This is a fantastic example of everything wrong with the "progressive" wing of the San Francisco political establishment. You cannot claim to care about the affordability crisis while espousing pro-car, anti-upzoning policy positions and messaging. Sorry!

new California solar *and* wind records just dropped. new solar records starting in May is typical, but a *huge* jump in wind, nearly 2GW over the previous batch of records on 2022. new farm must be coming on line — must be SunZia in New Mexico www.eenews.net/articles/lar...

Positives of Bluesky: no Nazis Negatives of Bluesky: 2017 housing discourse

We absolutely love to see it!

Another fat L for my assemblymember, Diane Papan, who was trying her damndest to kill the ebike industry. Better luck next time!

Someone who I know lives off a trust fund just shared a post from trust fund baby, Dean Preston, calling SF Mayor Lurie a trust fund baby.

It sucks that running budget surpluses is basically illegal in California. It would be great if we could just save this AI windfall money for the inevitable recession instead of more or less being required to spend it.

The latest in Unintentionally Based Anti-Housing Propaganda

If I were running for office as a Democrat and Christopher Rufo publicly called me "thoughtful and reasonable" I would immediately drop out and rethink every position I had ever taken

Your rent seekers are evil parasites. *My* rent seekers, on the other hand

Lmao this is this endorsement rocks. Why vote Huang? She did some organizing for a freaking study bill. Why oppose Raman? She thinks rich west side homeowners should have to live near apartments. Odd to give a shout out to Mamdani when he too has adopted YIMBY priorities!

In the world of progressive politics, be a Mamdani (the housing crisis is the result of regulatory barriers on homebuilding), not a Jayapal (developers bad!)

To give you a sense of the audience at the Ezra Klein California housing forum: It hasn't even started yet and commenters in the livestream already are calling for a Land Value Tax.

With Democrats like this, who needs Republicans?

Maybe because I'm in the Bay almost all of my friends live in apartments (myself included). So learning this data point caused me to squint at the screen and re-read the graph slowly.

15 minutes into tonight's California gubernatorial debate: it's clear Becerra is totally unprepared to handle the state's two biggest challenges. Freezing insurance rates will destroy the market. Downpayment assistance (subsidizing demand) will never solve the housing crisis.

By a vote of 3-2, 555 Kelly is done!!!

Evening, folks! It’s taken 4 years and more than a dozen meetings to get here, but 555 Kelly, the 40 unit affordable housing project for senior farmworkers in Half Moon Bay, should finally move forward tonight. 🧵

Matt Mahan is pro Prop 13. Instant DQ.

This passed today :) Up to eight stories, actually.

Geography departments are funny because it's like half people who do really cool, cutting edge remote sensing and GIS work (which bring in all the grants) and then half people doing the absolute worst social science work you've ever encountered.

Hospital NIMBYism is just an extra level of crazy to me

Currently on Caltrain heading from the South Bay toward SF, and the train is packed. That would’ve been unthinkable a couple years ago pre-electrification, especially on a Saturday night when headways were once per hour or longer. Frequency matters!

The CBIA (sprawl builders) and realtors in California saying that there's no future for them in California if Tom Steyer gets elected is precisely why I'll be voting for him

Evening, folks! Groundhog Day continues, and I am once again in Half Moon Bay for a City Council discussion of 555 Kelly, a 40 unit 100% affordable housing project for senior farmworkers. Maybe tonight will be the meeting where they finally move forward! 🙃🤞🏻

I will be doing a live thread tonight on what I believe will be the 7th meeting I've attended since 2024 on 555 Kelly, the 40 unit affordable housing project for senior farmworkers in Half Moon Bay. Very normal and well functioning system we have here!

How did a little web series where a comedian interviews celebrities on the subway turn into a magnet for the worst kind of slopulism

Tom Steyer on Prop 13 reform tonight: "On Day 1 I'll call for a special election to close a corporate tax loophole. The realtors are mad at me, they're fighting me, but that's the only way we drive down housing costs for the people of California." Nothing but respect for MY candidate!

Affluent suburban homeowners: NIMBY is a slur. Rural residents against data centers: Keep that the hell out of my backyard

Went to a PlanCom meeting tonight on a new 21 (!) story senior housing project in Redwood City, which would be one of the tallest buildings in the area. The bad: it took ~3.5 hours. The good: virtually every public comment was supportive, and state housing laws mean the city can't deny it anyway!

Not looking good for single stair reform in California. YIMBY groups are checked out and firefighters are highly engaged.

For everyone that thinks the Mayor of San Jose, Matt Mahan, would be a YIMBY governor, this is from his official mayor website bragging about opposing the elimination of single family zoning. www.sjmayormatt.com/meet-matt

I rarely use this site for local advocacy anymore, but if you’re in San Mateo, the city council is currently holding a hearing on the Horizons sobering/detox center. NIMBYs are rabid about this, so if you think people deserve a safe place to heal, speak up. sanmateo.primegov.com/Portal/Meeti...

It's pretty dispiriting that the California legislature won't even advance narrow coastal act exemptions for multimodal transit (bike lanes) and infill housing in cities with high quality transit access. What the hell are we doing here, guys?

This is me erasure (we should defund caltrans)

some people want to believe homelessness is about the moral failing of homeless people some people want to believe that it's about the moral failing of capitalism but the reason we see the *specific problem* of homelessness, people not having a home, really is mostly about housing!

Mahan supporters are finally starting to get it

A modern-day warrior Mean, mean stride Today's Tom Steyer Mean, mean pride

This is so much worse than even the worst rumors that were out there. His campaign is over. Tom Steyer, congratulations on becoming the next Governor of California.

Truly wild research on the change in bike mode share in NYC, London, Paris and Berlin. Between 2000 and 2023, Paris went from 1 out of every 100 trips being on a bike to *one out of 9!* Many people, including credible researchers, would have told you that that *could not* happen.

California's initiative system stays losing

ICE shot a man today in California. "Lyons said as ICE officers approached the car, "the wanted gang member weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run an officer over.' The ICE agents fired at Mendoza Hernandez..." Every time ICE has made this claim, it's been a lie.

Zoning has always been very much about Gender, but opponents to skyscrapers saying that tall buildings threaten the masculinity of their city is a new one 😂🫠 The city in question here is San Francisco

Went on a bike pilgrimage to the most beautiful Taco Bell in the world, which only exists because its construction predates the California Coastal Commission.

The most frustrating part of working in the environmental movement is that every time I turn around some other org has found a new way to publicly beclown themselves on housing issues

love this article about mn rep. kaela berg and the rise of working-class congressional candidates coming from the labor movement

The Marina Is For Everybody is an incredible sign in its own right, but especially so when deployed in opposition to a new housing project in a census tract where the median household income is ~$250k/yr, and average home values are $2,000,000+

People are going to vote for Democrats because they hate Trump, but once Trump is gone people are going to remember that they don't like the Democrats either

Good stuff in the replies. I've said it before, but leftism without theory is just reactionary, and it turns out there is no theoretical basis for being against urban apartments, but plenty for the counter.