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Mishka @mishkaa.bsky.social · 2h

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Mishka @mishkaa.bsky.social · 5h

Pay It Forward Housing Compact is brilliant naming

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City Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 6h

Thoughts on how to get there

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Dan Murphy PE (@danmurphy672689)

The Pay It Forward Housing Compact Restoring Affordability, Protecting Recent Buyers, and Re-anchoring Housing as a Home Problem Statement Since 1970, the median home price–to–income multiplier in ...

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Mishka @mishkaa.bsky.social · 5h

Wish I knew about this! Not Lithuanian but Ukrainian, I love Lithuanian culture and especially their food (obvious Commonwealth influence left on Ukraine, too)

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Mishka @mishkaa.bsky.social · 7h

That's what clean-up bills are for, no?

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Mishka @mishkaa.bsky.social · 10h

Literally anyone is better than the current mayor on housing, sure. Hard to be worse.

Mishka @mishkaa.bsky.social · 16h

If you're fortunate enough to own a SFH that will be upzoned by SB 79, you'll be able to sell your house for ~3x it's pre-upzoned value. Look at Expo/Bundy station in LA to see how it will actually play out in your neighborhood.

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Mishka @mishkaa.bsky.social · 16h

It's important for people like you to understand how things will really play out in reality. This is precisely what it will look like: youtu.be/s-MnbKfZYiY

Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky Explains Density Bonus Law

YouTube video by Los Angeles Housing Production Institute

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Mishka @mishkaa.bsky.social · 1d

Stay impotently mad. Get used to being on the backfoot, because the SB 79 cleanup bills to strengthen it are coming.

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Prof Prachi Srivastava @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about this for most of the night, I don't think normal people realise Banerjee & Duflo leaving MIT is Bad-Bunny-level academic news.

www.barrons.com/news/nobel-w...

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 2d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Mishka @mishkaa.bsky.social · 1d

Isn't it just that one historical preservationist NIMBY from LA? I know him all too well.

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Mishka @mishkaa.bsky.social · 1d

Proud to be blocked by Larry on xitter, blue sky, Facebook and insta

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Mishka @mishkaa.bsky.social · 1d

United Neighbors are probably in utter shock but I'll be sure to post their mailing list meltdowns

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Mishka @mishkaa.bsky.social · 1d

Yes!!!!!!!!!

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Mishka @mishkaa.bsky.social · 1d

If he does nothing it becomes law. Possible outcome, who knows anymore.

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Mishka @mishkaa.bsky.social · 2d

can you quantify "a lot"?

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Mike Flannigan @mikeflannigan.bsky.social · 2d

🔥 New fire paper out - Fire regime changes in Canada: an update. Overall, the big-picture trends remain consistent: annual area burned, the annual number and size of large fires are still increasing, but the total number of fires for all sizes continue to decline.
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...

Fire regime changes in Canada: an update

Given the recent rise in extreme fires, we present an update to a previous Canadian wildfire trend analysis (1959-2015) with nine additional years of data (2016-2024), an improved area burned dataset,...

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Brian Caulfield @briancaulfield.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine if Ireland could lay rail tracks as quickly as it builds roads.... my article in the @irishtimes.com today

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Brian Caulfield: Now Metrolink is going ahead, what’s the next rail project for Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway?

If Luas Finglas is delivered on time, there will have been a 15-year gap since the last Luas extension

www.irishtimes.com

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Mishka @mishkaa.bsky.social · 2d

Yes I know this is akin to astrology but let me feel good about this for a little bit!

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Mishka @mishkaa.bsky.social · 2d

Traders think the chances of SB 79 passing is now at 89%

Mishka @mishkaa.bsky.social · 4d

The prediction market, Kalshi, has the chances of SB 79 passing at 88% kalshi.com/markets/kxca...

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Louis Mirante @louismirante.bsky.social · 3d

When she was Controller, she endorsed SB 50 (the predecessor to SB 79 by Wiener on TOD housing pending in front of the Governor now) AND she dropped the hottest diss track white paper ever calling on the Legislature to build more housing with great urgency www.sco.ca.gov/2019_06summa...

2019_06Summary

You can also view this newsletter as a PDF.

www.sco.ca.gov

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Mishka @mishkaa.bsky.social · 3d

I hope this is what's happening because god damn I'm getting a lil anxious bsky.app/profile/mish...

Mishka @mishkaa.bsky.social · 3d

what's the strategy here exactly? maximining support for Prop 50? I guess anything has him turning supporters doesn’t help. So it just makes sense to string the signing along as long as possible?

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Mishka @mishkaa.bsky.social · 3d

what's the strategy here exactly? maximining support for Prop 50? I guess anything has him turning supporters doesn’t help. So it just makes sense to string the signing along as long as possible?

Mishka @mishkaa.bsky.social · 3d

Vibes? Who knows.

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California National Party (CNP) @votecnp.bsky.social · 4d

The world we leave to our children and all future generations will be far harsher than the one we have known.

#ClimateCrisis

Glacier melt will lead to ice-free peaks in California for first time in human history

New research shows massive glaciers in Sierra Nevada projected to melt away by the beginning of the next century

www.theguardian.com

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