This might be the funniest thing to happen since the time he got COVID

if you haven't seen any photos of what the US used to look like before the clean air/water acts, you should take 30 seconds for a quick image search

Seems like we should maybe build more housing in San Francisco and LA, idk

Last year the California legislature passed Senate Bill 79, which legalized multifamily housing within a half mile of major public transit stops across California. This legislation was nearly a decade in the making. As of today, is officially active! Let the building begin!

I'm the author of ACA 22. I'm also adamantly opposed to it. That deserves an explanation – so I want to tell you what went down w/the ACA, and the fight over transfer taxes & the Taxpayer Protection Act. 👇

"You'll never guess why prices dropped!" It's Emeryville, they built a lot of new housing, and now there are lots of homes available. Saved you a click. Turns out supply and demand is real after all. www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

working class: the 2026 ford F-150 Raptor, a gun collection, blue lives matter shirt ruling class: bicycle, public transit, the women in that “gen z boss and a mini” video

Tragically, this tweet that I wrote 6 (!) years ago is even more true today than it was then

The California Forever billionaires are trying to buy their way into the Governor's office. I guess we'll see if it works! calmatters.org/politics/202...

The best time to listen to Buffy trying to save the state was last year; the second best time is now

You enjoying the show? Sit back and grab a cherry coke; Prop 13 was only the beginning.

IMHO, CA's left being so trash compared to NYC is due to SF leftists defending turf when YIMBYism started gaining traction up there coupled with a guy in LA stealing money meant for people with AIDS and funneling it to anyone willing to say that single family zoning was revolutionary praxis.

CEQA should make greenfield illegal or at least impossibly difficult. California can and should be 100% infill near transit -- both housing and jobs/institutional.

It’s really crazy to see socialist electeds across the country adopt the YIMBY platform, with the exception of San Franciscan socialists who have tied themselves to the mast of left-NIMBYism and Dean Preston’s failed BoS tenure.

The reason we needed a Voting Rights Act is because some states have a political culture that's too primitive to manage liberal democracy on their own.

Current state of the LA mayoral race

LA Mayor candidate Spencer Pratt posted this pic of him kneeling at Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church in Downtown LA with the caption "God is good." That's actually a statue of St. Jude Thaddeus, patron saint of desperate cases & lost causes. At this point, he's praying for a miracle.

I know that we can get a little hyper-partisan here, but a lot of people did pour their heart and soul into Spencer Pratt's campaign. If you know any, please take a moment to reach out and be human: tell them politics will always feel this way and they should not participate in the future.

as Senator I will ban data centers from: - harvesting your spine - digesting your nuclear family to power Claude - deploying The Infinite Suffering Algorithm

LA County deserves better governance and it probably starts by getting rid of all cities

California's options for governor are a billionaire who says he'll fight for progressive policy changes that would make my life better, or a guy who's campaign is propped up by billionaires and promises to make my life worse. So yeah, I voted for Tom Steyer. Wasn't a hard choice!

I need this guy to be my governor so fucking bad man

A great reminder that we can't solve the climate crisis without completely reorienting land-use policy in this country. Car-dependence is a choice. If you're an environmentalist and you aren't working on supporting urban densification, you're literally and figuratively spinning your wheels.

I got to ask Steyer how the state would help speed up transportation projects like the D line extension. “Having people live in walkable, enjoyable, diverse neighborhoods — that’s our future”

A major problem in American politics is the rejection of credentialism and empiricism for emotionalism and narcissism. Like if you actually have credentials or subject matter knowledge in a topic you're actively discouraged from engaging in politics.

I really hope Tom Steyer manages to make it into the top 2 tomorrow, but if he doesn't, Mahan losing badly is still a very nice consolation prize

Steyeristas, we are, once again, SO back

This might be my favorite New York Post headline ever

I am perplexed by the S.F. partisans outraged that S.F. Bike Coalition endorsed Scott Wiener over Connie Chan - given that the latter’s signature policy priorities over the past six years have been re-opening JFK Drive and Sunset Dunes to cars.

For those following along at home, CARB’s vote today essentially guts the greenhouse gas reduction fund and eviscerates the state’s largest sources of funding for affordable housing and public transit. At a time when we should be doubling down on them, we’re pulling away.

The UC Berkeley IGS poll is out! Becerra 25 Hilton 21 Steyer 19 Californians: it is your patriotic duty to vote for Steyer to give us a Becerra/Steyer matchup so we can depress Republican turnout for every congressional and down ballot race in the state. www.latimes.com/california/s...

I rarely do direct advocacy on here, but if you live in San Mateo and care about housing, come out to city hall tonight at 6pm! The worst people in the city are trying to get Commissioner Patel bounced from the planning commission, and she needs our support!

The Forest Service is spraying fire-scorched Tahoe area forests and ski slopes with Roundup. Mountain streams run along the base of those slopes...you can see where this is going. The science on human glyphosate risks remains murky, thanks to Monsanto's meddling, but we know it wipes out wildlife.

"Scott Wiener, one man in a legislature of 120, did not manage to solve California's decades-long housing shortage or completely a land-use paradigm that has been in place since the 1950s in his two 4 year terms in the state senate. Vote for me. I am very smart."

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.