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No profit motive? Sounds like we should have a Land Value Tax
Of course it’s historic. How else would remember that single family zoning began in Berkeley
Swap Ava with Kat. Zero chance he puts up Ava
Ava can’t play for HOH
Toni Atkins is a good option. She has a pretty good record on housing in the state senate. She was a lead author of SB 9 (2022) alongside Scott Weiner, which abolished single family zoning in CA.
There is a 10% chance Adrian lives up to his own hype, and a 90% chance he crashes and burns in the first 2 weeks #bb27
I already saw someone change their pfp to that beach pic. stans are crazy, but I respect it
BBsky is going to be this entire website this summer #BBsky #bb27
Great
The 5 year vacancy requirement is going to stop anything from being redeveloped. It’s going to be a flop like SB 9 all over again
We’re still missing reforms for missing middle housing. Previous bill SB 9 that allows for duplexes and lot splits needs some serious improvements.
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[BILL ALERT] SB 79, which broadly legalizes more homes near transit stops like train stations and rapid bus stops, has passed the Senate floor! Learn more:
If any of these Senators who haven’t voted are yours, give them a call using this link. California’s ability to provide housing people can afford hangs in the balance. cayimby.org/call-sb-79/
????? Is this like sigma male? I’m so confused. I feel like I need a full essay explaining this in layman terms
SB 79 may come up for a vote today -- now is the time to call your State Senator to urge them to vote YES on this bill to legalize multifamily housing around rail and BRT stops across the state. Click here for an easy way to make your call:
If it were up to me the fighting would end today and every Palestinian and their descendants who were kicked out during Nakba would be allowed back into Israel and granted full citizenship. But what I’m not going to do is use my anger towards Israel to excuse violence against Jews in America.
To us Jews it doesn’t feel complicated. We see the violence committed yesterday as violence against us. We see it as antisemitism. We feel the hatred that was targeted in that attack. To us it doesn’t matter what their views of the war are. To us they are Jews.
Antisemitism is historically malleable, and it’s tied to conspiracies in a way that cuts across partisan lines. To say it only exists from one source ignores the reality that us Jews face. Antisemitism can take many forms including an extreme, perverted and violent form of anti-Israel sentiment.
When the US put Japanese Americans in internment camps, was that racism or just a “misguided reaction”? It may not seem like antisemitism to you, but to the Jews who experience this hate it is very real. You are entirely justified in your anger at the war, but don’t excuse antisemitism.
Genuine question: why is this successful while SB 9 is not? What can CA take from this and implement in our own system?
Indoctrinating the youth. I love to see it.
Investing is only half the issue. Why is SJ spending 5 billion on tunnel boring instead of cut and cover for BART? Why is LA considering a monorail for the Sepulveda line? Why is it taking 50 years to complete CAHSR? The state needs to be better at managing transit projects.
CA’s conventional highways are key parts of our communities and key parts of our lives. As CA continues to grow, much of this growth will be centered around these corridors. That is why I am calling on @cayimby.bsky.social to push forward legislation that will support growth and improve the streets
Currently, local communities want to improve these streets, but face pushback from the state. It should be the other way around, with state wanting to improve the streets and the local communities happily allowing them.
Additionally, these are among the hardest streets to improve, with safety projects often taking decades to be implemented. In large part, state ownership of these highways acts as a barrier to improvements because of bureaucracy and car-centric standards in caltrans
Additionally, these are among the deadliest streets in the state. In the Bay Area, the top five deadliest streets are all state owned Highways. Emphasizing the need for multimodal transportation along these roads.
These highways, streets like El Camino in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties and Santa Monica Blvd. in LA, serve downtowns and important commercial corridors throughout CA, making them incredibly capable of supporting additional housing.
The state should also require caltrans to update its standards for conventional highways during SHOPP repaving and highway reconstruction to prioritize pedestrians, bikers, and transit.
@muhammadspeaks.bsky.social @cayimby.bsky.social I think the CA YIMBY team should support legislation to improve housing construction along state conventional highways. The state should update zoning to allow for more housing units along these key commercial corridors. -🧵
This is such a dumb argument. At the existing 50% requirement there is no incentive to build at all. The lower 20% requirement provides an actual incentive to build affordable housing alongside market rate housing. Thus creating more affordable units than previously.
But it shouldn’t be
SF to LA by 2030 shouldn’t be a pipe dream, it should be the target
I don’t get it
Watching CNBC at 2x speed and everyone is a coked up day trader
I, for one, welcome the “abundance” fight. It shows the left can fight Trumpism while wrestling with how we can be better than we’ve been. I have no interest in “actually the government has been doing great” liberalism.
@scottwiener.bsky.social you are the GOAT! More of this! More SB 35! More SB 423! Get it done!
I’m really loving your book and I’m glad that Newsom is really receptive to your message. But after listening to the podcast, I’m still not confident that CA dems will actually make embrace it. Who knows? Maybe we’ll get SB 35 on steroids and some strong CEQA exemptions.
In “Way of the Kings” there’s a cursed king who doesn’t know whether he will wake up a genius or an idiot each morning. That’s how I am now with anger. Today I am very angry.
Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol
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The thing is, you can replace “cruel” in this sentence with funny, artistic, thoughtful, thoughtless, compassionate, greedy, kinky, creative, or any of 1000 other adjectives. Why are so many of us only able to see us as exceptional in our faults?
High inequality, rising political violence, and the richest men are dominating politics. We’re living in a 2nd Gilded Age. Maybe #Democrats should resurrect Teddy Roosevelt and run him on the ticket in 2028.
What a time to be alive
Democrats need in 2028 to embrace the message of rebuilding American Democracy, both politically and economically. Return to the progressivism that brought an end to the Gilded Age.
Sue probably won’t play the idol if she doesn’t see Genevieve play one #survivor47
Most industries are still functioning pretty well. We’re still doing better off than during the Gilded Age, and that’s when capitalism was at its most extractive.
I feel like some industries resemble less of the innovation and improved quality of goods we might expect from capitalism, and instead are more emblematic of the extractive industries of pre-capitalist feudalism. That’s what happens when you don’t have regulations curbing the power of monopolists
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And they’re set to reach the one piece in the year 3000
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So does that mean someone could use ATproto to create their own Bsky or twitter like entity?
The Democratic Party needs to embrace more democratic and inclusive systems. Embrace mechanisms that allow for greater input within our bureaucracy; and create barriers to the powerful and wealthy special interest groups that dominate.
Republicans have slashed bureaucracy, allowing corporations to grow in power unimpeded. Democrats failed to respond by not creating greater inclusion and representation within our bureaucracy. Instead, Democrats have relied on a technocracy that means well but does not reflect the people’s will.