This woman killed an entire family — mom, dad, and 2 kids. She will get no jail time, and will not lose her license. When you're a driver, you can kill with total impunity. www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...

Good news, you can take the money you aren't saving on gas to pay for your child's asthma

Still gobsmacked by this Sacramento Planning Commission meeting. 300 unit project. Tons of public support. Commissioners said state law required them to approve, but that they’d support it regardless. All agreed they’d prefer less parking. 10-0 vote to support. Done in 2 hours. Magical.

Maybe I should move to Sacramento 🤔

Jennifer convinced me to tune in to this Sacramento Planning Commission meeting, and like half a dozen speakers said the insane opposition flier about this housing project is what convinced them to come support it. Oops!

I am having a real @cafedujord.bsky.social evening. When I get alarmist mail opposing a good housing project, I will show up to support it.

"Since 1960, there have been several dozen attempts to create new town communities, most of which have failed to attract more than a few thousand residents." So let's try again rather than improve on existing communities. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/b...

Happy Tuesday, folks! I’m currently in the silicon valley city of Sunnyvale, where the council is considering options for a 100% affordable housing project on city owned land. Lots of people in the audience, and the grumbling has already begun. 🧵 starts here!

was shocked to see Bad Bunny turned to the camera and said this is my book recommendation on California’s power grid

I’m increasingly of the view that NYC’s campaign finance reform (small donor matching) was key to Mamdani’s victory. Yet popularists and many Dem elites call small donors “extreme” and prefer the large donor dominance that wouldn’t led to Cuomo.

A pragmatic pro-housing leftist candidate running for mayor of the biggest city on the west coast against one the most vociferous NIMBY elected officials in the state? Be still my heart! www.latimes.com/california/s...

The big difference between YIMBYs and others on the left is that when we see a great city, we don’t think “keep people out.” We think “build enough so everyone who wants to live here can.” The scarcity mindset sucks!

There are a lot of peer-reviewed journals that publish research on the basic economics of housing supply and affordability, so if somebody is putting out white papers rather than peer-reviewed research, it’s probably because it’s low-quality work www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/r...

A big part of the reason we need to massively expand transit systems (in terms of geography, capacity, and frequency) is that there are just a ton of people who should not be allowed to drive

We are actually a very wealthy country overall, but our land-use policies and patterns make us feel like we're poor. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Not to mention the fact that, like, we're still perpetuating this. We still allow the construction of new homes in areas where the only insurance you're going to be able to get is the FAIR plan. Seems bad!

Given that there are multiple proposals to get the California public on the hook to insure the uninsurable: I feel there is a strong necessity for a grasstops advocacy organization that speaks out against this insanity and has no ties to industry associations. Much like the YIMBY movement.

For folks who don't want to read the million skeets in this thread, the bike lanes are safe (for now) while the city contemplates a new alternative: an extremely expensive $10,000,000 project to create a one way street that would include parking and bike lanes.

Happy Monday, folks! I’m at San Mateo City Hall tonight, where the council is set to consider spending several million dollars to rip out bike lanes installed in 2022 in favor of more parking spots for cars. Yes, really. 🧵

Ever seen Fiddler On The Roof? That, basically.

The leader of this organization was at the Planning and Conservation League's annual conference this weekend and make some absurd assertions about the RHNA numbers being too high. Environmentalists need to stop letting these people in our spaces.

San Diego installed bike lanes on a busy commercial street in North Park in 2021. Ridership jumped 67% the next year. Now, 4 years later, bike and scooter trips on 30th Street have hit another record high. Foot traffic and business activity is also booming. www.kpbs.org/news/quality...

There is exactly *one* big city mayor in the Bay Area who supported SB79, the holy grail of YIMBY housing reforms. It was Barbara Lee. No other big city mayor in the Bay Area chose to do so. Do with that information what you will.

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

You do have to hand it to Newsom here, this is an exceptional burn

*annoying urbanist making everything about zoning* corner bars by right

What kills kids in America: 1. cars 2. guns Guess what the GOP has worked relentlessly to support for half a century now?

California billionaires are spending tens of millions of dollars on ballot initiatives to gut CEQA for sprawl projects (mind you we did major infill housing reforms last year!) and to subsidize demand by creating a state backed loan program. I hate it here! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

I love Larry Krasner so damn much. "We're going to hunt the Nazis down and prosecute every last one of them to the fullest extent of the law" is exactly the mindset we need from every Democratic elected official in the country right now.

The state of the environmental movement in California is...bleak

A new poll from California EnviroVoters, one of the main CEQA defenders, includes this facially absurd and bad-faith representation of our work to increase affordable housing in California, but even despite that it suggests 31 percent of California is read for a complete and total “let it rip” law

as democrats, if we want to get immigration numbers back up to a reasonable level, we're going to have to do more than just go back to "the way things were." we're going to have to provide a real, reliable, fast pathway to CITIZENSHIP.

Decades of restrictive housing policies by liberal cities and states are finally coming back to bite us in a major way. If we can't create the conditions for a massive blue state housing construction boom as soon as possible, we're cooked.

getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys

No rest until Stephen Miller is on trial in The Hague

That’s right Bill Kristol

The world may be burning down around us, but thankfully San Mateo homeowners are laser focused on the real issue of our time: getting the city to rip out bike lanes in favor of more parking

It was never about tyranny.

A high school friend of mine who until a few years ago was a conservative Air Force officer is now posting things on IG about abolishing ICE and attending general strikes

My high school classmates, most of whom are suburban moms who have never so much as mentioned politics, are posting about calling their senators.

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.

Part of cutting out the fascist rot is going to be utterly dismantling the conservative propaganda channels and holding the propagandists responsible. New York should lead with this given the Post and Fox News are based here

YouGov is out with a new poll after ICE killed another person in Minnesota today. Abolishing ICE is now +5 among all adults, and **+12 among independents** substack.com/@gelliottmor...

Deeply unfair that New York City progressives get Mamdani while San Francisco is stuck with this nonsense

I am once again calling for a moratorium on the existence of Los Angeles until we can figure out what the hell is going on down there

New from me: A brief for @rooseveltinstitute.org on the logic of YIMBY policymaking and its applicability to other domains. What principles underlying the YIMBY agenda are transferrable to thinking about energy, healthcare, and other areas? Short 🧵 to follow. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Los Angeles is such an unserious place

Abolishing ICE isn't enough now, we need trials and prison sentences

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Donald Trump, welcome to left NIMBYism!