be a state law mandating that there be shaded and safe sidewalks associated with both sides of every road. Not just new roads or triggered by alteration of existing roads, but that would be retroactive and proactively enforced.

Good intro to US pedestrian road infrastructure: youtu.be/lShDhGn5e5s?...

Published in 1981: openyls.law.yale.edu/server/api/c... That paper formed a chapter in this book, published the next year (1982): archive.org/details/reso...

I wrote my own: Dear Governor Newsom, Every day, when I take the train to work, which cost billions of taxpayer dollars, I pass by station after station surrounded by single-family houses and surface parking lots. This is embarrassing for the state. 1/5

On this week's Rational Security anniversary edition, @sranderson.bsky.social was joined by co-hosts emeritus @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @shaneharris.bsky.social, @alanrozenshtein.com & @qjurecic.bsky.social to cover topics from Russia drones in Romania to non-enforcement of the TikTok ban.

Put ED1 back in full force Mayor

Everyone: write a letter to @governor.ca.gov urging him to sign SB 79! We’ve been waiting for this for SEVEN YEARS. Not a day goes by when I don’t imagine what better shape this state (and nation) would be in if 827 had survived. Anti-housing forces (like Karen Bass) are asking him to veto.

Horowitz says more people are dying from homelessness in the United States than from residential fires. We have to provide homes and make sure they are safe from fire risk.

Fire officials are sometimes making claims that people will die if we pass single stair. "A lot of reason to believe the opposite is true," says Horowitz.

Horowitz: We need to give fire safety folks the benefit of the doubt. There haven't been a lot of data to work with. That will take time to defuse. But we have to use data and look at outcomes. This can't be something where intuition is guiding fire safety.

Raised crosswalks solve two problems with one intervention: 1) accessibility for people on sidewalks without curb ramps and 2) traffic calming, resulting in fewer injuries and deaths

As institution after institution caves in to him, he’s emboldened to escalate — now seeking to bankrupt the NY Times for not endorsing him or giving him favorable coverage. Bending the knee to an authoritarian doesn’t make him stop. It makes him more aggressive. We must fight back. No more caving.

We need raised crosswalks at every high-injury intersection.

Walked into #YIMBYTown a few minutes late this morning was immediately greeted by the entire 600+ person crowd booing at Daryl Fairweather’s mention of Prop 13. These are definitely my people.

I’ve been thinking a lot about multi-member legislative districts and proportional representation since I was in college a quarter century ago, and it occurs to me that if we must have bicameral state legislatures (we don’t; see Nebraska),

Terner Center released a new report today entitled “The Financial Impacts of Construction Defect Liability on Housing Development in California.” It finds condo developers pay 3-4x for CGL insurance policies for similarly designed & built rental projects. ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/the-fin...

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SB 79, our bill to legalize townhomes and midrise apartments near the highest-quality transit, is up for its final vote in the Senate TODAY. Calling your state Senator and asking them to support the bill will make a real difference; and it only takes a minute with our tool. Let's get this done!

California state Senate is back in session. They’ve skipped forward in the list to item #103, which is part of unfinished business, but should come back to the file order. Concurrence on SB 79 Assembly amendments is file item #89. Call your state Senator, and get everyone you know to do the same.

Imagine what a better place we’d be in by now as a state and as a nation if SB 827, and then SB 50, hadn’t been killed almost a decade ago. Call your state senator! It only takes a minute of your day, and would be meaningful for everyone. It makes a difference. Yes on SB 79!

The most impactful housing bill in California history is on the 1 yard line. It has passed the assembly and the senate vote is TODAY! Right now is your last chance to call your state senator and tell them to support building more housing near transit! cayimby.org/call-sb-79/

State Senate floor session starts in a little under two hours from now. If you haven’t called your State Senator urging an “aye” vote on concurrence for SB 79, do so now!

Published in 1982: _Resolving the Housing Crisis_ archive.org/details/reso...

It’s not just California. Allowing more housing here has effects beyond state borders.

LADOT is testing concrete “Toronto barriers” in lieu of plastic bollards along 3rd Street between Main & Spring in DTLA.This could lead to concrete barriers for all protected bike lanes in the city. Let them know you support concrete bike lane barriers over plastic! mailchi.mp/streetsforal...

The insistence the new construction be “affordable” has been recognized as a specious NIMBY strategy for as long as I have been on this planet. From 1981: openyls.law.yale.edu/server/api/c...

California State Assembly floor session starts in 40 minutes. Call your assemblymember, and urge their affirmative vote on SB 79! findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov

If you haven’t called your assemblymember’s office to urge their “yes” vote on SB 79, do so in the morning. If you haven’t called your state senator’s office to the same end, do that too, as they’ll have to vote to concur in the Assembly amendments. Call everyone you know and get them to do likewise

Periodic reminder that government (federal, but you could apply it to states) protection of “local control” with regard to single-family-only zoning is explicitly called for in Project 2025. See page 511:

New paper: "Our results indicate that correcting stereotypes about affordable housing and misperceptions about its effects increase support for affordable housing." You can reduce NIMBYism with good information! Posting matters! Never stop posting!

The anti-YIMBY left has a new ally: “Census data reveals 15 million more housing units than households, contradicting activist claims of supply crisis” www.foxnews.com/opinion/dei-...

Today’s the day, call!!

Please listen and share this with everyone you know: @shanedphillips.bsky.social and @elpaavo.bsky.social interview @holz-bau.bsky.social on the latest episode of UCLA Housing Voice! Next episode will feature @stephenjacobsmith.com! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

If your downtown still has many wide and fast one-way streets, then your priority is to move cars as fast as possible thru a weak downtown. It’s NOT to create a vibrant downtown, help downtown retailers, keep people safe, support walkability and accessibility, reduce pollution, etc. #TrafficSewers

Imagine what a better place we’d be in by now as a state , and as a nation if SB 827, and then SB 50 hadn’t been killed almost a decade ago. Call your state assemblymember! It only takes a minute of your day, and would be meaningful for everyone. It makes a difference. Yes on SB 79!

Item 119 today, coming up! If you haven’t called your assemblymember, do so now! Urge a “yes” vote on SB 79!

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

YIMBY podcast morning: started out with the latest episode of “Infill,” the YIMBY Action podcast with guest Daryl Fairweather, and then Kevin Klinkenberg’s “Messy City” features as a guest none other than @mnolangray.bsky.social this week!

The A Line goes to Pomona right now! The Pomona station wasn’t scheduled to open for another 10 days!

We've known about how "inclusionary zoning" disincentivizes housing production for the 45 years I've been on this earth: openyls.law.yale.edu/server/api/c...

SB 79: is today the day? I keep tuning into the Assembly livestream each day, and it’s always on the agenda, but never comes up, so I hope it will the next day. Is today that lucky day? Tomorrow? Wednesday?

won't hear the game, then

The reason I won't for Newsom to be the nominee is because he will not go against the most parochial interest groups and piddly small-time elected officials on housing--the only issue of real consequence in California politics right now. If you can't do that, you're gonna fold against Republicans.