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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

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Posting for California YIMBY about housing, and for myself about skateboarding and cameras. Tradeoffs are real. he/him 📍 San Francisco

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @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

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 10h

Mostly foundations.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12h

Digital necromancy: not great!

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 12h

I can't stop thinking about this. We're pursuing zero fire risk in multifam, while tolerating much more in single-fam. People respond by building and living in single-fam, where they're exposed to not only one of the highest fire death risks in the developed world, but also TONS more car crash risk

Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 13h

Love this new report on buildings' relative fire safety from @alexhrwtz.bsky.social and Pew colleagues.

www.pew.org/en/research-...

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12h

You are off by a factor of one thousand.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12h

By law, health insurance companies have to spend at least 80% of their premium dollars on patient care.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12h

Doctor pay is a huge part of why healthcare in America is so costly. Where exactly do you think the money is going?

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12h

The American Medical Association works very hard to cap the number of medical school and residency spots so doctor pay will remain very high.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 13h

Literally just fund more residency spots.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 14h

Developers are not major donors to YIMBY organizations and causes.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 14h

Sure, go for it.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 14h

Like, sure, if the landlords are colluding on pricing in a way that violates state or federal law, go after them; but I wish people on the left were just a little more skeptical of this software company’s claimed ability to massively increase their customers’ profits.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 14h

I just do not find the antitrust people’s theory of the housing crisis very persuasive, whether on the home building side or the rental side. www.derekthompson.org/p/the-anti-a...

The Anti-Abundance Critique on Housing Is Dead Wrong

Antitrust critics say that homebuilding monopolies are the real culprit of America’s housing woes. I looked into some of their claims. They don’t hold up.

www.derekthompson.org

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 15h

This is not a policy lever that YIMBYs can easily pull.

Various YIMBY groups do, however, support efforts to offer below-market construction loans to housing developers and/or to reform condo deposit laws to make those homes easier to finance.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 15h

One reason I am skeptical of the various lawsuits is that many of them rest on an obviously-wrong assumption that landlords were pursuing 100% occupancy before RealPage came along and told them that the profit maximizing occupancy rate is about 95%.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 15h

The thesis of YIMBYism is that housing prices are set by supply and demand; so building more homes in the places people want to live can bring down prices.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 16h

You do understand that a ton of the equity in private equity is pension fund money, right?

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 16h

Two thirds of Americans own their homes and rental housing is an incredibly diversified and competitive market.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 16h

You need sufficient station density and bike balancing to manage that.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 18h

I, @holz-bau.bsky.social & @matthutchins.bsky.social are quoted here about WA State fire marshals trying to increase ADU access path widths to 5' (vs. 3' required for apt bldg corridors/stairs!). I note a lot of fire/bldg code opposition is cultural, not technical www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/07/f...

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 16h

Dude what the hell.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 17h

Scooters are cool too, particularly because they can be brought into your destination with you.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 17h

SB 79, signal priority for all Metro rail, two-way protected bike lanes on every arterial, and a dense electric bike share system would transform that city in a decade or less.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 17h

Nobody wants to admit that they like mayonnaise, either.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 17h

You can find lots of that shit on this website.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 18h

Nobody said that opposing the Israeli government is anti semitic.

We are saying the term “spiritually Israeli” is anti semitic.