Max Dubler, AICP 🏳️🌈
@maxdubler.com
Certified urban planner posting for California YIMBY about housing, and for myself about skateboarding and cameras. Tradeoffs are real. he/him
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Max Dubler, AICP 🏳️🌈
@maxdubler.com
· Dec 2
Salesperson: and as you can see, the jacket has this wonderful red lining
Me, an urban planner, eyes narrowing: it has WHAT
Me, an urban planner, eyes narrowing: it has WHAT
When did we have a war on protein?
The War on Christmas at least had the pretext of “happy holidays” to get mad at.
The War on Christmas at least had the pretext of “happy holidays” to get mad at.
white house social media manager: you get those photos of RFK, jr. for the protein post?
white house content creator: sure did boss, real fuckin' sinister, just like you asked
white house social media manager: what
white house content creator: sure did boss, real fuckin' sinister, just like you asked
white house social media manager: what
January 12, 2026 at 6:20 AM
When did we have a war on protein?
The War on Christmas at least had the pretext of “happy holidays” to get mad at.
The War on Christmas at least had the pretext of “happy holidays” to get mad at.
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Look I know that “diversity is our strength” is cringe but: diversity is our strength. People who come from distinct cultural practices actively serving in community with one another. What a blessing to live in a world where that happens.
The thing about all these people they hate — the Somalis, the Haitians — are some of the most generous people you’ve ever met. Whose cultures are predicated on hospitality, whose kindness is entirely unmatched.
Somali aunties were giving out samosas to the anti ICE protesters in Minneapolis.
January 12, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Look I know that “diversity is our strength” is cringe but: diversity is our strength. People who come from distinct cultural practices actively serving in community with one another. What a blessing to live in a world where that happens.
Today in Extremely San Francisco Things, there was a large group of people gathered to play music and commemorate the life of Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Wier outside the former Grateful Dead house at 710 Ashbury, near Haight street.
January 12, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Today in Extremely San Francisco Things, there was a large group of people gathered to play music and commemorate the life of Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Wier outside the former Grateful Dead house at 710 Ashbury, near Haight street.
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I’m just so tired of all of these assholes getting to claim the mantle of Real Americans when I live in an America closer to our ideals than any of them
January 11, 2026 at 11:21 PM
I’m just so tired of all of these assholes getting to claim the mantle of Real Americans when I live in an America closer to our ideals than any of them
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"i am sorry for what i have done in the past and don't yet know how to fix it, but don't want to make it worse" is legitimately about the level best you can hope for someone like this to say, and it should be strongly encouraged anywhere we see it
Losing my shit at Ashley St Clair doing a reverse Naomi Wolf.
January 11, 2026 at 8:13 PM
"i am sorry for what i have done in the past and don't yet know how to fix it, but don't want to make it worse" is legitimately about the level best you can hope for someone like this to say, and it should be strongly encouraged anywhere we see it
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This is a cartoon about housing.
January 11, 2026 at 12:51 PM
This is a cartoon about housing.
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I thought I was familiar with Ken Jennings' game and I now understand that I was, in fact, not familiar
Fred Flintstone is the only straight cereal mascot. Barney Rubble is bi.
January 11, 2026 at 1:11 AM
I thought I was familiar with Ken Jennings' game and I now understand that I was, in fact, not familiar
Need the Lushious Massacr collab with Creature Skateboards.
January 11, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Need the Lushious Massacr collab with Creature Skateboards.
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You can be a NIMBY, or you can support substantive equal citizenship, but not both
When NIMBYs say that California is full and their cities can’t accommodate more housing, they are saying that queer people trying to get out of red states are on their own.
New research confirms what many of us see: there's a large internal migration of LGBTQ people in the US, especially trans people, to friendlier states & cities.
Since 11/2024, 9% of all trans people have moved to another state, 43% have considered moving.
www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...
Since 11/2024, 9% of all trans people have moved to another state, 43% have considered moving.
www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...
January 11, 2026 at 12:38 AM
You can be a NIMBY, or you can support substantive equal citizenship, but not both
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When NIMBYs say that California is full and their cities can’t accommodate more housing, they are saying that queer people trying to get out of red states are on their own.
New research confirms what many of us see: there's a large internal migration of LGBTQ people in the US, especially trans people, to friendlier states & cities.
Since 11/2024, 9% of all trans people have moved to another state, 43% have considered moving.
www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...
Since 11/2024, 9% of all trans people have moved to another state, 43% have considered moving.
www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...
January 11, 2026 at 12:36 AM
When NIMBYs say that California is full and their cities can’t accommodate more housing, they are saying that queer people trying to get out of red states are on their own.
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i will never get over this rebecca tiffany quote: the goal of yimbyism is a world where "every trans eighteen-year-old who is stuck living with unsupportive family [is] able to afford an apartment in a vibrant urban space with transit on a minimum wage job."
www.liberalcurrents.com/feminism-wit...
www.liberalcurrents.com/feminism-wit...
January 11, 2026 at 12:38 AM
i will never get over this rebecca tiffany quote: the goal of yimbyism is a world where "every trans eighteen-year-old who is stuck living with unsupportive family [is] able to afford an apartment in a vibrant urban space with transit on a minimum wage job."
www.liberalcurrents.com/feminism-wit...
www.liberalcurrents.com/feminism-wit...
