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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 🏳️🌈
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Max Dubler 🏳️🌈
@maxdubler
City planner doing housing policy at @cayimby. More active on Bluesky. he/him
San Francisco, CA Katılım Kasım 2012
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In housing policy, "Affordable Housing" is a technical term that refers to means-tested subsidized housing for low income households.
For context, only 4% of the housing in California is Affordable Housing and about 85% of low-income renters live in market rate housing.
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The main barrier to subsidized affordable housing for poor people is the availability of funding.
The main barriers to broad housing affordability for everyone are zoning and permitting that prevent market rate developers from building new homes for the middle class.
Fighting Fascism Podcast@FightFascismPod
"Most of the abundance bros seem not to understand housing finance at all. They're so fixated on an anti-regulatory tirade, which raises suspicions about who they're fighting for." Check out our latest episode for more spicy takes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-…
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Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 retweetledi
LAT pic of the crowd who hissed and booed multifamily housing near em at last nights Sherman Oaks HOA debate. Notice anything?
This group is almost all 65+ yrs old. They own multimillion dollar property w/ artificially low taxes bc SOHA played a major role in Prop 13 in 1970s.
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People just assume that the people in charge of how we build our cities must be experts know what they are doing, and that these standards must be informed by rigorous cost-benefit analysis. This very much is not the case!
Lindsay Loves Cities@LindsayJS
Transportation experts say the same thing about road design rules-- a lot of it was made-up by auto companies decades ago and makes no sense. We have so little understanding of how poorly our streets perform for through-put: some *actual* traffic counts show an intersection on a 3 lane road gets 500 cars through/hour. The manuals tell us it's >5000 -- but irl the intersections have so much friction (turning, stopping/starting), actual through-put plummets, and we end up with grinding congestion.
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Districts are closing schools! bostonglobe.com/2026/03/13/met…
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I love that NIMBYs still trot out the "overcrowded schools!" line in places where enrollment is at 30 year lows and districts are closing schools for want of students to teach.
ill@illB0S
@johnreardon68 @maxdubler The only thing this law has done is put heavy strain on local infrastructure. Added traffic everywhere. Schools that are overburdened and can’t keep up with the influx of new residents. Tax overrides for everyone else to fund the necessary improvements. And housing costs still up
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@illB0S @johnreardon68 Massachusetts schools are at their lowest level of enrollment in 30 years and many schools are considering closing schools because they don't have enough students. bostonglobe.com/2026/01/09/met…
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@johnreardon68 @maxdubler The only thing this law has done is put heavy strain on local infrastructure. Added traffic everywhere. Schools that are overburdened and can’t keep up with the influx of new residents. Tax overrides for everyone else to fund the necessary improvements. And housing costs still up
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This gentleman perfectly explains why planning mandate fair housing systems that preserve local control do not work and state legislatures should directly upzone: bad-faith NIMBY cities will always pretend to plan for housing on land they know will never actually get developed.
Jonathan Berk@berkie1
On its third attempt tonight, Marblehead Town Meeting approved an “MBTA Communities–compliant” district largely centered on the 125-year-old Tedesco Country Club, meeting 3A requirements on paper while all but assuring no new housing would be built. This comment says it all.
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So-called "inclusionary zoning" is bad.
build mixed use taco-houses 🌐🥑@yimbyism
The most effective welfare programs serve to mitigate extreme downside risk. Inclusionary zoning, in contrast, offers a few people tremendous upside and nothing to everyone else. It is the precise opposite of how a welfare program should be designed.
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@goodideasdottxt @Quesly2 Very "10yo Soviet gymnast in the Olympics" vibes.
