Says the person who thought Max was saying Costa Hawkins gave us state-wide rent control (when that thread actually had the context required to come to the correct conclusion). Done with you.
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Says the person who thought Max was saying Costa Hawkins gave us state-wide rent control (when that thread actually had the context required to come to the correct conclusion). Done with you.
not my fault you’re bad at explaining what you’re advocating for.
I’m saying folk are better off than they were back when rent increases were literally not at all capped at the state level. I’m saying there is still room for improvement. What part of this are you not comprehending?
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ah, so you’re only talking about 120k properties in all of LA? I thought your ambitions were bigger. My apologies.
I never claimed to be working class? What strawperson are you attempting to push over here.
good luck.
organizing is great. If only you didn’t actively shit on folk who are fighting for much of the same thing you’re fighting for.
is your reading comprehension really that bad?
You really think this line of questioning is owning me, don’t you.
Your stated goal of 0-3% LA-specific rent control is literally impossible until Costa Hawkins is repealed, and you’ve spent much of the last two days yelling at folk who are aligned with that goal. All for, what, internet points? Unhinged shit.
Yes I understand that you believe that sharing 80% of your opinions re housing makes me a horrible person and that you will (unfortunately) accomplish nothing because you have zero clue how to build a coalition.
learn to read: I’m a big fan of making 10% rent **increases** (not caps) untenable for landlords. Market power vs legal power. These are different things.
I’m starting to think you might be one of those “every accusation is a confession” folk.
Me, you absolute clown
great. Same. And here you are, being an absolute ass for no reason
This thread started because you were yelling at folk who want the same thing you want re CH, who literally went to Sacramento to advocate for repeal legislatively, all because they didn’t advocate for a shittier version of the repeal that would have been abused by NIMBYs You’re a know-nothing
Something can be both better than it was and still need improvement. I personally advocated for repealing CH (though not with Weinstein’s language, which was nuts), and for building more housing in my neighborhood. Big fan of making 10% rent increases untenable for landlords.
since you clearly need help understanding the term: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...
I literally don’t know my dad you horse’s ass.
twas a shame that Alex Lee’s social housing bill got gutted / didn’t go anywhere. Excited for him to try again.
It sets a maximum potential rent increase, whereas previously there literally was no maximum. By your logic, rent must have previously gone up infinity percent every year because there was no max? You do see how absurd your argument sounds, no?
Rent control will not solve our affordability issues. It’s one tool (that we should use) of many in the tool chest, not a panacea.
You are living in a fantasy land. You think capping rent increases is the same as ensuring a fixed rent increase every year? Good luck being taken seriously.
So you are actually happy that this bill got passed? Glad to hear it!
My buddy you are now wrong on multiple fronts.
Learn what “counterfactual” means my buddy. This bill is better than not having this bill, and it took political capital to get it over the line, and you are spending your time yelling at the folk who rallied to get it done. Miss me with this performative bullshit.
Prior to this bill we had zero state wide rent control. Seems like you preferred that for some reason?
You’re really out here telling people that a 10% rent raise is not any better than a 15% or 20% rent raise? Absolute 🤡 shit.
Extreme “I have no idea what I’m talking about” energy here. "Chaos agent” is at least an accurate moniker.
I am quite glad you weren’t around to nimby the building I live in now back when it was constructed 40+ years ago.
Do you understand what a counterfactual is? Because it doesn’t sound like you do. Before this bill, 100% rent increase was legal. We’re in a better world now. That doesn’t mean that we can’t further improve the world.
how about “take the win and push for more” rather than “cast aspersions at the folk who helped get the win”
You know what was legal before AB 1482? More than 5% Saying someone is against rent control when they have literally advocated for it (but 2% higher than you’d like) really erodes your credibility.
He’s referring to David Chiu’s AB 1482 Costa Hawkins prevents new rent control at the local level. Meanwhile, AB 1482 got us state-wide rent control on most buildings. Max’s org endorsed and campaigned for Chiu
Michael Weinstein. I thought that was common knowledge.
