Los Angeles. Dad of 3. Bike commuter. Bike dad. Yimby. Union teacher.
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The pink areas are where apartments are banned. Does that look like they are allowed to build? Developers don’t actually care that much about zoning or single stair. Yimbys don’t have a lot of developers in their ranks. It’s mostly people who just want more affordable housing and better cities.
Sure. But until that communist revolution, we have the private market and they should be allowed to build.
We have a housing shortage. Who’s going to build the housing if not developers? The Amish?
You get more affordable units by building more units. Modern single stair buildings are very safe and how they build affordable social housing all over the world.
There's been a cultural shift since I was a kid in the 80s, where parents believe kids are only safe if they are in a car. And in someways they are correct because we made the roads only for cars so that no one is safe if they aren't in one, and even then the safety is an illusion.
lol
Malcom Harris is against single start because of financing or something. Who knows. This guy once blocked me for asking him if technocratic tweaks don't work, then why is ED1 working? All these lefty nimbys argue in such bad faith.
A collection of anecdotes. Great!
source: you made it up
The best way to ban tenant screenings is to make housing plentiful so landlords are begging for tenants.
A little NELA urban cross for Labor Day.
That the guy from the nimby blog who posts on twitter?
I just took my son to Taco Bell in Burbank and two kids just brought their bikes inside. It's good to see kids enjoy bike freedom. But I didn't even think about how parking mins effected design (which was just like this).
Someone needs to tell this people about all the sweet, sweet tax write off money.
A former mayor of Santa Monica says it best: gentrification is too much money chasing too little housing
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
I battled with some of those suburban NY NIMBYs when that NY TOD bill was up for a vote and they are on another level. They don’t bother with any of that left nimby 2 step. They are just straight up racist. Gotta respect the honesty I guess, but I’d really like to see them lose.
Congrats!!!
You’re lucky. Our Thai place like that in Silver Lake went thru some price discovery and is like 3x as much now and twice as crowded. Good for them, they are great people. But I miss it.
MFW a good California housing bill gets watered down in every single committee by suburbanite legislators, and then after its passage the legs who exempted their districts and watered it down will brag to the press about how pro-housing they are.
We need Jon Lovett to roast him on housing next.
I can't believe historic is in there. Everything else, fine. But historic, come on. Next bill just ends that unless the home itself is on some national registry.
Is Newsom going to launch a statewide task force on building more housing or just sit there anf let solution bills like sb79 get weakened?
Clown show.
please contact me if you control "dark money" and want to pay me to promote high rise trousers, walkable neighborhoods, and adopting shelter animals
This location she's talking about is across the street from the Orange Line, BRT, and targets Sec 8 households that are very likely to be transit users.
Yes, I do think as a society, we should regulate driving for certain medical conditions. I make no assumptions about yours, I just asked. You are the one who brought up.
Ah yes, I see. That makes sense. Giving everyone free street parking was an enormous policy error. It's warped people's brain.
Send it to the DMV, not me.
Jesus Christ, you are driving with vertigo.
Do you drive with those kinds of conditions? That sounds very dangerous.
"Air pollution from oil and gas causes more than 90,000 premature deaths and sickens hundreds of thousands of people across the US each year, a new study shows..." If MAHA were anything other than dipshit reactionary fantasies & conspiracy theories, it would focus overwhelmingly on air pollution.
That moment on the show was so jarring. It feels like a housing anecdote that can break containment and help build the support to get SB79 across the line.
What does rent control do for poor people if there are no apartments allowed in the neighborhoods?
This is no different in Silver Lake.
A dad at my preschool co-op recounted how he lived in a studio with 5 people when he moved out here to become a writer.
This is like liberal nextdoor thought. The median nextdoor poster is mad that she let three stories and more cars in the neighborhood and hoping someone nimbyier runs against her.
Isn't mostly rental stock?
I like @kevinerdmann.bsky.social theory that COVID online meetings muted the nimbys and we are just know seeing that supply come online. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Can you imagine living on top of a bomb churro spot!? 5 over 1 churro spots should be mandatory.
There's plenty on the left in LA and in California still the enemies of housing. They fought ED1. Dean Preston was on a podcast last night calling new housing "trickle down economics". But I'm all for this turn that Nithya and company are having. Left yimby is my home.
Wiener is my kind of nerd because he responds with "I haven't seen any cement buildings."
Yup. There's an affordable housing building 2 blocks from me that was slashed from 4 to 2 stories. And the nimby group who did it, brags about it on their website.
This is how he works. Let him cook and get this thing across.
One of my favorite episodes. He and I have the same cargo bike. thewaroncars.org/episode-61-j...
Incredible stuff
Of course pro builders are going to be the ones who can take this on. A corporate builder could easily and most likely is a small business builder. Building a house from the ground up in no joke. Didn't you buy a house from a corporate builder? Banning this would lower the value of their land.
This was a great conversation. Go watch it if you care about housing in California www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyUp...