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@Quesly2 i just don’t count vert tricks until post puberty. of course you can spin a million times you way 80 lbs
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I think my problem with the little kid vert skating is its like travel baseball, like the talent of the kid is extremely obvious and should be celebrated but i'm going to side eye the parents if a kid in u9 has a curveball like Clayton Kershaw
Redd@ReddCinema
just in case y’all want to see this 9 year old demon land three 900s back to back to back 😮
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Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 retweetledi
The worldshaking anti-YIMBY datapoint is...a claim that the number of people who move to your metro has a direct and extremely tight relationship with the number of houses permitted in that metro
Hal Singer@HalSinger
Figure IX shows that San Francisco's and Houston’s home quantity growth are almost exactly what one would expect given growth in population. “The key point is that with multiple margins of housing demand, unit supply curves may look very different depending on the composition of demand and **irrespective** of a city’s regulatory environment.”
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@BeckIvrsn @KenjiCapital This is much more of a Thing in New England, where schools are funded at the local level.
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@KenjiCapital It’s insane to me how as soon as there’s a housing need *for old people only* it just sails right through. Insane.
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The biggest debate in Oakland right now:
Replace Trader Joe’s…
With a 31-story tower?
That’s the proposal in Rockridge:
• 400+ units of senior housing
• Transit-oriented site
• No grocery store replacement planned
One of the most popular stores in the neighborhood…
vs.
One of the biggest housing proposals it’s ever seen.
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@LaddSoftball Nonsense. Local governments derive all of their power from the state.
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@maxdubler States should not have control of towns
Just like Governments should not have control of individuals.
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Many of the rules governing how your city is built are based on pseudoscientific nonsense.
Chris Goldammer@floor_per_area
Minimum Parking Requirements are based on statistical analysis, provide precise estimates, and even include R^2. So let’s look at that “science”. (Examples from Shoup, The High Cost Of Free Parking — read this if you haven’t!)
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Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 retweetledi
The argument is that adding housing stock doesn't matter wrt to rents. If that's true then reducing housing stock similarly shouldn't matter wrt to rents. Since supply doesn't matter and all...
So we can safely demo 30% of NYC's, LA's, SF's housing stock and turn the sites into a public park without negatively affecting rent levels in these cities.
Amirite?
Hal Singer@HalSinger
I get a bunch of tweets (or dunks) from Abundance Grifters, constantly auditioning for funding from developers or investors, who assert—often by pointing to a city or two in Texas—that deregulation is the key to making housing more affordable. Yet this recent San Francisco Fed study, released in February 2026, contradicts the abundance thesis. Because the study is a bit technical, I thought I’d break it down for you. 🧵
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@big_pedestrian Downtown will never compete with a strip mall on ease of driving and parking; and it should not try to.
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Abundant, free parking and parking minimums are one of the most studied, well understood policies in land use. They are universally derided as destructive to vitality, safety and quality of life wherever they are implemented. I close w/ a quote from the great Donald Shoup:
Rob Boyd, Esq@AvonandsomerRob
Perhaps if councils made car-parking free in town centres people wouldn't go to retail parks and shopping malls?
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Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 retweetledi
YIMBYs have made major progress on zoning and permitting, but government fees and mandates make even many approved projects too expensive to build.
asteriskmag.substack.com/p/if-yimby-is-…
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@imthewalruz I think you would agree that state ADU and JADU law has been very successful.
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@maxdubler I think you would agree that SB9 has resulted in very few actual builds
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@yinyang_yo_ We already have a building code freeze until 2031.
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Why I don't take many CA conservatives seriously with housing. They are clueless about what it takes to boost starter homes and negatively polarized against state preemption
Unless you override a local govt's minimum lot sizes and setbacks, we won't get more starter homes
Steve Hilton@SteveHiltonx
🚨 NEW: My plan to build STARTER HOMES in California so young people won't have to move out of state for the dream of owning their own home and starting a family. - Cut fees and regulations for starter home construction - No state income tax on starter home profits - Fast track approval, enforceable timelines - Governor's Expediter to unblock delays - Five year freeze on new housing regulations - Starter Home Loan Program for first time buyers Read the plan below 👇
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