How exactly would you define “statewide rent control”?
Maybe consider asking the folk you’re backing to write better bills? He’d literally written a more nuanced (straight repeal of CH) bill in a prior election, and the folk you’re yelling at in this thread supported it.
A legislator Max endorsed gave us state-wide rent control a few years back. Your attack here lacks pretty important context.
Max supported a straight Costa Hawkins repeal when that was on the ballot. The 2024 ballot prop was so poorly worded it would have made it such that cities could require rents to fall annually on new construction, which would have prevented new units coming online.
Let's get to the results. SF only issued warnings for the first several months of the program, along with putting up plenty of warning signage. This had a *huge* result! On the 33 speed camera locations, drivers traveling >11 mph over the speed limit fell ~75%! That was just with warnings!
That sucks
ICYMI: You can now pay for BART with credit or debit cards or with mobile payment like Apple and Google Pay. We talked with riders at SFO on launch day to get their thoughts!
MTC is much bigger than SF, but yes. This cluster is one of the many reasons I regularly donate to @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social
Wasn’t Cubic the only bidder for the contract because our fare transfer rules are outrageously complicated? Iirc they were the only ones willing to fulfill the RFP.
Gebbia’s brain got completely cooked on Twitter around 2020. Lost touch with reality. I doubt he can reasonably lead a group that isn’t explicitly partisan these days.
Even just 5 years ago, CADEM embracing a position like this was unthinkable. The party was too dominated by anti-housing zealots and suburban homeowners. Today, the vote to support SB79 was 111 to 62. It’s nothing short of a sea change.
Imagine reading Marx and coming away from it thinking that one of the bigger problems with capitalism is that we don’t subsidize the personal automobile enough
AI is going to democratize having personal assistants, but without the bit where there are repercussions for the assistant screwing up.
Pro-tip: “my buddy” is equally smarmy but without the gender implications. Easy swap
Kinda surprised the Chronicle isn’t pointing out that the Coastal Commission wasn’t interested in continuing the weekend-only park. The option the residents were clamoring for wasn’t on the table.
The good news is I’ve never seen a firmware update required for basic functionality. But yeah the lack of simple versions of things is def annoying.
Most (not all, but most) smart TVs can be used as a dumb monitor. I used a Visio for years without ever connecting it to the internet or accepting the TOS. Yes, you’re paying for functionality you won’t use, but given that the TOS often involves selling your data, it’s kinda a wash.
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Awarding electoral college votes via winner-take-all sucks too. Don’t we have a thing in our constitution that says we’ll change that when a supermajority of states do the same? We should do something similar here.
Go low, and put in one of those “if a supermajority+ join us in going high, we’ll go high too” clauses
California Disability Benefits application process is kafkaesque
Folk on the west side of the city are mad in part because no one told them about the other changes that were coming. When I mentioned it, the most skeptical person responded with “oh. That makes sense then”
Was at the dog park in the Outer Richmond last night and folk were talking about how they weren’t supportive of the Sunset Dunes park because they need to get to Skyline sometimes. Turns out they didn’t know the Sloat->Skyline connection was falling into the ocean and slated for closure.
Drove past a similar one on 101 yesterday and seethed. We are actively funding the destruction of Gaza and deterring action that would stop it. The same can not be said for the Congo. I am sad for the people of the Congo but I am livid that my tax dollars are funding a genocide in my name in Gaza.
BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes? American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
This is literally the traveling salesman problem and that is not really solvable at scale without immense compute power, which is itself costly.
You’re claiming rooms then, not homes?
Is the current household size a factor of your current housing shortage? How many of these homes are folk living with roommates who would rather not?
It’s how things work today. Stopping how things work today without an actionable alternatively (which I think you’d admit that the Vienna model is not actionable today) hurts worsens the pain of our housing shortage without meaningfully advancing your cause.
