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@jrskis

Marin needs more housing.

Katılım Aralık 2008
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@wyattpate @ArmandDoma He says he could collect $144,000 in rent/year. Insurance for a single family home is much less - maybe $5,000? If it doubled in 5 years, like yours, it'd reduce his net $2,500 a year. Sure, it sucks to make less, but I'd still take the $136,000.
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Wyatt@wyattpate·
@jrskis @ArmandDoma You haven’t been seeing the insurance package prices multi-family buildings have been receiving the last few years. Our annual package on a 50yo, 38 unit complex went from $71k in 2020 to $150k in 2025.
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Armand Domalewski@ArmandDoma·
I don’t understand how people don’t get that if you cap rent control below inflation eventually it will cost more to maintain the building than you’ll make in rent
Graham Stephan@GrahamStephan

In Santa Monica, rent control has morphed into tenant ownership. If I rented it out, I would have faced: 1. A 0.5% rent cap (while my insurance went up 10% and labor went up 50%). 2. A ban on ending leases. 3. A $38,250 fee to move back into my own house!

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@bobbyfijan There are plenty of families. VCs just don't see anything managed by their wives as problems worth funding.
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Bobby Fijan@bobbyfijan·
And this isn’t “criticism” per se … it’s just obviously a limitation for people to opine confidently on the future of society, work and big human things who don’t truly understand the most basic human process: having and raising children Startups did really well by having people focus on problems that they know. But the reverse is also true … if you have no familiarity with an issue you have a very low chance (even with lots of customer interviews) of really being able to solve that problem And SF and Silicon Valley is an increasingly childless place.
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Bobby Fijan@bobbyfijan·
This is one of the reasons why startups and ideas that have come out of San Francisco tend not to be, practically, “family-friendly” … because people there not only don’t have kids, they aren’t even around them
Hot Aisle@HotAisle

Dwarkesh, Dylan and Sholto are all roommates. Even if nothing improper is happening, this can: * shape public opinion * move market sentiment * affect vendor reputations * drive investor behavior * influence purchasing decisions In a trillion dollar economy funding arguably the largest advance in human history, market shaping analysts are supposed to question each other, not live together.

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@StatisticUrban NIMBYism is not based on logic. It's based on a fear of change. That's a lot of lefty-ism, especially in the environmental world, that's just trying to stop change.
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@KrampusSnail @CSElmendorf @California_HCD Same, although Sausalito is the worse offender. If HCD lets Sausalito get away with revising it's already crappy Housing Element to retroactively prohibit the only project proposed to date, and trying to commission custom software to objectively measure view impacts.
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Chris Elmendorf@CSElmendorf·
Leg should nip this problem ⤵️ in bud by declaring that any court decision enjoining development of housing-element sites at HE densities triggers builder's remedy-- unless or until @California_HCD approves the HE as modified by court's decision.
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Anne Paulson@KrampusSnail·
@CSElmendorf @California_HCD For sure. But they should do it anyway, right away, because come on, the Housing Element is now facially non-compliant.
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@stacyfmitchell This is disconnected from the reality on the ground. Marin has successfully squashed virtually all development. Our largest developer is a non-profit provider of transitional housing. There are no rich developers here. Only rich homeowners that protest everything.
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Stacy Mitchell
Stacy Mitchell@stacyfmitchell·
Re-upping in light of all the YIMBY debate. If you don't think or care about power, or the details of how particular markets operate, then you easily end up being a tool of the powerful, no matter what you think your intension is.
Stacy Mitchell@stacyfmitchell

@ad_mastro ... but YIMBYism in my experience is often non-discerning and ends up helping rich developers drive through projects that net the biggest return (high-end towers) but are actually bad for the housing problem if you really analyze it.

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@mateosfo My foray into Marin school buses was so depressing. The amount people will cling to the status quo is shocking.
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@ballesteros_312 First, we need buses. My kids never had an option to take a school bus. If buses are provided, parents who opt to drive instead of take the bus should pay a fee. In Marin, it's backwards. Parents whose kids take the bus pay $500/semester. It's "free" to drive them to school.
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Carlos Ballesteros
Carlos Ballesteros@ballesteros_312·
How do we incentivize kids and their parents to take the bus to school? This morning drop off traffic is ridiculous and needs to be curbed
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@rieszspieces @ArmandDoma This looks to me like "student evaluations don't tell you how good the teaching was", not "student evaluations are better for easy teachers, and worse for good teachers".
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Armand Domalewski
Armand Domalewski@ArmandDoma·
the fact that students routinely give worse ratings to “tougher” teachers while “tougher” teachers routinely improve student learning outcomes more is a good example of how the “customer knows best” aspect of capitalism isn’t universally applicable
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Sam S@SammyShills·
@jrskis @stan_okl this is the centerpiece of the plot of Another Round, a damning story about alcoholism lmao
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@MarcussonSteve @stan_okl They were definitely having fun! But they also have special marks on their caps for throwing up and having to go to the hosptial to get your stomach pumped. That's a little messed up.
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@drvolts Plenty of Marinites have no problem embracing NIMBYism and and progressism. They support building affordable housing, even in Marin. Just not the project down the street. They all believe they have valid reasons and their opposition is not NIMBYism - it's just common sense.
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