CD6 council member Imelda Padilla tells Jon Lovett and Scott Wiener during an SB79 debate that she believes the number one job description of a council member is land use decisions. She also continually says that SB79 is an unfunded mandate to the city.
This is kind of the opposite of an Echo Park example where a burger stand owned by a white family catered to the older Latino population. Now it's being replaced by a Mexico City Churro place that will cater to the newer upper middle class white population.
I often think about this reply she made in an argument with Darrel after Roe was overturned and he was yelling about how we need to build to let in red state refugees. She said something like "It's true our housing policy means less people can live here but..." She deleted all those too. She knows.
Amazing stuff happening on the Raman team. Checkout this fact check on the vacancy tax.
Thanks for the insight!
Ok, thanks. I'm a little surprised at how bummed I was she wasn't there. Good to see I'm not totally dead to emotions.
I was excited to meet with my assembly member today to lobby for SB79 but she didn't show up and sent a staffer instead. This probably doesn't bode well for her vote. I wonder if she's showing up for meetings with anti SB79 groups.
If that's true, then there's no reason to fight against upzoning.
She's so gross. A huge liar, and clout chaser for the worst people.
She's worked for years on the state rent control bill for AHF, so I don't know.
You can clear your left nimby bingo card in 90 seconds of Dean speaking. He even gets in trickle down economics. A real contrast to Nithya. Which way, socialist?
I’m putting together a team…
Oh of course
They will build McMansion suburbs in Yosemite and Death Valley
We will turn Huntington Beach into the world’s biggest desalination plant. Take that MAGA!
Doh!
The self esteem of California Republicans is so low
Don’t forget all the deserts!
This map is so good, hahahahaha…no, but hahahahaha
Great video. Thanks for all the pro housing advocacy. This is the leadership LA needs right now!
There's no good to come from dunking on tenants who are rightfully bummed out. I sure would like to know how much they end up getting off their rent though. The max, $275, is no joke. Lots of people would probably take that deal.
She literally wrote I support SB9 just not in my neighborhood. lol. But glad for her awakening. We need this leadership desperately.
Bus service in Ktown is also some of the best in the city. It's transit score is 80, walk score, 90.
Have you read what Climate Scientist have said about housing policy? www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/o...
I think standing up for ED1 in the valley, being deserted by DSA and then winning and reformed her into the best elected in LA
Her speech against SB79 had me thinking mayor.
I’ve wanted this in LA forever. I can’t believe it’s happening. I got a little emotional. You’re next!
Great video here from Nithya Raman. This is the pro housing voice we’ve been missing in LA.
Per @toddlitman.bsky.social, despite common assumptions, traveling by bus, subway or train is far safer than driving. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Well that's unusual. Anyway, the United States has been below a replacement-level fertility rate since the mid-1970
I’m curious are you of the generation born between 1946-1964? This is usually who brings up this conversation around housing in my experience.
One thing I was thinking about is how other nonrprofits can have such ridiculous mission creep they destroy their orgs integrity like Surfrider fighting housing, Sunrise Movement come to mind. The Tenants Org can't even widen to talk about safe streets. They are so narrow it's ridiculous.
There were a few smug retweets that were just like “get a bike” and that’s just how the internet works. It’s probably not helpful, but it’s rare. And most people wouldn’t do that in person to someone.
Do you think that tenants activist has ever taken the bus in LA, I’m leaning no.
Or parking reform! How many people just store cars on the public streets? My neighbor has a VW collection that he stores on the street.
The tenants activists talking about parking at restaurants while we have a drastic housing shortage is so out of touch. She deserves scorn.
We have people in California that move here for a new start, and/or to flee red state bigotry and they can’t land in a home because of the shortages.
Mike Solana is a raging anti Yimby.
Don’t we also see this in places with strong tenant protections like SF and Santa Monica that don’t build nearly enough housing?
Woah, this makes me kind of emotional
Taking shots at my favorite genre
I agree with that. There are people doing that. Like I ride a bike in LA but I don’t expect these women to take up cycling, especially in bike lane less Ktown.
It was truly horrifying to hear from people in nonprofits and government trying desperately to house migrants in blue states over the last few years, who simply could not find any place to house them, because barely any new housing existed and prices were being driven higher and higher.
I think the smug replies are really to the car brained tenants activists argument than to the tenants. It sucks for the tenants, but the trade offs for new housing is worth it overall and I hope they get the max 275 off their rent.
Tenants can get up to $275 off rent depending on parking issues. Are you really saying this should be banned? Is the issue ADU conversion or is it free street parking policy? I think banning ADU conversion is an exaggeration of the issue.
You do get a rent reduction for the loss of parking.
"SB 79 could result in too much upzoning" lol calmatters.org/commentary/r...
I can see that argument but they are specifically fighting against the new tenants.
I've got nearly 30 years in LA and this has never happened to me either. Tenants do receive a deduction in rent for losing their parking.
