Jonathan Claybaugh

@dweekly Aloha!

Oh, hello friends! (Is X becoming a better place to reconnect with people we know?)

All of Congressman’s @RoKhanna’s financial disclosures are finally OCR’d and searchable online He hand-filed papers instead of using the electronic system to obfuscate the data, but I indexed them all here: rokhanna.money

@SapnaPatelAW @ProjectLiberal She literally doesn’t support more market rate housing. Given there are not 10s of billions available for government funded housing, that is de facto the most extreme NIMBY stance you can make.

@ProjectLiberal She's running on needing more than the free market in order to get housing built, not NIMBY platform.

🚨 OUTRAGEOUS: Connie Chan is running for Congress on an explicitly NIMBY platform. This is the exact opposite of what we need right now.

@stefanoscalia @dweekly @frank_smith1111 I did get some great espresso and gelato in a park last week while attempting to exercise in the heat. I can confirm it’s a fantastic benefit to the public!

@dweekly @frank_smith1111 @JonathanClayba1 Milan has this

This is the hard left in San Francisco.

Europe figured out concessions decades ago. Every park has a kiosk: espresso, pastry, maybe a spritz or a beer at 6pm. Small operator pays rent, city gets revenue, park gets foot traffic and eyes on the grass. Everyone wins. SF has 230+ parks and almost none of this. Dolores Park froze a Blue Bottle cart permit over community outreach complaints. Coit Tower took years of hand-wringing over a removable food kiosk (unsurprisingly: Peskin territory). Meanwhile we wonder why maintenance budgets are tight and parks feel empty at 7am. Give me a coffee kiosk in every major park. Let the concession help pay for upkeep. Let foot traffic take care of public safety. Create a third space — a square where people can meet instead of shouting at each other on social media. I’ll die on this hill. Photos from Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹

@AsterZephyrIsis This is a wildly ignorant take!

nerds who grew up playing Sim City gentrifying our world

The local San Francisco teacher's union has a senior member of leadership, Frank Lara the union's VP, who is a proud PSL member. If you wonder why San Francisco normie parents who want a solid non-ideological education don't trust the union - this is why.

@mateosfo That particular account has some very interesting takes...

I'm fully convinced that most San Francisco socialists are the downwardly-mobile trust funder children of Palo Alto millionaires and billionaires, because this👇🏼 is not actually a parody account. "Don't gentrify Palo Alto" is an amazing thing to say unironically.

@kane @RoKhanna Legend status achieved (again)

Rep @RoKhanna has been playing populist w performative policies like banning Waymo. Instead of Congress's electronic financial disclosures, he hand-files papers that are not searchable. I burned some tokens and OCR's all >1000 pages and >$300M of his finances! Site shortly.

fun fact -- we don't actually have to manhattanize SF! if we brooklynized SF, rents would go down, and if the Bay Area brooklynized, we'd be the undisputed greatest metro area in America and the world.

@MarinPolitical @lukeisandberg @ChozoOmnetra Can’t wait. Bringing the density and life. Glad you enjoy what you have up in Marin.

@lukeisandberg @ChozoOmnetra @JonathanClayba1 Here's the plan man: Enjoy your cell.

Connie Chan is right. We don’t need more market rate housing. Clearly no demand. There is no way this individual is driving up rent for people with less disposable income.

@mwfowlie I couldn’t disagree more.

@JonathanClayba1 SF is some of the most productive land in the world. When a self proclaimed “artist” moves in, in place of a tech worker, the entire world is worse off due to dead weight loss.

@JonathanClayba1 Pricing out people with less disposable income is a good thing. It minimizes dead weight loss. This is pretty much by definition and not up for debate.

@skaushik100 @MayorofSeattle Very informative write up, for those of us not actually in Seattle but interested in what is going on this is fantastic mini-journalism!

