Jake Gotta
@jakegotta.bsky.social
Social media host and reporter for @kpbssandiego.bsky.social
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One more design review panel bro. I swear, just one more design review panel.
What if I told you they all look *like that* because of city-imposed design and facade mandates, not because people (or developers) like them?
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
One more design review panel bro. I swear, just one more design review panel.
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People will go on this app and say anything. “Apple pie is mid.” No it isn’t. That isn’t true
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
People will go on this app and say anything. “Apple pie is mid.” No it isn’t. That isn’t true
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you don’t understand, under Biden doordash was expensive
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
you don’t understand, under Biden doordash was expensive
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Conditions in places that make up a disproportionate share of the national economy *are* in fact more important. That’s where people are much more likely to want to move!
Conditions in NYC, Boston, and SF may feel more important to you than Cincinnati and Chicago and Oklahoma City and Houston, but rather than finding a way to rationalize this instinct, I’d encourage you to recognize that it is a your perception of the country being distorted by social relationships.
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Conditions in places that make up a disproportionate share of the national economy *are* in fact more important. That’s where people are much more likely to want to move!
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Ice is gassing neighbors in St. Paul this morning g during a paramilitary fascist raid on the city.
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Ice is gassing neighbors in St. Paul this morning g during a paramilitary fascist raid on the city.
What if I told you they all look *like that* because of city-imposed design and facade mandates, not because people (or developers) like them?
November 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
What if I told you they all look *like that* because of city-imposed design and facade mandates, not because people (or developers) like them?
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or my great grand parents, or my parents again (despite the housing costs) or the dozens of young people i know who moved from across the country to he in film and TV.
LA's founding myth: "Where any office boy or young mechanic, can be all panic, with just a good looking pan."
LA's founding myth: "Where any office boy or young mechanic, can be all panic, with just a good looking pan."
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
or my great grand parents, or my parents again (despite the housing costs) or the dozens of young people i know who moved from across the country to he in film and TV.
LA's founding myth: "Where any office boy or young mechanic, can be all panic, with just a good looking pan."
LA's founding myth: "Where any office boy or young mechanic, can be all panic, with just a good looking pan."
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OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
Guys the way to interpret this image is, “these are the top 10 cities with the most un-tapped potential in their greater suburbs/exurbs”
P who want to move to LA live in like, Riverside. Ppl who would move to Atlanta live in Cumberland, etc
High % = lots of ppl nearby who can’t afford the city !
P who want to move to LA live in like, Riverside. Ppl who would move to Atlanta live in Cumberland, etc
High % = lots of ppl nearby who can’t afford the city !
Bluesky: “Obviously the housing crisis is the only reason anyone would choose to live outside of NYC”
Actual Americans: “Vegas, baby!”
Actual Americans: “Vegas, baby!”
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Guys the way to interpret this image is, “these are the top 10 cities with the most un-tapped potential in their greater suburbs/exurbs”
P who want to move to LA live in like, Riverside. Ppl who would move to Atlanta live in Cumberland, etc
High % = lots of ppl nearby who can’t afford the city !
P who want to move to LA live in like, Riverside. Ppl who would move to Atlanta live in Cumberland, etc
High % = lots of ppl nearby who can’t afford the city !
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Relegalize SROs. Relegalize single stair buildings to enable larger, family sized homes. Legalize townhomes everywhere. Legalize ADUs everywhere. Legalize apartment buildings in more places. Yes to all the homes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
The ‘New’ Solution for the N.Y.C. Housing Crisis: Single-Room Apartments
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Relegalize SROs. Relegalize single stair buildings to enable larger, family sized homes. Legalize townhomes everywhere. Legalize ADUs everywhere. Legalize apartment buildings in more places. Yes to all the homes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
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The alternative to an SRO isn't a larger apartment; the alternative is a tent.