I strongly support a public housing model. In my advocacy, step 1 is making it legal to build code-compliant multifamily housing by-right. Want to get some funding for public housing? YIMBYs are gonna line up next to you as long as your funding source isn’t private housing (which we also need).
Chicago has approximately one home for every 2.5 people. That’s a pretty far cry from having a ton of spare homes. Not sure where you get your 57x number from either. Jan 2025 PIT counted about 7k homeless folk. Highest estimate of housing vacancy I found counts 130k vacant units. That’s under 20x.
The vacancy rate includes units that are in the process of changing hands. Chicago’s vacancy rate is just over 5%. That’s not high enough to bring down prices. Vienna has a massive waitlist, no? Let’s aim for better. Public funding is great, but it doesn’t need to be pit against private dollars
Why do you think preventing the building of a human right is going to make it more likely that housing is treated as a right? You can’t project-by-project your way to building Housing For All. What exactly is your theory of change here?
My “I’m not opposing the development” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions answered by my shirt
Who profits when you go to the grocery store? What percentage of the groceries are affordable? What is the definition of affordable? Oh. I hear you only ask these questions about housing for some reason?
Wait, the guy who endorsed Cuomo in 2025 had a great relationship with a serial child trafficker? Shocker
When housing prices are high, land value is high, and labor is more expensive. This eats into margins. Cheaper construction costs will yield greater aggregate returns for builders.
People really struggle to comprehend the difference between the folk who build housing and the folk who rent it out. High housing prices generally does not mean higher profits for housing developers.
this is especially relevant for certain kinds of progressive approaches to public investment of all kinds, because they fail to recognize that every delay to a project itself costs money it is not *free* to wait and do another study, another public comment period, another community engagement
My most millennial trait is using the word “click” when discussing opening an electronic document
Ehhh. Single family homes will get more expensive on average because the land they sit on will be more valuable. They’re literally rejecting policy that would make them wealthier.
So do we think his kid didn’t get into the college they wanted or something?
Bringing cars back to Market would be a disaster. Keep Market Street Moving! keepmarketstmoving.org
Ugh. I had high hopes for a guy who biked for transit
Wait when the heck did Lurie propose putting cars on Market? No bueno
1 line? They’re going back to Columbia
Housing people in deplorable conditions far away from jobs and services is not a solution. This is an incredibly poor comparison
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
Welp I may be wrong. “Yes and” scenario. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Thank you Senator! Would love to see added into this bill that arresting officers must specify where the detainee is being taken with penalties for giving false information.
That said: I’m not looking forward to the day ~4 years from now when my keys expire and I need to figure out how I set this all up the first time. I recommend taking better notes than I did.
Codesigning is reasonably simple to get into a CI system. With some good online tutorials + AI it took me under a day to get spun up. The dividends of not dealing with this moment are pretty large.
When I visited fam in PA a few years back it was pretty clear that the information environment is utterly fucked. We never taught folk media literacy and we are reaping the results
Mostly responding to the “fuck this guy” quote tweets. Just accomplishes nothing. Granted, he’s probably not on this platform so it’s not harmful either. But it’s poor practice for when it actually matters.
For sure. Though there is a lot of work to do between now and then. And immigration (or whatever T wants to call immigration) enforcement is the big thing
People want to be liked. Negatively reinforcing the behavior we want is not gonna get the goods.
Sure. But let’s reward folk when they say things we want them to say rather than shitting on them. We can shit on them when they inevitably do the next dumb thing.
I’m begging liberals to learn to take the W You don’t need to love someone’s position on one thing to take their support fighting another. Big tents are a winning political strategy.
Welcome to the resistance, Joe
As much as I’d like to blame Elon’s chainsaw for this, seems like local authorities were the ones to drop the ball. bsky.app/profile/nycs...
You didn’t do this when Trump’s data was hacked. Why is Mamdani’s data being hacked different?
We’re going to need a real big tent to fix the bill that passed today