The @MayorofSeattle has proclaimed herself both a socialist and an urbanist. But does she have the political chops to reconcile these two distinct factions of Seattle's left, or the political strength to choose between them? So far, the answer appears to be no. Over the last few weeks, during closed door negotiations at City Hall, a quietly escalating dispute over a key housing policy proposal left the mayor struggling to keep warring elements of her base happy. She failed, throwing in the towel yesterday (while promising further rounds of stakeholder discussions), leaving behind a welter of recriminations and bad blood. Seattle's socialist mayor came into office in January openly allying herself with the rising tide of pro-density, build-more-housing-faster urbanist sentiment in the city. Promising to kick start housing production, she also embraced the label of "Seattle's urbanist mayor," and committed to go "Taller, Denser, Faster" on the comp plan. Then - in the most immediately impactful urbanist move of all - she quietly negotiated the outlines of a deal with private sector housing developers and the Housing Development Consortium (HDC), the org repping the affordable housing community, for an "MHA holiday," a two-year, 80% reduction in mandatory affordable housing fees developers are required to pay on their projects. With housing starts in Seattle having fallen off a cliff in recent years amidst rising construction and borrowing costs, along with the developers the pro-housing urbanist/abundance left was eager to advance the proposal, which was expected to unlock the construction of at least 30 new housing projects across the city stalled in the pipeline because they no longer pencil. They believe (correctly) that increasing housing supply is the key to unlocking housing affordability, and the only way to do that at requisite scale is by encouraging the great engines of the private capital markets to invest locally in building housing. But in the last few weeks the old school anti-capitalist, anti-developer cohort of Seattle's more Jacobin left intervened in the negotiations. They ardently back public and social housing, but see development of private housing as a net negative, harming poor and minority communities by driving displacement and gentrification. They sharply ramped up pressure on the mayor, telling her she would be betraying her socialist base by signing off on the deal, and handing her an expanding list of further concessions they told her she needed to wring from the developers, including carving out swaths of the city from the MHA holiday and capping the number of buildings that would benefit. As they kept moving the goalposts the negotiations began to spiral, before finally collapsing entirely, at least for now. Yesterday afternoon, after the anti-capitalists got HDC to abruptly flip its position and back away from the terms of the deal, the mayor blinked too, indefinitely shelving the holiday legislation that was slated to be transmitted to Council next week. It's a defeat for the urbanist left, but at best a pyrrhic victory for the socialist left, as the mandatory housing fees that are dedicated to affordable housing construction will continue to drop. The development community is furious, the internally divided and inconstant HDC has lost credibility, the YIMBYs are yowling their dismay, and the mayor's bet that she could demonstrate tangible affordability gains by increasing near term housing supply looks lost. She is left trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together again, which is going to be far from easy going forward. We discuss what happened in more detail on the latest @RealSeattleNice, which should get posted tomorrow.

@rjrcapital I have many, many friends in the same position. At least you are “stuck” in a fantastic neighborhood!

@JonathanClayba1 i have a $2k apartment in duboce i can never leave at this point

@mil000 I admire the effort! No hate for people hustling to have a place to live. What I want is more of that (at all income levels)

lol this was my flyer that I put up a few weeks ago, literally 0 leads came from it. worth a shot tho

I just donated to Scott Wiener's campaign. Last weekend clarified the November race better than any op-ed could. Connie Chan has built a strange horseshoe coalition: conservatives who want San Francisco frozen in amber, cars, unaffordable housing and all, and a radical fringe that would rather perform than govern. Two very different aesthetics, one clear allergy to real progress. But beyond politics, Chan has shown a character problem. As a supervisor, she opposed police funding. Then, when her own neighborhood became ground zero for elderly Asian residents being robbed, she ran to London Breed, literally in tears, accusing her of starving the Richmond of police officers. The lack of self-awareness and accountability was stunning. Now, I've been critical of Scott before, particularly on public safety. His policies, particularly his support of prop 47, have had real flaws in my opinion. But unlike Chan, he's delivered meaningful legislation on housing, affordability, and public transit: things that actually shape how San Francisco functions. And last weekend, he showed something harder to register: character. Faced with genuinely hostile behavior, he didn't lose his composure or cave to the moment. He calmly removed himself from the situation, then came back to reaffirm his support for the very community that had confronted him. That's the kind of steadiness and moral compass sorely missing from a Congress that has grown increasingly servile to the President. Vote for @Scott_Wiener!

Fantastic local ed journalism from the Frisc highlighting the power of a good SFUSD Principal: thefrisc.com/how-soccer-has… . It also highlights that the Central Office is still run by incompetents and every rich school PTA should give a portion of what they raise to poorer schools

@realmrpomble It’s really bad here. But it’s the same way all over the country. I was raised on the wages of a welder and a public educator. Very very hard to do that now and we are all worse off because of it. I want to live in SF with all kinds of people, not just boring rich ones.

Hard to believe that a century ago my great-grandfather made a comfortable living as a plumber in San Francisco