Relegalize SROs. Relegalize single stair buildings to enable larger, family sized homes. Legalize townhomes everywhere. Legalize ADUs everywhere. Legalize apartment buildings in more places. Yes to all the homes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
The ‘New’ Solution for the N.Y.C. Housing Crisis: Single-Room Apartments
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The alternative to an SRO isn't a larger apartment; the alternative is a tent.
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broke: YIMBYs fighting DSA
woke: YIMBYs and DSA forming an alliance to take down realtors
🏘️🤝🏘️
(op ed written by my friend Thomas Irwin from @abundanthousingla.bsky.social's Eastside Housing for All chapter!)
woke: YIMBYs and DSA forming an alliance to take down realtors
🏘️🤝🏘️
(op ed written by my friend Thomas Irwin from @abundanthousingla.bsky.social's Eastside Housing for All chapter!)
Who are the most powerful NIMBYs in California? Realtors
OPINION: “No one should be more invested in expanding creative home sales opportunities than real estate agents, whose job is to help families realize their homeownership dreams.”
www.sfchronicle.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
broke: YIMBYs fighting DSA
woke: YIMBYs and DSA forming an alliance to take down realtors
🏘️🤝🏘️
(op ed written by my friend Thomas Irwin from @abundanthousingla.bsky.social's Eastside Housing for All chapter!)
woke: YIMBYs and DSA forming an alliance to take down realtors
🏘️🤝🏘️
(op ed written by my friend Thomas Irwin from @abundanthousingla.bsky.social's Eastside Housing for All chapter!)
Yes, If NYC/the Bay were more affordable, people from tons of other metros would move there!
That would also make *those* metros cheaper, & people from their suburbs would move in !
Nobody is suggesting everybody from Cedar Rapids would up and move to NYC (but some might!)
That would also make *those* metros cheaper, & people from their suburbs would move in !
Nobody is suggesting everybody from Cedar Rapids would up and move to NYC (but some might!)
The idea that if Brooklyn rents were at Dallas or Houston levels anyone would still choose Dallas or Houston over Brooklyn is kind of insane
While it’s probably true that housing costs are keeping people out of CA and NY, there’s this notion that middle America or the sunbelt will empty out and depart to Brooklyn if Brooklyn built more units, and I’m pretty sure the people who believe this all live in Brooklyn already
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Yes, If NYC/the Bay were more affordable, people from tons of other metros would move there!
That would also make *those* metros cheaper, & people from their suburbs would move in !
Nobody is suggesting everybody from Cedar Rapids would up and move to NYC (but some might!)
That would also make *those* metros cheaper, & people from their suburbs would move in !
Nobody is suggesting everybody from Cedar Rapids would up and move to NYC (but some might!)
That’s right
Will is totally I missing the rejoinder. Way more people would live in the Northeast and coastal CA if we allowed for abundant home building.
November 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
That’s right
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man you really want to keep digging dontcha
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
man you really want to keep digging dontcha
He’s doing the “Real Americans” bit from Fox News now
Okay this one irritates me so I’m gonna say something! I have never ever said “Move to Cincinnati.” I have just insist that we need to recognize that MOST AMERICANS live in places like Cincinnati or Minneapolis, not NYC, which is important if you’re going to talk about conditions in America.
Arguably you could say his takes on how you should move to Cincinnati are transphobia in practice but like that definition makes like 50% of urban liberals transphobes and imo dilutes the definition. He probably would respond saying you could also move to MSP
November 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
He’s doing the “Real Americans” bit from Fox News now
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Also: the Bay Area is the country’s great wealth engine.
When Detroit, Chicago and NYC were the the country’s wealth engines, their housing stock grew rapidly, famously helping tens of millions of oppressed people reach economic security and empowerment.
S.F. progressives: that could be us but nah
When Detroit, Chicago and NYC were the the country’s wealth engines, their housing stock grew rapidly, famously helping tens of millions of oppressed people reach economic security and empowerment.
S.F. progressives: that could be us but nah
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Also: the Bay Area is the country’s great wealth engine.