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blue sanctuary states gotta make room and build more homes
New research confirms what many of us see: there's a large internal migration of LGBTQ people in the US, especially trans people, to friendlier states & cities.
Since 11/2024, 9% of all trans people have moved to another state, 43% have considered moving.
www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...
Since 11/2024, 9% of all trans people have moved to another state, 43% have considered moving.
www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...
January 10, 2026 at 7:18 PM
blue sanctuary states gotta make room and build more homes
I saw a ~70 year old white woman completely dripped out in sage green technical hiking clothing, apple green hair, neon green Hokas, and bottle green sunglasses holding a FUCK ICE sign on the train and she is my new personal style role model.
January 10, 2026 at 11:24 PM
I saw a ~70 year old white woman completely dripped out in sage green technical hiking clothing, apple green hair, neon green Hokas, and bottle green sunglasses holding a FUCK ICE sign on the train and she is my new personal style role model.
Posting on Nextdoor as a YIMBY.
January 10, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Posting on Nextdoor as a YIMBY.
Just as everyone who bought the first Velvet Underground record started a band, everyone who read the @stephenjacobsmith.com report on elevators is trying to run legislation about it.
January 10, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Just as everyone who bought the first Velvet Underground record started a band, everyone who read the @stephenjacobsmith.com report on elevators is trying to run legislation about it.
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Exciting that CAYIMBY is getting involved in transit project delivery state capacity and reform!
Extremely cool policy job opening for anyone interested in transportation. Can be fully remote (US only)! www.metroabundance.org/jobs/transpo...
Transportation Research Associate - Metropolitan Abundance Project
The Organization The Metropolitan Abundance Project (MAP) works to make American cities prosperous, affordable, sustainable, and joyous places to live and raise families. We help advocates and legisla...
www.metroabundance.org
January 10, 2026 at 5:17 AM
Exciting that CAYIMBY is getting involved in transit project delivery state capacity and reform!
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The great thing about being a transit nerd is that I’ve never respected Elon Musk
January 10, 2026 at 2:17 PM
The great thing about being a transit nerd is that I’ve never respected Elon Musk
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Population decline is often offered as a reason for why California doesn't need to build housing. (Never mind the obvious fact that that it's endogenous to the shortage.) But even if California didn't grow at all, shrinking household sizes and deterioration would necessitate more housing.
Oregon's net population growth has slowed. But even if it stopped *completely*, state economists estimate we'd still need to add 50k more homes in the next 20 years.
That's because longer lives & smaller families mean we'll have many more small households. It's about 1/3 of all our future need.
That's because longer lives & smaller families mean we'll have many more small households. It's about 1/3 of all our future need.
January 9, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Population decline is often offered as a reason for why California doesn't need to build housing. (Never mind the obvious fact that that it's endogenous to the shortage.) But even if California didn't grow at all, shrinking household sizes and deterioration would necessitate more housing.
Extremely cool policy job opening for anyone interested in transportation. Can be fully remote (US only)! www.metroabundance.org/jobs/transpo...
Transportation Research Associate - Metropolitan Abundance Project
The Organization The Metropolitan Abundance Project (MAP) works to make American cities prosperous, affordable, sustainable, and joyous places to live and raise families. We help advocates and legisla...
www.metroabundance.org
January 9, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Extremely cool policy job opening for anyone interested in transportation. Can be fully remote (US only)! www.metroabundance.org/jobs/transpo...
Before I fried my brain with housing policy, I worked in downhill skateboarding. While I was mostly behind the scenes as a photographer and writer, I was also a sponsored rider with a pro board. We shot the ad for my 2014 model on the Mulholland Snake.
January 9, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Before I fried my brain with housing policy, I worked in downhill skateboarding. While I was mostly behind the scenes as a photographer and writer, I was also a sponsored rider with a pro board. We shot the ad for my 2014 model on the Mulholland Snake.
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My most immediate reaction to this is that "partnership over preemption" is an absolutely false binary, and one clearly being promoted by the Municipal League here as cover for their policy stance against statewide zoning reform.
Strong Towns' Chuck Marohn betraying all of his principles on behalf of the Michigan League in opposition to a pro-housing package of bills that would (among other things) legalize duplexes and ADUs, reduce parking requirements, and speed up permitting. This guy has completely lost the plot.
January 9, 2026 at 8:53 AM
My most immediate reaction to this is that "partnership over preemption" is an absolutely false binary, and one clearly being promoted by the Municipal League here as cover for their policy stance against statewide zoning reform.
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Chuck Marohn is a conservative who believes that preserving local control over land use is more important than quickly ending the housing crisis. www.maxdubler.com/blog/2025/11...
January 9, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Chuck Marohn is a conservative who believes that preserving local control over land use is more important than quickly ending the housing crisis. www.maxdubler.com/blog/2025/11...
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His critics within the YIMBY coalition were correct.
Strong Towns' Chuck Marohn betraying all of his principles on behalf of the Michigan League in opposition to a pro-housing package of bills that would (among other things) legalize duplexes and ADUs, reduce parking requirements, and speed up permitting. This guy has completely lost the plot.
January 9, 2026 at 3:55 AM
His critics within the YIMBY coalition were correct.