East Bay for Everyone

Our comments on @Oakland's "Oakland for All" vision plan. Oakland needs a concrete plan, and responsible team, for delivering improvements to avoid repeating its past failures to develop housing and infrastructure throughout the city eastbayforeveryone.org/2025/08/20/oak…

@SFBayCityZen * for people who own homes in fire zones

Home insurance rates may go up 30%

The buried lede here is that this action drastically reduces the risk the public will be subsidizing the cost of rebuilding expensive homes in Malibu and Orinda and discourages future construction in high hazard fire zones. Good news for most of us sfchronicle.com/california/art…

The project would not cost close to this much had they been able to begin construction in 2018 or 2019. One good inflation hedge is just building stuff quickly

Congrats @EdenHousing on breaking ground on 130 affordable homes in Livermore. We were proud to advocate for it and it is a shame that the approval process took eight years. danvillesanramon.com/housing/2026/0…

Get involved with @eb4everyone to keep the train headed full steam ahead! eastbayforeveryone.org

Has anyone written about what Tom Steyer was like as a manager at Farallon Capital? Was it well run? Could he attract talented people? Were there labor lawsuits?

You can easily see this because the utilities in California that don’t have NEM subsidies or wildfire liability (Silicon Valley Power, PAUD, SMUD) are able to deliver power for half of what PG&E/ConEd can. Every gov candidate should get asked about NEM subsidies

California’s utility bills are uniquely high because of NEM subsidies and wildfire liability / related fallout. All of the other stuff is basically noise.

@RealFakeDave @jbillinson The car hits his tire, which sends the bike to the right, which sends the rider to the left.

@jbillinson Bike brain needs to be studied because why the fuck did the cyclist THROW themselves at the car - they were upright. and then.... lean LEFT into the car 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Car brain needs to be studied because this is a driver crossing a double yellow line around a curve on a two-lane road and they still have people defending them in the replies

Why is a heat pump more labor intensive to install than a natural gas heater? sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl… baaqmd.gov/~/media/dotgov…

Needs more articulation of the façade, major massing breaks every 50 feet along with a mixture of materials on the building frontage. We are also concerned about the front setback distance

1. 140 apartments proposed for 4 acre San Ramon shopping center 2. after NIMBY pushback, proposal lowered to 40 single family homes 3. Project is approved, NIMBY's sue anyway. 4. Judge sides with city/dev, NIMBY's must pay all legal fees. danvillesanramon.com/courts/2026/04…

City Council will be hearing the appeal tonight, likely around 7:30pm. No call in option but you can send a written comment or attend in person. walnutcreek.granicus.com/GeneratedAgend…

Walnut Creek's Shadelands residents are opposing the construction of 422 new townhomes, largely because of traffic concerns. But converting an office park to townhomes will take about 400 cars off the road at peak times every weekday.

Take a look at the historical multifamily production chart. The first half of the period, there's a lot of green. The second half of the period, a lot of red. Zoom in on the green mountains and you'll find federal policies carefully designed to make the line go up.

Last week three schools in SRVUSD were recognized as California Distinguished Schools. This week - teacher layoffs and budget cuts due to declining enrollment. Alamo/Danville/SR desperately need more homes. danvillesanramon.com/education/2026…

@CSElmendorf @NYUMarron this chart isn’t indexed for inflation, the mean US wage is up like 45% in the same time frame. they also added employees like extra police and new station staff. it’s not great but it also doesn’t seem horrific

Needed: 1. An @NYUMarron Transit Costs Project for operating expenses. 2. An explainer of the federal law that prevents transit agencies from economizing on labor costs. 3. Leadership from the Bay Area's congressional delegation.

@DavidMarkDC @EmersonPolling @CaliforniaICP They also polled the governor’s race

@EmersonPolling @CaliforniaICP Not the point here, but that's a photo of California's state Capitol in Sacramento — 384 miles from Los Angeles.

NEW: LOS ANGELES POLL with @CaliforniaICP Karen Bass 20% Spencer Pratt 10% Nithya Raman 9% Adam Miller 4% Rae Huang 3% 51% undecided emersoncollegepolling.com/california-202…

"rising housing costs since 1990 are responsible for 13 million (11%) children not being born, 51% of decrease in fertility from the 2000s to the 2010s, and a 7pp decrease in the share of 20-29 year olds that have started families" by Benjamin Couillard drive.google.com/file/d/1BK6jNy…

One way to constrain electricity price increases quickly? Get stuff off bills. In many states, we're loading up the rate base with social programs, but it's a regressive way to pay for them! We need more smart ideas! Found this @BorensteinS very useful. haas.berkeley.edu/wp-content/upl…