When Detroit, Chicago and NYC were the the country’s wealth engines, their housing stock grew rapidly, famously helping tens of millions of oppressed people reach economic security and empowerment.
S.F. progressives: that could be us but nah
When Detroit, Chicago and NYC were the the country’s wealth engines, their housing stock grew rapidly, famously helping tens of millions of oppressed people reach economic security and empowerment.
S.F. progressives: that could be us but nah
Broke: pedestrianized streets
Woke: carcinizized streets
Woke: carcinizized streets
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Broke: pedestrianized streets
Woke: carcinizized streets
Woke: carcinizized streets
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E-bikes are here to stay. As more people use them, cities need to recalibrate their streets to ensure that everyone can be safe. My comments today in the Union Tribune: www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/23/c...
Charged Up: The Rise of E-bikes, series Part 6: If e-bikes are here to stay, now what?
Retailers, regulators, parenting advisers, law enforcement and biking advocates have ideas for creating a culture of safe e-bike use
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
E-bikes are here to stay. As more people use them, cities need to recalibrate their streets to ensure that everyone can be safe. My comments today in the Union Tribune: www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/23/c...
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there is something funny about how this is just a version of the broderite anti-partyism that used to dominate the nation’s
op-ed pages and sunday panels and still, to an extent, shapes elite opinion
op-ed pages and sunday panels and still, to an extent, shapes elite opinion
November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
there is something funny about how this is just a version of the broderite anti-partyism that used to dominate the nation’s
op-ed pages and sunday panels and still, to an extent, shapes elite opinion
op-ed pages and sunday panels and still, to an extent, shapes elite opinion
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this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Establishment Freaked Out Over a Mamdani-Trump Press Conference
Meta wins its antitrust case, there are now two fire truck antitrust claims, the stock market got wobbly, and Larry Summers was exiled from the establishment, at least for now.
www.thebignewsletter.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
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Among other things, a problem we see with this approach in San Diego is that forcing a lot of workers in a big city to live 50 miles away from their jobs eventually turns their 60 minute commutes into 120 minute commutes because our roads get clogged with cars bsky.app/profile/knoc...
As a rural guy, I call 'living an hour away from where the jobs are' a typical Tuesday. And I understand that that is my choice. There are places I could move that would put me closer to places where there is work. I don't see anyone throwing a fit that I have an hour commute. Why is this different?
Right the dynamic here in San Diego is that you can live a perfectly normal middle-class life on $100k/year here... if you bought your house 15 years ago or otherwise have some sort of housing hookup like a subsidized BMR unit.
Other option is to live an hour+ away from where the jobs are
Other option is to live an hour+ away from where the jobs are
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Among other things, a problem we see with this approach in San Diego is that forcing a lot of workers in a big city to live 50 miles away from their jobs eventually turns their 60 minute commutes into 120 minute commutes because our roads get clogged with cars bsky.app/profile/knoc...
Apropos of nothing (lol) I would argue that median home prices going up by 57% in just 5 years, in an already expensive market, constitutes a “crisis”
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Apropos of nothing (lol) I would argue that median home prices going up by 57% in just 5 years, in an already expensive market, constitutes a “crisis”
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Seen a lot of people wondering why X, The Everything App would have a feature that gives away how much of the popular right wing accounts are foreign actors and this is why. They thought every left wing account would be that way because every accusation is also a confession.
Planned Parenthood uses a VPN so its twitter location is shown as Germany and now all of MAGA twitter thinks Planned Parenthood is a fake organization based in Europe.
November 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Seen a lot of people wondering why X, The Everything App would have a feature that gives away how much of the popular right wing accounts are foreign actors and this is why. They thought every left wing account would be that way because every accusation is also a confession.
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We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)
I don’t know what the Supreme Court will do, but I am confident that at the District Court level it is still the case that the Pentagon cannot recall a sitting US Senator to active duty in order to court martial him for something he said. Article 1, Section 6, among other constitutional provisions.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)