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Sam Alcorn

@samalcorn.bsky.social

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Housing abundance. Urbanism. Zoning abolitionist. Accessibility Compliance expert. YIMBY. Located in Tovaangar. #OverturnEuclid

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Sam Alcorn @samalcorn.bsky.social · 2d

www.etsy.com/listing/4381...

A cotton T-shirt for sale on Etsy with text on the front reading, "THIS CITY IS NOT A MILITARY TRAINING GROUND." Available in many colors and sizes.

Sam Alcorn @samalcorn.bsky.social · 15m

I’m quite excited about the permitting and inspection shot-clock laws as well.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 53m

Evan Sora 2-generated Nixon can't believe the s*** that Republicans are letting Trump get away with

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Sam Alcorn @samalcorn.bsky.social · 55m

Here’s the extent of SB 79 upzoning in Burlingame (area of city shown in green here):

A map of areas subject to upzoning under SB 79 next to SFO, with the Burlingame town boundaries shown in green.

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Sam Alcorn @samalcorn.bsky.social · 1h

A GIS map of areas around Tier 1 and Tier 2 transit stops. In cities of less than 35,000 population, only the area within 1/4 mile of the stops gets upzoned.

Sam Alcorn @samalcorn.bsky.social · 1h

Right around the CalTrain stops. But that’s as far west as my map is showing.

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Sam Alcorn @samalcorn.bsky.social · 18h

The public-facing HUD website has been essentially destroyed. I was trying to get to an official document that I knew was on there the other day, and that Google linked to directly, and was greeted with a 404 and a banner indicating the website had been hacked:

A pop-up banner on the HUD website reading, “The Radical Left in Congress shut down the government. HUD will use available resources to help Americans in need.”

Sam Alcorn @samalcorn.bsky.social · 18h

Indeed. Let’s fucking go! Today I feel especially proud to be a citizen of this state.

Sam Alcorn @samalcorn.bsky.social · 20h

For sale now!
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A cotton T-shirt for sale, with text reading, "THIS CITY IS NOT A MILITARY TRAINING GROUND." Available in many colors and a full range of sizes. Order now and it should arrive within the next week.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 1d

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 1d

[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!

Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...

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Sam Alcorn @samalcorn.bsky.social · 1d

I see now it’s been canceled. I always thought it was absurd to have a separate airport-style circulator there for SoFi and the other sports venues rather than connecting with the broader transit systems.

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After people mover falters, Inglewood pivots to backup plan for stadium connection

Last year, opposition from the owners of the Clippers and Rams dealt what appeared to be a fatal blow to plans for a $2.4-billion automated people mover system connecting the K Line with SoFi Stadium ...

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Sam Alcorn @samalcorn.bsky.social · 1d

Vacancy trutherism is right up there with flat eartherism and RFK Jr-style anti-vaxxerism. They’re all sides of the same coin.

Sam Alcorn @samalcorn.bsky.social · 1d

www.etsy.com/listing/4381...

A T-shirt for sale on Etsy that says, “RELEASE THE GODDAMN EPSTEIN FILES”

Sam Alcorn @samalcorn.bsky.social · 1d

If only we had high-speed rail from LA to Sacramento by now… I remember how excited I was for that (and still am) back in 2008. When I was a child, I wrote a research paper about the Texas TGV project, which was killed with the help of heavy lobbying from Southwest Airlines.