mars
@marsargostan.bsky.social
from LA 🌈
forced to think about housing and transportation way too much
forced to think about housing and transportation way too much
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Will, is there a single place in the country where the base zoning allows for multi family development and yet the only thing that is built is single family homes ? Does that happen anywhere at all ?
November 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Will, is there a single place in the country where the base zoning allows for multi family development and yet the only thing that is built is single family homes ? Does that happen anywhere at all ?
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There’s a wide open lane in the upcoming LA mayoral election for someone is determinedly pro-housing and anti-ICE.
After failing to stop a major state housing bill from becoming law, Los Angeles leaders are turning to plan B: Delaying Senate Bill 79's implementation and pushing for unspecified legislative changes next year. My dispatch for @politico.com Pro subscribers subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
POLITICO Pro: Los Angeles failed to defeat a major housing law, so it's turning to Plan B: Delay, delay, delay
A report from the city planning department outlines strategies for pushing off many of the effects of SB 79 through 2030.
subscriber.politicopro.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
There’s a wide open lane in the upcoming LA mayoral election for someone is determinedly pro-housing and anti-ICE.
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We need to abolish the senate so bad.
“Um well there aren’t even any Senate Dem Press releases saying they support the deal”
Sen Tim Kaine: Hold my beer
Sen Tim Kaine: Hold my beer
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
We need to abolish the senate so bad.
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The “residential” building code exists in the first place for very bad reasons. Don’t ever forget that. Lawrence Veiller, addressing the NAHB in 1913:
October 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The “residential” building code exists in the first place for very bad reasons. Don’t ever forget that. Lawrence Veiller, addressing the NAHB in 1913:
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California, don't forget to vote on Prop 50. Turnout is expected to be low, and we can't afford to unilaterally disarm while rightwingers pack congress.
October 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
California, don't forget to vote on Prop 50. Turnout is expected to be low, and we can't afford to unilaterally disarm while rightwingers pack congress.
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Of all the housing charts not made by MMI, this one is my favourite. It shows how, despite rhetoric, housing shortages aren't a global phenomenon, but they do seem to be an Anglo-American one.
October 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Of all the housing charts not made by MMI, this one is my favourite. It shows how, despite rhetoric, housing shortages aren't a global phenomenon, but they do seem to be an Anglo-American one.
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Any form of media that involves an angry man telling an audience what to be angry about for several hours a day is probably not good for the human brain
October 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Any form of media that involves an angry man telling an audience what to be angry about for several hours a day is probably not good for the human brain
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Here’s the only thing getting built near the A Line in Karen Bass’s pro-housing Los Angeles: a car dealership garage. End this farce @governor.ca.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and sign SB 79!
October 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Here’s the only thing getting built near the A Line in Karen Bass’s pro-housing Los Angeles: a car dealership garage. End this farce @governor.ca.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and sign SB 79!
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I don't think @gavinnewsom.bsky.social understands he'll be writing his legacy with how he decides on SB 79. He entered office promising millions of new homes and he's close to leaving without having gotten anywhere near that goal. Signing SB 79 is the one serious step he can take.
October 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I don't think @gavinnewsom.bsky.social understands he'll be writing his legacy with how he decides on SB 79. He entered office promising millions of new homes and he's close to leaving without having gotten anywhere near that goal. Signing SB 79 is the one serious step he can take.
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"In one instance, a large homeowner’s association in Texas was found to have banned the use of housing vouchers by Black residents. That case had been referred to the Justice Department, but the referral was abruptly withdrawn by the new Trump appointees."
The Great Resegregation in housing www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...
Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
"In one instance, a large homeowner’s association in Texas was found to have banned the use of housing vouchers by Black residents. That case had been referred to the Justice Department, but the referral was abruptly withdrawn by the new Trump appointees."
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NYT: gone. WaPo: gone. LA Times: gone. CBS: gone. CNN: gone. MSNBC: going.
Plus almost all local newspapers & local TV news stations.
Plus almost all of social media.
The information environment is utterly dominated by the right & everything else is downstream of that.
Plus almost all local newspapers & local TV news stations.
Plus almost all of social media.
The information environment is utterly dominated by the right & everything else is downstream of that.
