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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 10d

This whole project is just an embarrassment of San Francisco process. It started IN 2018 and now has less housing affordable or otherwise. In 2019 they envisioned 800 or 900 homes, with 50 percent affordable. Now? Only 100 affordable. That’s a failure www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/a...

Muni scales back Potrero Yard housing plan in light of S.F. transit agency’s budget issues

Facing a projected $307 million budget shortfall, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is ditching a plan to build 465 housing units on top of a new Potrero Yard in the Mission.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Sarah Rogers @serogers.bsky.social · 11d

I urge @governor.ca.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to sign SB79 & allow more housing at transit hubs - and stem the population loss that's going to lose CA 4 electoral votes in 2030 as TX and FL gain 4 EACH. Help people stay in CA and move to CA - and retain our political power! @cayimby.bsky.social

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Bobak Esfandiari @bobakesfandiari.com · 16d

"You shouldn't need a special handshake deal with Aaron Peskin to open up a business in North Beach"

- My man @ira.bsky.social giving 🔥🔥 public comment just now in support of @dannysauter.bsky.social legislative package to eliminate layers and layers of corruption from our planning code

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Sarah Rogers @serogers.bsky.social · 24d

The Sunset pushed all new/multifamily housing to other parts of San Francisco (mostly the east side) for decades. I find this belief that it should be able to operate in isolation silly. We live in a city, people! Local control is one of those things that sounds good but has disastrous outcomes.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 26d

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

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Sarah Rogers @serogers.bsky.social · Sep 10

Those interested in the experience can attend the one about the Family Zoning Plan tomorrow at 12:30pm in room 400 at City Hall - guessing it’ll be one for the ages

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Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social · Sep 10

There is nothing more radicalizing than an SF planning commission meeting

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Sarah Rogers @serogers.bsky.social · Sep 3

I believe a real city must be cheap enough to contain outsider art like the Beer Can House and/or the Orange Show www.full.orangeshow.org/beer-can-house

The Beer Can House | Houston

Over 50,000 Beer Cans were used to create The Beer Can House, one of the most iconic landmarks in Houston.

www.full.orangeshow.org

Sarah Rogers @serogers.bsky.social · Sep 2

I fly SFO-IAH & back regularly. There are times regular precheck only is faster, occasionally a LOT faster, but I think it’s 1/3 of the time based on my experience.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · Aug 25

Cannot be emphasized enough that anti-housing NIMBYs in places like California and New York are objectively working to support a durable MAGA hold on Congress and the presidency.

Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · Aug 25

It’s much harder to build housing in Blue states than it is in Red states.

So yes people are moving away from Blue states.

One more reason that addressing the housing shortage in NY and elsewhere must be an urgent priority.

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Darrell Owens @idothethinking.bsky.social · Aug 25

With the upcoming gerrymandering war, it's pretty clear that blue states who refused to build housing because it was turning red states purple just shot themselves in the foot big time.
darrellowens.substack.com/p/california...

California Housing Is Killing Democracy

The Gerrymandering War took a bad electoral situation for the Democratic Party in 2030 and made it much, much worse. All thanks to California's housing shortage.

darrellowens.substack.com

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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · Aug 23

BIG news: The California Democratic Party just endorsed @scottwiener.bsky.social’s landmark housing bill #SB79, which legalizes multifamily homes near major public transit statewide!

This marks a major shift in state politics: California Dems are *finally* embracing a party that builds!

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Sarah Rogers @serogers.bsky.social · Aug 21

Complexity + opacity + individual discretion => corruption (on display in SF as well)

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · Aug 19

“Los Angeles leaders are once again demonstrating their cowardice and failing their own constituents who desperately need more housing—and they’re doing it at the behest of LA’s wealthiest, most entitled voters, who have consistently blocked progress on housing affordability.” - @hanlon.bsky.social

California YIMBY Statement on LA City Council Vote on SB 79

Los Angeles, CA — Today the Los Angeles City Council voted to oppose SB 79, a state bill designed to expand affordable housing near major transit stops. In doing so, councilmembers repeated discredite...

cayimby.org

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · Aug 11

Another example that drives me nuts is when people propose thing like building "teacher housing" in cities that struggle to hire teachers. Just build more housing in general! I promise it's better than assigning particular blocks to certain professional castes!

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Sarah Rogers @serogers.bsky.social · Aug 9

I suspect them of misreading the parable of the sheep and the goats, interpreting goats as GOATS

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Aug 9

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 5

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · Jul 22

The overwhelming majority of San Francisco’s Victorian homes were built with facade elements that were mass produced in off-site factories and ordered from catalogs. Basically none of them were “hand carved.”

For some lovers of The City’s Victorian-era buildings — constructed in oblong shapes, defined by jutting turrets and bay windows, and adorned with hand-carved ornamentation — these new arrivals strike a jarring and at times unappealing contrast.

Now, as San Francisco considers a proposal backed by Mayor Daniel Lurie to rezone The City’s northern and western neighborhoods, some are asking whether the loosened zoning rules will open the floodgates to a glut of modern developments that will supplant the historic charm of The City’s older buildings.

Two structurally identical Victorian three-flats with different paint jobs.

Two structurally identical Victorian houses with different paint jobs.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · Jul 15

Is your job inherently evil?
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/when-do-yo...

When Do You Need to Quit Your Job?

How is "changing things from within" going for you?

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Sarah Rogers @serogers.bsky.social · Jul 2

Amazing work, @matthaneysf.bsky.social and @scottwiener.bsky.social! 👏

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Sarah Rogers @serogers.bsky.social · Jul 2

Spot on:

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

The impossible has become possible: we've passed a clean CEQA infill exemption. This is probably the most important thing California has done on housing in the present YIMBY moment.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · Jun 26

We're so close to fixing key drivers of California's housing crisis:
✅️ SB 79 would legalize apartments near transit.
✅️ AB 130 would end frivolous litigation against infill.
✅️ AB 253 + AB 1308 would prevent permitting/inspection delays.
➡️ Here's how you can help.

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