Jonah Mann

This @WorksInProgMag article is a great complement to my paper w/ @dbroockman & @j_kalla on aesthetics & housing politics. Urban land assembly is like a magic wand for good-looking cities. Developers of big tracts internalize the positive spillovers of good design. 1/5

Hey @DanielLurie can you tell @SFPD that officers parking in a @SFMTA_Muni bus stop when they're eating as customers in a restaurant and not responding to a call is corrupt abuse of power?

Hey @starbirdchicken is your legal department aware that @mmmforkable has replaced the beautiful photos of your meals with AI-generated slop that totally misrepresents your product?

@peterldowns Congrats!!!

Today I ran 1 mile in 4:53.67. I was paced by my good friend Max, timed by my friend Isaac, and cheered on by friends and family — could not have done it alone. I trained ALL YEAR with their help, and my goal was to break 5:00. What a beautiful day! Alhamdulillah!

@cayimby Put a constitutional amendment on the ballot that lets Californians choose to vote either in the municipality where they work or in the municipality where they live.

What should be on our legislative agenda for 2025?

I wrote up my recommendations for the SF ballot. jonahmann.com/writings/sf-ba…

Next month I'll be chatting with each of the four main mayoral candidates at The Commons in Hayes Valley. Come! Oct 2 Peskin: lu.ma/vmt1fe73 Oct 10 Lurie: lu.ma/2vx8vua1 Oct 15 Breed: lu.ma/rhuf5kgt Oct 23 Farrell: lu.ma/azsyshcr

@JomboyMedia Robert Person (a pitcher!) did something similar in 2002

In just three innings, Pavin Smith has a three-run homer and now a GRAND SLAM off Justin Verlander!

@TheOmniZaddy Fall of Civilizations, especially the episode about Carthage

Cannot believe I am doing this but…any podcast recommendations? No talking about generic news, politics, pop culture. Niche topics and deep dives, edutainment would be great, but I also enjoy comedy/storytelling if it’s good. When I watch YouTube I enjoy Veritasium

Parking requirements ruin cities.

I wrote up my voter guide for the March 2024 election. jonahmann.com/writings/sf-ba…

Hi NYC friends I will be in New York this week. Want to meet me at the UN at 3:30 on Tuesday 10/24? I will be handing out this flyer I made (just the 1st 2 pages, one double sided sheet): docs.google.com/document/d/10R… Feel free to add suggestions or comments.

When your dad is currently the coolest person on the planet

"We have a housing policy that unnecessarily impoverishes us all so therefore we must have an immigration policy that unnecessarily impoverishes us all to compensate" continues to be one of the worst ideas gaining popularity across the world.

I met Senator Diane Feinstein once, in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. She had just recently been assigned to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (in 2001), and it was in that capacity that she had a senior staffer from the committee ask me to come to Washington DC to brief her on Iraqi WMD and the allegations being made by the Bush administration that Iraq continued to possess them. We met in a secure conference room in the Capital building—me, the Senator, and a half dozen staffers and aides. It was a polite, professional affair, with the Senator asking questions and taking notes. Eventually she confronted me—“Your position is causing us some difficulty. You are making the US look bad in the eyes of the world.” I replied that my analysis and the underlying facts were rock solid, something she agreed with. I said that while I knew she couldn’t reveal sensitive intelligence, if she could look me in the eye and say she has seen unequivocal proof that Iraq retained WMD, I’d shut up and go away. She looked at her retinue, and then me. “I have seen no such intelligence,” she replied. She thanked me for the briefing, and said it provided her with “food for thought.” On October 11, 2002, Senator Feinstein voted in favor of the resolution authorizing war with Iraq. Later, she said she had been misled by the Bush administration and bad intelligence. I will forever know Senator Feinstein as someone who had been empowered by the truth, and lacked the moral courage to act on it. The blood of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis stains her soul. I hope when she stands in judgment before her maker, she is punished accordingly.

More housing above stores. More apartments near transit. No more mandatory parking spots. No more red tape and regulation holding back homes for New Yorkers. This is the plan for a little more housing in every neighborhood: HousingOpportunity.nyc

Big changes ahead for San Francisco as the state is stepping up to ensure we meet our housing goals. Read the latest from @anniefryman on Senator @Scott_Wiener's Senate Bill 423. sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

"We have a housing policy that unnecessarily impoverishes us all so therefore we must have an immigration policy that unnecessarily impoverishes us all to compensate" is both flat-out wrong and one of the worst ideas gaining popularity across the world.

This is the leadership we deserve! Thank you @AndyKimNJ !

People should sometimes be incentivized to relocate or move into a smaller home.