The Washington Post was the paper of my teen dreams -- whose courage helped convince me to chose a life in journalism. Monday's firing of the Post's moral beacon, Karen Attiah, proved that a newsroom I'd believed in is now dead to me
Why I finally ditched the Post www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Why I finally ditched the Post www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
The Washington Post has broken my heart | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, the best Democrat in America right now.
www.inquirer.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
NYT: gone. WaPo: gone. LA Times: gone. CBS: gone. CNN: gone. MSNBC: going.
Plus almost all local newspapers & local TV news stations.
Plus almost all of social media.
The information environment is utterly dominated by the right & everything else is downstream of that.
Plus almost all local newspapers & local TV news stations.
Plus almost all of social media.
The information environment is utterly dominated by the right & everything else is downstream of that.
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LADOT is testing concrete “Toronto barriers” in lieu of plastic bollards along 3rd Street between Main & Spring in DTLA.This could lead to concrete barriers for all protected bike lanes in the city. Let them know you support concrete bike lane barriers over plastic! mailchi.mp/streetsforal...
September 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
LADOT is testing concrete “Toronto barriers” in lieu of plastic bollards along 3rd Street between Main & Spring in DTLA.This could lead to concrete barriers for all protected bike lanes in the city. Let them know you support concrete bike lane barriers over plastic! mailchi.mp/streetsforal...
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This explains it better than I can
September 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This explains it better than I can
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whenever anyone seem to believe that homeless people that might be mentally unwell are divinely evil and they Must Be Taken Care Of to ensure societal peace, i just wish they’d ask themselves why they think homeless people want to be homeless
September 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
whenever anyone seem to believe that homeless people that might be mentally unwell are divinely evil and they Must Be Taken Care Of to ensure societal peace, i just wish they’d ask themselves why they think homeless people want to be homeless
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Oh a nice chart of zoned capacity over time. Now for NYC, not just LA!
letsgola.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/z...
letsgola.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/z...
September 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Oh a nice chart of zoned capacity over time. Now for NYC, not just LA!
letsgola.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/z...
letsgola.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/z...
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why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
August 31, 2025 at 9:56 PM
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
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Hipster “no-transplant”-ism is structurally identical to right wing “no immigrants”
August 31, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Hipster “no-transplant”-ism is structurally identical to right wing “no immigrants”
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it’s kind of annoying how complaining about transplants has become the new hipster xenophobia
August 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
it’s kind of annoying how complaining about transplants has become the new hipster xenophobia
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turns out a large majority of Angelenos want more apartments - even on single-family streets
www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/a-l...
www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/a-l...
A Large Majority of Angelenos Want More Apartments — Even on Single-Family Streets
This brief aims to shed light on the preferences of L.A. residents regarding building affordable multifamily housing. Mayor Bass has constantly scaled down ED1 due to 'pushback' but has yet to take a ...
www.lewis.ucla.edu
August 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
turns out a large majority of Angelenos want more apartments - even on single-family streets
www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/a-l...
www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/a-l...
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My housing politics is firmly rooted in our moral duty to welcome immigrants and refugees into our communities. Fulfilling that obligation requires actually building homes so these people can find places to live.
It was truly horrifying to hear from people in nonprofits and government trying desperately to house migrants in blue states over the last few years, who simply could not find any place to house them, because barely any new housing existed and prices were being driven higher and higher.
August 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
My housing politics is firmly rooted in our moral duty to welcome immigrants and refugees into our communities. Fulfilling that obligation requires actually building homes so these people can find places to live.
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It's not that I'm waiting for a perfect politician. My perfect politician would be running on Indigenous sovereignty and Landback, reparations for chattel slavery and imperialism, requiring companies to be owned by their employees, defunding the police, a 100% wealth tax above $100 million,
August 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It's not that I'm waiting for a perfect politician. My perfect politician would be running on Indigenous sovereignty and Landback, reparations for chattel slavery and imperialism, requiring companies to be owned by their employees, defunding the police, a 100% wealth tax above $100 million,
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Periodic reminder: not touching local control over single-family zones is straight out of the MAGA playbook. From page 511 of Project 2025:
August 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Periodic reminder: not touching local control over single-family zones is straight out of the MAGA playbook. From page 511 of Project 2025: