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@NowAnonUSA Do you know how hard it is to evict someone? They fan destroy your home or terrorize your other tenants.

LA landlord requiring 4x income to rent. Does anyone have an idea why the owner would rather have it sit empty than accept a tenant with a more "standard" rent-to-income ratio?

This is wild. Senator Warren is now threatening apartment developers and investors, too, with a letter chock-full of misinformation. Such threats can scare off development capital, and they just shift to building warehouses or something else. But America's renters become collateral damage, with less supply and higher rents. This letter fails to note: 1) The role of these groups in adding new housing supply. 2) That America's affordability crisis is concentrated among lower-income renters -- very few of whom live in the properties owned by these groups receiving letters. They generally serve renters making $75k+ and spending 15-25% of income on rent. 3) It also falsely says large investors own 3% of single-family homes, which isn't true. It's 3% of single-family RENTAL homes, but only 0.5% of the total number of single-family homes. We gotta do better than this and start putting the focus on addressing the real issue: We need to build more housing of all types.

AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL OFFICIALLY PASSES MISSING MIDDLE ZONING!! Austin will create two new middle housing zones: - Middle Residential (MR): townhomes, cottage courts, single-stair - Mixed Use (MX): mixed use multifamily Huge win for better neighborhoods and more housing options!

@PippengerHarlo What

this should be a slam dunk argument for rent control. But YIMBYs will never admit that. It's an ideology in service of maximizing developer profits.

@RobotReorg @garrytan Building housing doesn’t cost us money.

@deciblast @garrytan No. WE shouldn’t. Anytime WE do anything, WE get ripped off.

In 2022, LA shut down a former hotel to convert it into permanently supportive housing for the homeless. Four years and $20 million later, the 32 units are still empty. This is the homeless industrial complex in action. gli.st/ck48h6ms

@ABC @kenyaw ❤️

Shay Taylor-Allen learned last week that she had matched with her first-choice residency pick, Yale School of Medicine — the very same hospital where she was born and later worked as a janitor. ABC News' Danny New has the story. abcnews.link/ZmFKePd

@Extrafriez @SlopHq The public shouldn’t pay to store private cars

@SlopHq That green lane eimanted street parking for people whom live there or eliminate a lane of traffic for cars.

calling a bike lane a "war on cars" when cars have 12 lanes and bikes have a stripe of green paint is the most impressive victim complex in modern american life and i say that as someone who has watched a lot of american life

@Cincinotus @sandwichhawk @SlopHq How about the sociopaths on the $50k car toys?

@sandwichhawk @SlopHq Everyone likes bikes when it's a couple at the beach on fat tire cruisers or a family on a rails-to-trails path. And everyone despises the lycra clad rich sociopaths on the 5,000 dollar carbon fiber toys.

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@CohenSite @DRand2024 eastbaytimes.com/2026/03/10/oak…

@CohenSite @DRand2024 Oakland city staff recommended a bunch of exceptions. Several city council members removed their areas from the exception. Unfortunately my district which has a bart station and is 7 minutes from downtown SF was not.

50 times as many NIMBYs have written letters to urge the council to adopt the worst SB 79 option than YIMBYs have written to support the good options. IF YOU LIVE IN LA... SPEND 2 MINUTES AND DO THIS RIGHT NOW secure.everyaction.com/eTBylMIrOEyeq7…

@wx_zoe I saw a whale next to the Bay Bridge east span on my run last Sunday.

Calling all Bay Area whale watchers/enthusiasts! If you live in San Francisco, you don't have to go far to see whales... There has been a couple Gray whales hanging out and spouting right next to Crissy Field Beach the past few days🐳 Head on over today to try and see them!

@LyndonTucker @daniel_w_owens That’s quick. At this point we can hand down large infrastructure projects to our children to complete. It’s almost multi generation to get anything done.

@daniel_w_owens need a 20 year EIR and public comment window first

Hey SF, let's get rid of this. It's ugly as fuck. It's elite, top-tier urban blight. Removing it won't adversely affect traffic. It's dangerous (people are injured and/or die underneath the freeway every year), and it blocks benefits we need (housing, transit, green space).

@Save_SF_2024 @enuffisenuffla @SF311 @DanielLurie This isn’t SF jurisdiction

@SF311 @DanielLurie why is this our tourist experience? Another drug dealer camping in Ft Mason 🤬

/autoplan just dropped on github.com/garrytan/gstack It's v0.10

@SlopHq @PGHNewLiberals My neighborhood has 30-50%+ non car commute. Providing a cheaper option for 30-50% of the population is good policy.

parking minimums add roughly $50,000 per apartment in construction costs and we pass that directly to renters in the form of higher rent. eliminating them is the closest thing to a free lunch in housing policy. just stop requiring the expensive thing nobody asked for

@daniel_w_owens Happens in Oakland too oaklandside.org/2025/03/31/lak…

Nonprofit housing developers in SF use tax funding to operate dysfunctional housing projects, where people die in their homes and aren’t found for weeks. This is tragic and infuriating, and SF’s model for tax funded supportive housing is obviously broken. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

This is a mind-blowing statement to see from a democratic socialist... Everyone is starting to see how counterproductive unfunded inclusionary zoning mandates are.