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…

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…

@trippwhitbeck @me_idealist @daveweigel @damintoell not for lack of trying! thefire.org/news/lawsuit-e… washingtonpost.com/investigations… bbc.com/news/articles/…

@me_idealist @daveweigel @damintoell A dictator, you say? Well, then, why would you post this so free from anxiety? It's because he's neither "fascist" nor a "dictator." If he were, you wouldn't post this with such ease

“Fuck Trump. Vote Juliana.”

@WallStreetApes best of luck raising a family when all of the 4-5 bedroom homes are occupied by 75 year olds with $500/yr in housing expenses, or convincing cities to build houses when they are a cost center

Chad Bianco announces if he wins the race for Governor of California he will end property taxes He says - When you pay off your home, property taxes will end - If you turn 65, no more property taxes Vote Red California

@Alan24_Cuevas if you let BART develop 20 story towers around its stations in Lafayette, Orinda and Daly City and rent out the homes at mostly market rates then the financial picture would probably not be as bleak. but BART is not the reason this is not feasible.

@SFBART @Steve_Glazer @rachelswan @grok what is feasibility of Bart being sold to a private enterprise who can manage it to a level on par with Tokyo?

Scare tactics! Where are the serious interim steps to curb costs including schedule efficiencies and curbing the exorbitant staff salaries? BART is making plans for its own death — a doomsday scenario it says could come in just years sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl… via @rachelswan

@Alan24_Cuevas tokyo’s model works because they own a ton of land around the stations that they rent productively and also have the density to make frequent passenger rail work. BART, which has one of the highest farebox recovery ratios of any train in the country, has neither of those.

Opposition to a proposal to build 422 townhomes in Shadelands is being driven by residents of the Viamonte senior living development, which was itself controversially approved in 2014. walnutcreek.granicus.com/GeneratedAgend…

No investigation of the 78 year old's faulty software or investigation into hardware designs in the car or training that could prevent this kind of problem. But she was back on the road a year later

In 2021 a volunteer crossing guard at a Lafayette school was hit and killed by a 78 year old driver who most likely confused the gas and the brake and accelerated into traffic. Gas/brake confusion happens hundreds to thousands of times a year in the US sfchronicle.com/eastbay/articl…

@GeorgeL72139625 @marcjoffe @californiapost Buying small lot residential infill and converting it to landfill isn't an idea we've thought a lot about, I admit, because most people are not that stupid

@eb4everyone @marcjoffe @californiapost Naaa. I want maximum freedom. I’m just going to sell people the rights to dump a bunch of stuff on the land.

On their opening day. @californiapost nails the state's housing crisis. Ruling Democrats need to end their opposition to single family homes.

@GeorgeL72139625 @marcjoffe @californiapost Right… if you want to buy a valuable infill property for $40 psf and then do the engineering, DTSC permits, gas collection system, leachate installation, excavation, figure out how to get trucks in/out, to fill with 1 (?) acre of trash be our guest. Where is the contradiction.

@eb4everyone @marcjoffe @californiapost Nobody said they were similar. Just using it to prove that you’re full of crap about wanting to give property owners “maximum freedom to homeowners.”

@GeorgeL72139625 @marcjoffe @californiapost I want to hear more about why you think apartments and landfills are similar though

@eb4everyone @marcjoffe @californiapost You said you want to “give property owners maximum freedom to do what they want with land they worked hard to buy.” But that’s not true, as my example proves. You only want to give them freedom to do what you feel is good and acceptable.

@GeorgeL72139625 @marcjoffe @californiapost You shouldn’t put words in my mouth. legalizing landfills in urban areas wouldn’t matter because the parcels are too small and you can’t get trucks in and out. Same for shelters… they cannot outbid MF developers for valuable land

@GeorgeL72139625 @marcjoffe @californiapost What do landfills and homeless shelters have to do with legalizing multifamily housing? Neither of the other uses can compete where land values are high. If you want to control what your neighbor does with their property, you should buy an easement from them or join an HOA.

@eb4everyone @marcjoffe @californiapost Wow that’s a professional response from an organization. And noted how you’re avoiding the question. Losers.

@GeorgeL72139625 @marcjoffe @californiapost

@eb4everyone @marcjoffe @californiapost So since you want to give property owners maximum freedom, can I convert my home into a landfill? Or turn it into a free sleeping site for homeless people - removing the locks and letting anyone come and go. I’m sure you’d be ok with that if I lived Nextdoor to you, right?

@marcjoffe @dinahgirl88 @californiapost And at e.g Haleena Place in Walnut Creek a developer used state density bonus law to build detached houses, as well as along Minert Road.

Making, enforcing, and tightening urban growth boundaries (like in Contra Costa) is tantamount to forcing people into apartments or out of the state. Thank goodness California Forever is going to thwart Solano's UGB by working with Suisun City on annexation. But I don't know if their plan includes single family residences.

@marcjoffe @dinahgirl88 @californiapost The UGB in Contra Costa County at least was approved by voters and any changes need to be approved by the voters. There’s still quite a lot of land inside the UGB that could support detached houses more densely. In Alamo the minimum parcel size is a half acre.